Product Description

Meet Bolt: dashing super-dog loyal companion star of a hit television show. This heartfelt Disney computer-animated film follows Bolt on a cross country journey as he learns his entire life has been fakeóand discovers he doesn't need super powers to be a hero. The Art of Bolt is a beautiful collection of more than 250 pieces of concept art created for the film including storyboards sketches color scripts full-color illustrations as well as material from the fabled Disney archives. Quotes by the director producer and artists contextualize the art and thoughtful essays explore Disney's past present and future in animation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55032 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 159 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780811865319
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Mark Cotta Vaz is the author of more than 20 books on film and animation. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chris Williams and Byron Howard are the directors of Bolt. Between them, they have 30 years of Disney Animation experience.

Customer Reviews

Lots of good art and why-this-way talk
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3RGCDMV27L58B Bolt is one of the movies John Lasseter supervises in Disney, after coming over from Pixar. He starts to book off with a foreword that explains the artistic style Disney is trying to achieve -- 2-D painted backgrounds. Throughout the book, there are snippets on the way John has helped the team.

In this book are character designs, storyboards, digital paintings, sculptures and colour studies. The captions from the staff explain the challenges faced when creating the movie. It helps readers understand why certain buildings are modeled that way and why certain scenes are composed and shot in another way.

I like the production design, and how the movie looks. It's somewhat similar to how Open Season do their backgrounds, but this time applied to the urban landscape.

The number of character designs are limited mainly to Bolt, Penny, Mittens and Rhino. Not a lot of experimentation character sketches are shown. Did they get the correct design that fast? It's not a bad point. They do include many varying poses and sketches for the final character designs. Anyway, the only art books I've read that screams character designs straightaway are The Art of Kung Fu Panda and The Art of Bee Movie.

The environment paintings are beautiful. Captions for them always relate back to the story. The level of detail just goes to show how much research was done -- as recommended by John Lasseter.

There's not a lot of film stills and 3D talk. This book is more on the art, how the art is created generally, and why they are created that way.

I'll say it's almost as good as the other Pixar art books I have.

There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.

The Behind the Scenes Art of Bolt
Its Christmas season, and that means there must be a new animated Disney movie. This year's release is Bolt, the story of super-hero TV star dog, that thinks the special effects for his superpowers are real. Vaz has done a number of behind-the-scenes books about other animated movies, and this one is just as good. Early sketches, storyboards, scripts and full color illustrations from the movie are interspersed with quotes from many of the staff involved in producing Bolt, including directors Chris Howard and Byron Howard. Definitely a book for Disney collectors.

Pretty good art book of a pretty good movie.
There are great character designs in here but not a much. It seems there are more digital landscapes than there are drawings of the main character. All quality stuff, but comes up short with the amount of character drawings you get.