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After "Toy Story", "Ratatouille", "W.A.L.L.E", and other blockbusters, where else could Pixar Animation Studios go but UP? Their latest film is a heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age story about a 78-year-old widower. It features Carl Fredrickson (voiced by Ed Asner).
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Tim Hauser has been a writer, creative executive, and producer in animation for over 20 years, with positions at Walt Disney, Warner Bros. and Fox. A former animator, Tim is an alumnus of the CalArts Character Animation Program. Pete Docter is the director of UP and Monsters, Inc.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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If you're still wondering about the real story of Pixar's Up, this book provides very good clues (or spoilers). I'll just say it's about Carl, the old man, going on a journey in search for meaning to his life. The directive from the top was to make Up "the studio's most emotive film to date".
Tim Hauser has provided a good writeup into design style and production process of the movie. There's talk on the story arc, themes, the characters and a bit on the artistic side of production, like visiting a jungle for the research. The Pixar story team provided lots of quotes giving great insight into the story process. On the technical side to animating, nothing much is mentioned.
The challenge for this movie is aimed at simplicity. The character designs are based on simple shapes like squares (Carl), ovals (Russell, balloons), bullets (dogs), etc. I've the impression there are less sets and characters compared to other Pixar movies. There seem to be only the city, the sky (flying objects) and the jungle (big). You can see the focus is going to be on the characters.
The art included are character designs, storyboards, color scripts and few environmental paintings. Descriptions for the illustrations come in the form of quotes. There are lots of character sketches for the main characters, Carl, Russell and the house. Readers looking for the plot will find that in Lou Romano's colour scripts. It seems that there's a new (to me) character designer, Daniel López Muñoz, doing plenty of character sketches.
What you're not going to see are film stills, background paintings and pastels. No idea why but the number of background paintings always pales in comparison to non-Pixar art books. And there's only one pastel painting from Dominque Louis. I miss the pastel paintings included in earlier movie art books.
This book is really more for Pixar fans.
PS.
"Hey this doesn't look like one of Pixar's better art book is it?", a colleague remarks to me. Another goes "Not the kind of style I like". Well, I guess it's not for everyone but here are the pictures you can see for yourself. =)
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There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
Tim Hauser has provided a good writeup into design style and production process of the movie. There's talk on the story arc, themes, the characters and a bit on the artistic side of production, like visiting a jungle for the research. The Pixar story team provided lots of quotes giving great insight into the story process. On the technical side to animating, nothing much is mentioned.
The challenge for this movie is aimed at simplicity. The character designs are based on simple shapes like squares (Carl), ovals (Russell, balloons), bullets (dogs), etc. I've the impression there are less sets and characters compared to other Pixar movies. There seem to be only the city, the sky (flying objects) and the jungle (big). You can see the focus is going to be on the characters.
The art included are character designs, storyboards, color scripts and few environmental paintings. Descriptions for the illustrations come in the form of quotes. There are lots of character sketches for the main characters, Carl, Russell and the house. Readers looking for the plot will find that in Lou Romano's colour scripts. It seems that there's a new (to me) character designer, Daniel López Muñoz, doing plenty of character sketches.
What you're not going to see are film stills, background paintings and pastels. No idea why but the number of background paintings always pales in comparison to non-Pixar art books. And there's only one pastel painting from Dominque Louis. I miss the pastel paintings included in earlier movie art books.
This book is really more for Pixar fans.
PS.
"Hey this doesn't look like one of Pixar's better art book is it?", a colleague remarks to me. Another goes "Not the kind of style I like". Well, I guess it's not for everyone but here are the pictures you can see for yourself. =)
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There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Certainly a great purchase, as a huge pixar and also a graphic designer this is a must have, very inspirative and always nice to see the artists point and ideas
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It s a fantastic book, illustrating the evolution of a beautiful film. Even if you are not related to arts I would recommend its, this an interesting book to read through.
The condition I got it was perfect, and perfectly on time
The condition I got it was perfect, and perfectly on time
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Beautiful and informative
A great look at the preparatory work of Pixar. Great concept illustrations, and it gives you an in site into the thought processes that are involved in creating such a high... Read more
Published 9 months ago by scatty_kath
One of the best
This is in my opinion one of the best Pixar art books. Loads of pictures/Renders/concept art/... like the other art books, and has a lot of explanation in it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Sem Brys
Great gift for friend
I bought this book as a birthday present for a friend and as expected he loved it. Being a lover of the film 'Up' and also a video and motion graphics student I knew this was the... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Reviewer
Pixar... What else is there to say?
Amazing book, from front to back cover it's full of amazing insight and artwork which really takes you into the world of UP. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2010 by D. Wray
Fantastic artbook, if you're a student or a professional animator...
I've all pixar book and also this is fantastic, if you're a student or a professional animator, you need this book. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2009 by Chiarotti Luca
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