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Summary: Great resource and inspiration for budding CG artists
Review: Personally, I think this book is great. It provided a lot of insight for the whole process about how they put together the film. Even people who didn't like the films' story can appreciate this book.
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Summary: Just by it for the beauty
Review: The only reason you'll want to by it is to have a wonderful collection of stills from the movie (and many that aren't from the movie). There's quite a bit of filler text (for example, the entire script from the movie takes 20 pages), but it's still chock full of pictures. Buy it for that reason and you'll be very very happy.
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Summary: Just by it for the beauty
Review: The only reason you'll want to by it is to have a wonderful collection of stills from the movie (and many that aren't from the movie). There's quite a bit of filler text (for example, the entire script from the movie takes 20 pages), but it's still chock full of pictures. Buy it for that reason and you'll be very very happy.
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Summary: A true work of art
Review: This book describes all process to create the movie Final Fantasy and is very well done and the illustrations are great. If you watched the movie, you must have this book.
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Summary: Not for animators
Review: This book is not for animators.Please dont make the mistake of buying this book if u are an animator.the book does not tell you how an effect was achieved nor does it gives away the inner secrets which square used.Whatever is mentioned here is what we alredy know.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book shows you the process from beginning to end, but unfortunately left out much of the middle. There are many rudimentary b&w sketches, then the next thing you knew, the characters are fully rendered, colored and lighted. Plenty about the concept and storyboarding and script (the entire script!) and which screw fits where and what material Aki's shoulder pads are made of, but heck, I don't care about that! I went to see this movie for the astounding CGI, and I bet everyone left the theater thinking, "How did they do that?" THAT'S what I want to see - the phenomenal artistry of this movie. This book gives you none of that. It's like, here's the concept, and look here - Bam! We have the final product. Wowee, isn't it so amazing how this little line sketch here has turned into this grand scene in the movie? Amazing, aren't we?Hello?!What happened in between? There are a few peeks here and there of how the artists drew and evolved the art, but the pictures were small and not much was devoted to this, very unfortunately. And for a picture book of this quality, I was surprised to see what poor quality graphics they had for some of the b&w pictures - you can actually count the pixels. Anyhow, it was disappointing. After reading it, my question of "How the heck did they do that?" remains unanswered. The only saving grace of this book is a little outtake at the end - the whole crew doing a Britney Spears routine. I got a chuckle out of that.
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Summary: Waiting a more detailed book... hurry up writers
Review: This is a great book for a great movie. Final Fantasy is a mark in the industry of games, and now in movies too.
Unhapply, the authors dont explain technical approaches, what is very important in a film like this.
But i have used it in my animation classes, and specially the roughs, sketches and scene previews have turn on the ligh over the head of my pupils.
I hope someone could write a book about analisys of the technical aspects of this mark in animation industry.
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Summary: Okay, I'm prejudiced but...
Review: Well, I worked on this film as a storyboard artist for a long time, so I was sure I would like the book and wasn't disappointed. Despite my built-in prejudices I found the book to be very high quality in every regard, from it's construction and printing to it's massive content, going from conception (& conceptual art) to the finished product that played on movie screens all over America. The book still hasn't arrived at my local retailers and was sold out at a kiosk after Siggraph 2001 but I pored over it's details in a display copy. Now I can't wait for my copy from Amazon.Com to arrive!
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Summary: I wouldn't waste the money on this...
Review: When you can easily look up how they made this movie on the net or on the DVD "Final Fantasy The Spirits Within", there is absolutely no need to pay ($$$)for this book whatsoever. Its just a way for BradyGAMES to get more money. The book doesn't really explain much or anything about the movie at all. I can't really judge much on this book. It may be in hardcover and have a lot of flashy pictures inside but again thats just mindless eyecandy. If you want to see the making of the game then simply go out and by the DVD or you can look it up on the net (...).
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Summary: I wouldn't waste the money on this...
Review: When you can easily look up how they made this movie on the net or on the DVD "Final Fantasy The Spirits Within", there is absolutely no need to pay ($$$)for this book whatsoever. Its just a way for BradyGAMES to get more money. The book doesn't really explain much or anything about the movie at all. I can't really judge much on this book. It may be in hardcover and have a lot of flashy pictures inside but again thats just mindless eyecandy. If you want to see the making of the game then simply go out and by the DVD or you can look it up on the net (...).
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