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| The Art of Kung Fu Panda | 
 enlarge | Author: Tracey Miller-zarneke
Creator: Jack Black
Publisher: Insight Editions
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
Buy New: $26.03
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 3664
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 191
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 10.3 x 1
ISBN: 1933784571
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372
EAN: 9781933784571
ASIN: 1933784571
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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kung fu pandatastic! July 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
WOW! this is by far the most gorgeous and beautiful artbook i have seen yet and believe me i have a lot of art books.
full of origional artwork paintings and storyboards.
having been to china this book really captures the enviroments and the character design is fantastic! the art directors also worked on projects like hero and crouching tiger hidden dragon so this really inspired the artwork.
Beautiful July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was definitely worth the price of purchase, no question. Everything, from the cover to page after page of Nicolas Marlet's character design work, is absolutely gorgeous. The transition between 2D and 3D characters is the closest to seamless I've seen yet, and some of the digital paintings just blow me away.
I am an animation student and this book continues to be inspiring each time I go through it. Hats off to the folks at Dreamworks for their great work and to the author for showcasing it in such a great book.
Awesome July 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is probably one of the best art books ever made for a movie. I love the style of everything in the book and the character design is some of the best I have ever seen.
Art of Kung Fu Pand is AWESOME July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really love this book. I loved the art style of the move; the backgrounds, the character designs, everything. This book just gave me more to love about the movie. Definitely worth it if you loved the movie and the style.
Nicolas Marlet's illustrations make this book, a beautiful book but I do miss the earlier 'Art of' editions.... July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Firstly, I really cannot stress enough how beautiful Nicolas Marlet's illustrations are, he creates wonderful characters and anyone who loves character art cannot help but enjoy the mans illustrative comic talent. I would have bought the book alone for his drawings and if Dreamworks had had the insight to print all his sketch books relating to Kung Fu Panda I would have bought that also. I love his work, free and inspirational and anyone who can make others laugh in a few simple lines has a gift. So I highly recommend this book to all you illustrators and animators, a beautiful drawing can say more about how a character is to be animated than any text and Marlet's work must have been very influential to the films evolution.
Ever since I was a kid, I'd buy an animation art book almost yearly. The Art of The Lion King was probably the first art book of this type I ever had given to me and it kindled my love of animation art all the more, finally in these pages were beautiful concept illustrations, story board art works, inspirational paintings and final prints from the film, all of which were bound up in beautifully presented cloth covered large scale folio editions (originally printed by Hyperion). Books like these emphasised the storytelling process the Disney studios believed in and presented imagery which spoke volumes above the text, since the key to all great artistic works be it in animation, illustration, theatre design or film is the artists ability to simply draw from life, observe it, relish it and understand it -- and from that process you have great storytelling, you need imagination naturally and that's the art part, how you see marks you out ........... these books just need to show us more art when the film was evolving as that is inspirational and they could be designed better.
This is a fine book but doesn't really live up to my expectations when compared to what came before. It is smaller, I can't see the point in printing images which are the size of postage stamps on these pages and I want to see more final, well chosen film prints and pencil, painterly, illustrations than any image which has a digital smooth feel, ultimately this lack texture and evokes little.
But buy the book for Nicolas Marlet's illustrations, they live up to the films impact!
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