- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Disney Editions (19 Oct 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1423131495
- ISBN-13: 978-1423131496
- Product Dimensions: 30.7 x 25.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 221,940 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Art of Tron: Legacy is more of a visual companion than an art book. Whenever there's "art of" somewhere in the book title, it sets people up with certain expectations. This title definitely sets up the wrong type of expectation, at least to me.
About half the book is concept art and the other half is just film stills, and even if it's not exactly half, it feels that way.
Much of the concept art are actually the finalized designs. You won't see much iterations. It's like they nailed the design of the Light Cycle bike with the first try. Same applies for characters and environments. And the Light Jets are missing.
The selection of films stills included is also questionable, but I'm glad for the most part they look stunning visually, especially the ones that are showing more of the Tron world.
This book should still appeal to Tron fans. I'm not so hot about the book, but I've two colleages (fans of the film) raves about it.
As an art book, I'll give it 3 stars. As a visual companion or picture book, 4 out of 5 stars.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
About half the book is concept art and the other half is just film stills, and even if it's not exactly half, it feels that way.
Much of the concept art are actually the finalized designs. You won't see much iterations. It's like they nailed the design of the Light Cycle bike with the first try. Same applies for characters and environments. And the Light Jets are missing.
The selection of films stills included is also questionable, but I'm glad for the most part they look stunning visually, especially the ones that are showing more of the Tron world.
This book should still appeal to Tron fans. I'm not so hot about the book, but I've two colleages (fans of the film) raves about it.
As an art book, I'll give it 3 stars. As a visual companion or picture book, 4 out of 5 stars.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
So, here I was, hoping for a great artbook full of pre-production sketches, diferent types of concept art pieces and some in set photos just to see how it all related in the end - not much, just enough. All and all lots of process material so we can understand (and even more enjoy) how they went from A (the original TRON movie) to B (the final product which is TRON: Legacy).
Definitely what I didn't get.
You'd expect that they had enough source material in the "art studios around the world" so they could make an artbook with all the forementioned above... And not what is basically a scrapbook with loads of blocks of text and (also with an oversized font which didn't help to sell their case either), and, guess what, tons of pictures of the movie itself... I know this to be true since there were more than enough sketches/technical drawings/artist renderings of lightcycles around the web during the pre-release of the movie to prove it.
Hell... It was those same sketches that led me to buy that thing whithout bothering to search the web for previews of the book or whatever, to skim it and see if it was worth it. So the joke is on me.
I'm sorry people, but as a professional of the games and animation industry, when I buy an Artbook I expect to see exactly that. A book with art and not a scrapbook... Which is exactly that what it actually is. A glorified production scrapbook... I wish to see processes, studies, ideas, dead ends, and just enough text to relay why they're that.
To give you an idea of what I consider to be one of the best movie artbooks to this day - that I know of -, I give the example of the one they made for "Kung Fu Panda I". It had most of the references and evolution of the design of the characters and the world, examples of how the diferent characters came to be and were based of.
This? This thing was just slapped together at the last minute to make an extra buck; it feels rushed as the making of the movie was - described by them in the artbook, everything in the art department was rushed, hence the "army" of studios. I'm sorry folks, but that's what it is...
And don't tell me that they wanted to keep most of it enclosed so that it wouldn't ruin the movie experience. JUST PUBLISH THE DAMNED THING LATER AND GIVE IT TIME TO SORT GOOD MATERIAL FOR PUBLISHING!
The book sucks.
Definitely what I didn't get.
You'd expect that they had enough source material in the "art studios around the world" so they could make an artbook with all the forementioned above... And not what is basically a scrapbook with loads of blocks of text and (also with an oversized font which didn't help to sell their case either), and, guess what, tons of pictures of the movie itself... I know this to be true since there were more than enough sketches/technical drawings/artist renderings of lightcycles around the web during the pre-release of the movie to prove it.
Hell... It was those same sketches that led me to buy that thing whithout bothering to search the web for previews of the book or whatever, to skim it and see if it was worth it. So the joke is on me.
I'm sorry people, but as a professional of the games and animation industry, when I buy an Artbook I expect to see exactly that. A book with art and not a scrapbook... Which is exactly that what it actually is. A glorified production scrapbook... I wish to see processes, studies, ideas, dead ends, and just enough text to relay why they're that.
To give you an idea of what I consider to be one of the best movie artbooks to this day - that I know of -, I give the example of the one they made for "Kung Fu Panda I". It had most of the references and evolution of the design of the characters and the world, examples of how the diferent characters came to be and were based of.
This? This thing was just slapped together at the last minute to make an extra buck; it feels rushed as the making of the movie was - described by them in the artbook, everything in the art department was rushed, hence the "army" of studios. I'm sorry folks, but that's what it is...
And don't tell me that they wanted to keep most of it enclosed so that it wouldn't ruin the movie experience. JUST PUBLISH THE DAMNED THING LATER AND GIVE IT TIME TO SORT GOOD MATERIAL FOR PUBLISHING!
The book sucks.
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book for my son who's really into Tron right now (don't know why the plot was very weak, although visually it did have a beautifully liquid lustre about it).
Like other reviewers I thought that there would have been a bit more substance with greater insight into the actual making of the movie and with way more pictures of the concept behind the visually stunning designs of the movie, plus would it have been too much to ask to have 3D sections as well (it was a 3d movie after all).
like I've stated though the book was for my son and he loves it so I awarded 3 *'s, if it was for myself it would have gotten 1 *. Tron legacy, a good movie just not a fantastic one, the same goes for this book.
Like other reviewers I thought that there would have been a bit more substance with greater insight into the actual making of the movie and with way more pictures of the concept behind the visually stunning designs of the movie, plus would it have been too much to ask to have 3D sections as well (it was a 3d movie after all).
like I've stated though the book was for my son and he loves it so I awarded 3 *'s, if it was for myself it would have gotten 1 *. Tron legacy, a good movie just not a fantastic one, the same goes for this book.
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A very classy visual companion,
... and I'm entirely OK with Parkas comments.
Then again, the book and Music together are better than a movie with an empty story.
Then again, the book and Music together are better than a movie with an empty story.
Published 15 months ago by Dominique Gantois
The art of Tron Legacy
Watching the Tron Legacy movie was eye candy in motion for me. I was totally seduced by how beautiful they made the new Tron world look & feel. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Stick900
Pretty Good
More of a 'production' and 'thought process behind decisions' book as opposed to just a flurry of artwork, and there is no real 3D art in there either (which I personally... Read more
Published 17 months ago by DWalker
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