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Our Verdict
Breath taking imagery will satisfy fans of the Force and those not so familiar. But even without the 258 pages of stunning art, nosotros'd have bought the volume for the exclusive interviews and indepth insight into bringing such a complex world to life on screen.
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- In-depth explanation of how the team went from initial sketches/concepts to finished models, costumes and visual furnishings
- Explains how concept artists drove this blockbuster movie
- Author, Phil Szostak, part of art department as a conceptual researcher and archivist
- 600 colour illustrations
- No attempt to pad things out with movie stills
For those of you who've seen the latest Star Wars and want to know how they made it all look so damn beautiful, this book will likely never be bettered.
But fifty-fifty if y'all're not a fan, any creative person will find a lot to be fascinated by in this colourful account of how concept artists drove this blockbuster movie.
The author, Phil Szostak, was embedded with The Force Awakens art department as a conceptual researcher and archivist from December 2012 correct to the end of production, and then he knows his stuff.
And his explanation of how the team went from initial sketches and concepts to finished models, costumes and visual furnishings is in-depth and detailed.
Phil recounts how producer Kathleen Kennedy gathered together an array of art talent, led by Rick Carter (who provides the book's introduction), Darren Gilford, and Doug Chiang to reimagine George Lucas's franchise for the Disney era.
Exclusive interviews with these and other artists provide unique insights into how they brought director JJ Abrams' vision to life.
In fact, we'd probably have bought this for the text lonely. But the real joy of this beautifully produced book lies in the 600 colour illustrations, including production paintings, concept art and sketches, storyboards, blueprints and matte paintings.
At that place's no endeavor to pad things out with moving picture stills; every spare inch of the 258 pages is crammed with breathtakingly imaginative art.
And you don't only see, as with similar books, rough versions of what eventually ended upwards in the finished movie.
The artists, known at Disney/Lucasfilm equally the Visualists, went through a pretty wild brainstorming process to go there, and much of the fine art they left by the wayside is reproduced in all its celebrity.
We encounter the original storyboard for the opening sequence, for example, which precisely mirrors the start of A New Promise. We see initial designs for Jakku inspired by the shipbreaking yards of modernistic Republic of india – a far cry from the Wild West-inspired desert towns they afterwards became.
We experience the lengthy evolution of what eventually became Kylo Ren'due south mask, still initially began as more of a twist on the original Nighttime Vader helmet.
More intriguing even so are the concepts that didn't make information technology at all: the Emperor'due south Tower, crash-landed underwater afterward the 2nd Death Star explosion; a iv-person Tie fighter, called the Quad fighter; Luke tormented past Anakin's Ghost… How much of this, we wonder, will turn upward in the Star Wars films still to come?
The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Fine art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Breath taking imagery will satisfy fans of the Force and those not and so familiar. But even without the 258 pages of stunning art, nosotros'd have bought the book for the sectional interviews and indepth insight into bringing such a complex globe to life on screen.
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