The Art of The Incredibles

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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: First of all, if you love the movie, you just have to get this book. It's a beautiful companion to the film. It's filled with beautiful full-color art from the production of The Incredibles. This art is strongly influenced by 60's era design principles. There is a smooth simplicity to the designs. Also, the use of color is a joy to see. For those who are looking for art from the process of animation, you might be disappointed, because there is none. You wouldn't want to look at process art for computer animation anyway. You'd just see a bunch of cubes and spheres on a computer screen. This book is for those who relish the dream that occurs in the formation of the story and in the development of character and scene designs. To see this pre-production art is an inspiration, and gives insight into what might have been, and how it had developed in the early stages of production. As for text, there isn't much, and a little more would be better. Hopefully we'll get more in depth info on the bonus disk of The Incredibles DVD. In the meantime, all Incredibles fans should pick up this beauty.

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Summary: A Feast of colour and style !!!
Review: I just recieved my copy of this 3rd Pixar-Art-Book in the series (The Art of Monsters Inc and the Art of Finding Nemo were also designed to the same style and dimentions) and Im more than happy!!!

Again there are tons of conceptual drawings, collages and pencil-sketches. Litterally an explosion of colours and talent! The text takes only a small part of the book which is great cause all of us want to see the conceptual artwork (we can always learn tons of info and trivia when the Special DVD set will be out).

Looking at the countless colour studies, again it is Mary Blair that sparkles behind them. It is so touching to see that this new generation of artists, that work with the latest digital technology have so much education and have studied the work of Mary Blair in such a depth that that to anyone who loves her work it almost feels like a Tribute to her amazing sense of colour and design (just check the drawing of the island and you'll see how similar is to the Neverland island of Peter Pan).

Personally I feel that this book is a necesary companion to the movie! All these treasures of the early conceptual drawings reveal another angle of Pixar, a more delicate and sofisticate side, that with the final digital artwork it can't be visible...

Congratulations to this fantastic team of artists and to their boss who give them the Freedom and the time to create all this awesome inspirational artwork!!!
I never saw something similar since Walt Disney left this planet.

The bookbinding is perfect (the Incredibles Logo is embosed to the front cover under the dust-jacket) and the printing is bright and great! A real 5-star artbook!!!

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Summary: the movie will be great but I can't reccomend this book
Review: Let me start by saying I am an art student and I only buy these "Art of" books to learn to learn from them. The Art of the Incredibles was a INCREDIBLE let down. This has to be some of ther worse preproduction art I have ever seen. Of the 3 "Art of" Pixar books, this is definitely the worse.

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Summary: Perfect example of conceptual art
Review: This book is all about art. It really showcases the fun the people up at pixar have developing and refining the story and look of what we see on the screen.

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Summary: Not as good as the others
Review: This is an unusual book. Unlike other "Art Of" books, even in the Pixar line, this doesn't show a progression of development, or even have much of a text description of what they're showing. Instead it seems to be the earliest pre-production art, long before they applied the ideas to the digital results.

The art is extremely stylised in a very sixties fashion, unfortunately a style I have always found ugly and unpleasant. The colours and shapes are extreme and haphazard. I can see how they apply to the finished film, but that aspect isn't really shown very well in the book.

There's too much missing from this book for me to really recommend it unless you're a completist or an Art major who likes that retro era style.

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Summary: Lots and lots of fun
Review: _The Art of The Incredibles_ is a lot of fun, it's even more fun after you've seen the movie and can read this book to learn about how they did what they did and why they made the artistic choices they made. The descriptions of the creative process and the drawings showing the evolutions of the concepts and characters in the movie are fascinating and often amusing (such as the various conceptions of the character of Edna Mode). If you're a fan of the movie you'll really love this book.