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The Art of Kung Fu Panda: 0

Author: Tracey Miller-zarneke
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

1 reviews
Sales Rank: 7161

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 10.3 x 1

ISBN: 1845769260
EAN: 9781845769260
ASIN: 1845769260

Publication Date: June 27, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Nicolas Marlet's illustrations make this book, a beautiful book but I do miss the earlier 'Art of' editions.... July 16, 2008
Firstly, I really cannot stress enough how beautiful Nicolas Marlet's illustrations are, he creates wonderful characters and anyone who loves character art cannot help but enjoy the mans illustrative comic talent. I would have bought the book alone for his drawings and if Dreamworks had had the insight to print all his sketch books relating to Kung Fu Panda I would have bought that also. I love his work, free and inspirational and anyone who can make others laugh in a few simple lines has a gift. So I highly recommend this book to all you illustrators and animators, a beautiful drawing can say more about how a character is to be animated than any text and Marlet's work must have been very influential to the films evolution.

Ever since I was a kid, I'd buy an animation art book almost yearly. The Art of The Lion King was probably the first art book of this type I ever had given to me and it kindled my love of animation art all the more, finally in these pages were beautiful concept illustrations, story board art works, inspirational paintings and final prints from the film, all of which were bound up in beautifully presented cloth covered large scale folio editions (originally printed by Hyperion). Books like these emphasised the storytelling process the Disney studios believed in and presented imagery which spoke volumes above the text, since the key to all great artistic works be it in animation, illustration, theatre design or film is the artists ability to simply draw from life, observe it, relish it and understand it -- and from that process you have great storytelling, you need imagination naturally and that's the art part, how you see marks you out ........... these books just need to show us more art when the film was evolving as that is inspirational and they could be designed better.

This is a fine book but doesn't really live up to my expectations when compared to what came before. It is smaller, I can't see the point in printing images which are the size of postage stamps on these pages and I want to see more final, well chosen film prints and pencil, painterly, illustrations than any image which has a digital smooth feel, ultimately this lack texture and evokes little.

But buy the book for Nicolas Marlet's illustrations, they live up to the films impact!