Product Description

This comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at the blockbuster Iron Man movie features exclusive content, from concept art and armor design, to unreleased stills and a glimpse at the creative process. It's everything you wanted to know about the making of the movie from all the key players, including Jon Favreau, Stan Winston, Marvel's Kevin Feige, and more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #435794 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Pages are soaked with art work
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R2L4M5DX4TUO0N This book contains concept art, photographs, paintings, storyboards, miniatures and live models. The main artists involved were Ryan Meinerding and Phil Sanders.

For people who like mechanical stuff, you'll be glad that to know that plenty of iron man designs are included. The drawings are detailed to the nuts and bolts. The evolution of Iron Man from concept to movie can be clearly seen from the first concept art right down to the life size cast created.

3D modelers who are looking for blueprints won't find them in this book. However, there are renders of Iron Man Mark II and Iron Monger from the front and side view. They should be enough to build the blueprint from.

Also included are the drawings for the environment, props and gadgets. That includes Tony Stark's house, his workshop and the Arc Reactor.

The last part of the book contains storyboards and pre-vis plates. Pre-vis are 3D storyboards screenshots. They discuss the story development and the challenges to shooting the movie.

All the pictures in the book are well captioned. They explain clearly the production process and the effect they are trying to achieve.

The only bad thing about the book is the paper stock. It is not thick enough. While black pages are cool, the paper has to be thick enough to absorb all the ink. If not, the paper becomes wavy. Luckily, it doesn't affect the visual quality of the images printed.

I still gave it a 5-star rating on Amazon -- more to 4.5-star because of the paper stock.

There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.

Beautiful, but lots of art missing.
This is a really great book for all fans of the film and sci-fi/mecha in general. However I keep stumbling across pictures on google that aren't in this book and there were some on the DVD extras aswell. I know there's not enough room to put in all of the thousands of pictures done by the Iron Man art department but there's some really great ones missing e.g. The MArk 1 by ADi Granov.

But moan aside, a great book.

ART from the best!
Hell yeah! When I have first hold this beautiful album in my hand in a local retailer I instantly knew that I'm gonna get this. There are four things I'm nuts about, movies, special effects, Stan Winston, and concept art. All is in this book. I can't say nothing further than that it is a wonderfully constructed edition, with beautiful designs, and pictures from the best people in the industry. It is really exeptional following the development of the figures of this great movie. There is only one thing left to say that I want more books like this. Thanks for everybody involved!