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| A Bug's Life: The Art and Making of an Epic of Miniature Proportions / Jeff Kurtti : 3 of 5 | |
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5.03.2005
11:06 PM | Link |
 I'm still catching up on my art books, and I won this one on Disney Auctions (signed by the author). This is a giant-sized book, and the cover (different from the one shown here, since mine is a first edition) has a magnificent lenticular of several characters peeking through a hole munched into a leaf - I don't think I've ever seen a larger lenticular, and the depth is wonderful! The book itself isn't as great as the cover, but I'm glad I own it and I enjoyed reading it. This time the balance is too heavy on text and production stills, with only about a third of the artwork being pre-production. I know, I usually complain the other way around, but someday they'll get it right. The text is well-written, but unfortunately covers a lot of "fluff" (such as explaining what a storyboard is) and seems repetitive at times. But when it's interesting, it's fantastic (such as discussing how shaders and lighting works, or covering the development of crowd simulation). My favorite pieces of art are the Bud Luckey storyboards, which just shine with brilliance, and the huge spreads of production stills really allow you to examine the film! It's funny how the color script presented here doesn't wow me much, when the color script for The Incredibles blew me away. It's fun reading about the good ol' days when Disney and Pixar were complementing each other right and left, too. Time to start reading another one!
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