The Art of Pixar: The Complete Colorscripts from 25 Years of Feature Films (Revised and Expanded) (Disney)

Bought for my sister a couple years ago for Christmas and she still uses it today! Highly recommend getting this for anyone who loves Pixar!

Excelente material

The media could not be loaded.  The Art of Pixar is a gorgeous book that represents the humble beginnings of an animation studio that is now loved by fans worldwide.The first colorscript was drawn by Ralph Eggleston for Toy Story. That was in 1993 and it had enchanted John Lasseter, Steve Jobs and the rest of the then little studio. Today, many years and films later, it's nice to see that Pixar is still creating them, using them to communicate the emotional arc of their stories.Collected within the 320 pages of this beautiful book are the colorscripts up to the latest movie Cars 2. Also included are the colorscripts for the many animated shorts that, if I'm not wrong, are all appearing in this book for the first time. The 100 over pages at the back are for selected pieces of art, one printed per page. These are the work from the last 25 years.It's quite cool to see the artistic styles used by different artists to create the colorscripts. I love the pastel ones by Ralph Eggleston and Dominique R. Louis. The vector style art of Lou Romano for The Incredibles is still a refreshing departure of usual style of drawing them with pastel. Later on, the colorscript slowly evolved to being drawn digitally. The ones by Sharon Calahan for Cars 2 are so detailed I'm not sure if they aren't film stills.The book claims to have the complete colorscripts but that's not exactly true. Since I have the other Pixar art books published by Chronicle Books, I went back to compare the content. I found out that the book didn't include some of the colorscripts that were featured in the earlier art books. Some from  The Art of Finding Nemo  weren't included. However, this book includes a lot of new colorscripts that aren't in the earlier books. In particular, there are many more extra pages of colorscripts for Cars and Cars 2. The colorscripts for Ratatouille in this book are not even in  The Art of Ratatouille .As for the selected pieces of art, many are from earlier art books. I guess there some are new pieces but I didn't do a detail comparison. Even if there are some duplication, you'll still want the book because of the colorscripts, all conveniently collected and beautifully laid out.The Art of Pixar is a tribute to art, animation and the amazing people working at Pixar. It's an inspiring book authored by veteran animation writer Amid Amidi. Highly recommended.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

The media could not be loaded.  I am an artist myself, so I bought this for when I have artist block and I don’t have the creative energy to produce or If I need some inspiration. It’s very cool book, it starts off as pastel color on paper and then into modern rendered colorscripts. There’s only word texts in the first 10 pages briefly discussing how the work came about and the use of color and design. Then you venture off into an infinity of color script concepts on how a movie came about. And it come with a hard cover case to store in, the book itself is hard cover too. Just minor dents and scratches nothing too noticeable. Only downfall is the paper cut I have from flipping through the pages in a hurry, but over all good quality of sketches and drawings into one book. Hopefully this book inspires new artist into animation and storytelling, and keeps aspiring myself to be one some day. Highly recommend this book :)

For those studying to be Concept Artists, this book is an incredible tool to help understand the development pipeline.Highly Recommend.

True to the late Steve Jobs's philosophy, this is an impressively high-quality art book that would look great on your bookcase or coffee table, but be warned that it appeals more to the artist than to the movie buff.I expected storyboarded scripts that used actual stills from the movies, with perhaps the dialog printed below each frame - something between a script and a graphic novel - but what they really are are sketches, some more primitive than others, and each done in a different artistic style. Some of the styles just don't appeal to me at all, such as the harsh art-deco cut-out look they used for The Incredibles, or the darker, low-contrast, primitive chalk sketches used for A Bug's Life.I also thought these were supposed to be complete scripts - a storyboard for every major shot in the movie - but for Ratatouille there are fewer than 4 pages of images - not even an image per scene. There is absolutely no text - either dialog or direction - associated with the "scripts".I have known the kinds of folks at whom this book is aimed - people who sit around coffee shops with sketch pads and art & animation junkies - and I think they will adore it, but this book is not meant for the masses, and is certainly not meant for younger kids - they won't appreciate it.It is not my intention to anger those folks who will truly appreciate this book, this book has an audience that will appreciate it for what it is, but the casual Pixar movie lover or parent should be warned that this book is probably not what you're looking for. That is the reason for my 3-star review: I think this polarizing book will have a small audience for whom it will be a 5-star book, and a larger audience for whom it will be a 1-star book. You need to know which camp you fall into.I love movies. I love Pixar. I love quality books. This book represents all those things, yet I do not find it interesting and regret having purchased it.Sorry.

Very very happy customer. Shipment was fast. Thank you for the beautiful birthday gift for my son. He is very happy.

I bought this book as a gift for my boyfriend for his birthday, he really loves animation and Pixar color schemes. The book is full of rich beautiful colors, the pages are thick and sturdy, overall the book is absolutely beautiful.

It's wonderful to see all the colour strips like this. Very impressive. So glad I got the book.

A beautiful book that provides some great insight into the art style and process of Pixar. Beyond the forward the book is divided into two sections, "colour scripts" and "worlds". There is very little text, just page after page of high quality images. Wonderful

Great book for Pixar fans of all ages, beautifully composed with colourful concept and scene images arranged by film with a section on the Pixar 'Shorts' artwork at the back too. Arrived quickly and well packaged, really happy with this purchase :)

The colour choices used in these movies are simplyy outstanding, this is a great book, especially for concept artists, colour choice is so important!

Can't complain about the actual quality of the book as is a lovely put together book! But if you're looking for pages full of art and handrawn sketches this book isn't for you ! Basically just filled with coloured story boards barely any text to go with them and just found it a little boring and very much repetitive