Customer Reviews
a beautiful book but I do miss the earlier 'Art of' editions..... - By: Horatio Guttersnipe, 16 Jul 2008 
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 & it kindled my love of animation art all the more, finallyin these pages were beautiful concept illustrations, story board art works, inspirational paintings & final prints from the film, all of which were bound upin beautifully presented cloth covered large scale folio editions (originally printed by Hyperion). Books like these emphasised the storytelling process the Disney studios believedin & presented imagery which spoke volumes above the text, since the key to all great artistic works be itin animation, illustration, theatre design or film is the artists ability to simply draw from life, observe it, relish it & understand it -- & from that process you have great storytelling, you need imagination naturally & 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 & 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 pointin printing images which are the size of postage stamps on these pages & I want to see more final, well chosen film prints & pencil, painterly, illustrations than these digital smooth works which lack texture. The Monsters Inc. art book is a better example of Pixars ability to portray wonderful characters & displays more traditional means of creating concept illustrations for these films.
Brilliant!!!!!! - By: Mrs. Jd Whitehouse, 09 Jul 2008 Amazing book. I cannot recommend it enough. If your a fan of pixar you will love it. If you have any of the other pixar "art of" books then you know what to expect. Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
