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The Art of Spirited Away collects colour illustrations of Spirited Away for the first time in an English edition! This book includes paintings and designs from the new animated film from the director of Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke. Large-size, hardcover coffee-table book featuring artwork from the renowned animated film, Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Features commentary, colour stills, sketches, storyboards, and illustrations used to envision the rich fantasy world of the film. Also includes a complete English-language script.
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Hayao Miyazaki is the prominent director of many popular animated feature films. He is also the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, the award-winning Japanese animation studio and production company behind worldwide hits such as PRINCESS MONONOKE, HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE and SPIRITED AWAY.
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Beautiful! You get a real sense that you own something special when you get this. (Very exciting when it gets delivered to you in the big box too, it feels like christmas as a kid, all over again!)
Overall worth getting. It’s not gob smacking stunning, but still very very nice. Definitely worth the money if you’re a fan.
While the book follows the ethos that it’s just presenting the artwork, it does follow the films plot, in terms of where art is placed in the book… what I mean is, The car ride and the Chihiro getting lost artwork is near the start and goes through into the various scenes in the film, in order.
My favourite parts are the Character design pages, and the landscape watercolour like paintings, some of them look frameable for any art gallery.
The artist commentary is very interesting too; some inside info on their ideas while making the film included.
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a great book. Whether you are familiar with the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli or not, the work in this book cannot fail to impress. It leads you from an introduction by Miyazaki's, though his concept art (beautiful watercolour sketches) to the final backgrounds and character work including a script at the back. The layout of the book follow the narrative of the film, with introductions to the characters and locations along the way. A section at the back is devoted to the digital processes used during the making of the film and throughout the book there are short paragraphs from the artists about their experiences and thinking process (e.g, use of colour, architectural influence etc etc). The images in the book are incredible and allow you to study in detail the work and skill of the artists, as a student studying animation I find this book is an invaluable resource. I have bought other "The art of" books on other Miyazaki film, and this book lives up to their high standards (unfortunately the other books are only available from Japan, try Amazon.jp). I highly recommend this book to anyone even remotely interested in animation or the work of Miyazaki, good to see a hardback book at this price too. Cant recommend it enough.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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The first thing to strike one when opening this book is that the paper is high quality glossy art paper. This enables a very good standard of printing and colour definition which in the case of artwork from Studio Ghibli is useful to say the least.
This book complements 'Spirited Away' and reveals the beauty of the work that went into it. It's not a 'making of' or a 'illustrated version' as such but well worth seeing and reading. You'll learn a lot and it's very aesthetically pleasing. Recommeded in the extreme. Now buy everything Studio Ghibli has ever produced...
This book complements 'Spirited Away' and reveals the beauty of the work that went into it. It's not a 'making of' or a 'illustrated version' as such but well worth seeing and reading. You'll learn a lot and it's very aesthetically pleasing. Recommeded in the extreme. Now buy everything Studio Ghibli has ever produced...
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Wonderful.
I must asmit I was optimistic about this at first; because normally Studio Ghibli things are very expensive, but I have just seen it today and it is gorgious:) I am very pleased... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jay
Beautiful
An amazing book, been searching for something like this for awhile...
not been able to look at it all yet because I bought all three 'My Neighbor Totoro' & 'Howl's Moving... Read more
not been able to look at it all yet because I bought all three 'My Neighbor Totoro' & 'Howl's Moving... Read more
Published 12 months ago by C. Luk
WOWOWOW!!!
wowowow!!!
its like, i'm in a fantasy land, and like, everyones called chihiro, wow!
its like, i'm in a fantasy land, and like, everyones called chihiro, wow!
i like the details of how they animated bits, and i like the sketches of the bouncing... Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2003 by "s0349101"
Just saying
the last person said spirited away did not come to england but it did. It just was quite hard to find. They have two versions out. The original japanese. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2003
Breathtaking
This book provides some insight into the creation of one of the most beautiful and inspiring films NOT to have been distributed in the UK. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2003 by Mr. B. E. Bowen
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