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| The Art of WALL.E | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Hauser
Creator: Andrew Stanton
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 6961
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0811862356
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372
EAN: 9780811862356
ASIN: 0811862356
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Product Description
Pixar Animation Studios, the innovators behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, has again reinvented the genre with WALL E. When a robot searching for a connection finds EVE, a sleek female probe-droid from outer space, he embarks on an adventure-filled journey across the galaxy. Inspired by classic films, and a brave venture in its own right, WALL E is set to awe audiences this summer. The Art of WALL E includes more than 250 imaginative pieces of concept art, including storyboards, full-color pastels, digital and pencil sketches, character studies, color scripts, and more. The astute text?featuring quotes from the director, artists, animators, and production team?unearths the filmmakers' historical inspirations and reveals a studio confidently pushing the limits of animation.
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 See how Pixar works its magic June 13, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
What a beautiful book! Thumbing through it, I was struck by how many different types of art are represented: rough pencil sketches, full-bleed background images, pen and ink, pen and marker, digital imagery, even drawings made of "charcoal and hairspray" and "marker and correction fluid." I enthusiastically recommend The Art of WALL.E for aspiring artists, movie fans and anyone wanting to see behind the curtain at the Pixar wizard's inner workings.
My teenage daughter loves it.
In the foreword, WALL.E director and writer Andrew Stanton reveals the line that inspired the movie: "What if mankind were forced to evacuate Earth and someone forgot to turn the last robot off?" This book shows the journey from that initial sentence to the completed animated movie.
Spread throughout the pages are quotes from the movie's production team. "I wanted to do 'R2-D2: The Movie,'" says Stanton. Art director Anthony Christov notes that the movie's trash world was inspired by Chernobyl. "Everything is abandoned. Everything is leveled. Nobody can live there."
Under the dust jacket is a plain yellow cover, with a logo for BnL (Buy & Large, the film's super-corporation) embossed on the front and the title in white on the spine.
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 Missed opportunity July 16, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First of all let me say that my rating doesn't have anything to do with Wall-e which is a great movie or Pixar which I love.
Here I'm rating this book only. Regrettably, I must say that "The Art of Wall-e" is a missed opportunity. It could have featured many more drawings about wall-e (the actual character) and its genesis. Out of its 160 pages this book manages to devote to the design of this robot and to drawings showing how wall-e "works" a mere 4 pages (pages 48-49 and 52-53).
Also, at page 102 we are told that "there were nine revisions of Eve" and yet, we are only shown that robot more or less as it appears in the movie instead of as a work in progress which would have been much more interesting and stimulating by giving the reader insight into the artists' creative process.
Unlike the previous "Art of" books about Pixar movies, this one doesn't really delve into the evolution of art direction or characters in a major way (except for the humans in the movie) as if what we see in the movie weren't the result of several iterations (as it most definitely is).
In short, great art but much left to be desired.
Pastel Drawings Were Missing June 23, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1QHHL95BIIAMW This book carried a much darker tone. That's because in the movie, planet earth was covered with trash, turning everything brown. The colour palette from the movie was limited to very dark tones. This book wasn't as colourful compared to other Pixar artbooks as a result.
Missing from this book were pastel drawings, the common ingredient found in Pixar artbooks. Ralph Eggleston, pastel artists from Finding Nemo, changed to a different style!
There were lots of concept art, character design and storyboard going around.
All in all, this was another marvelous artbook to collect for any Pixar fan.
There are a few pictures of the pages from the book at my blog. Just do a search on 'parka blogs walle art'
Finally.... June 26, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Once I got the book, I couldn't put it down. As a person trying to break into the industry with a traditional animation background, it's good to know that Pixar still pushes "Old skool" style. The backgrounds are amazing, the artwork is spectacular, and their mission to let the animators "animate"? I LOVE PIXAR! I think this book is for the animator in all of us dying to get out and put their skills to the test. It explains obstacles you have to overcome when something is taken away. Storytelling through expression and art is somewhat of a lost art. Pixar has that magic touch to bring it back to the animation field and Im all for it! Chuck Jones once said about the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies that you can turn off the volume to the t.v. and still understand what is going on. If anyone can do that I believe Pixar's the one.
Pixar's done it again June 11, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
A gorgeous Art development book to accompany the film. Enjoyed every minute of reading, viewing and absorbing this book!
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