Product Description

Meet Bolt: dashing super-hero, loyal companion, star of a fictional television show, dog. This rollicking Disney computer animated film follows Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) on a cross-country adventure as he learns the truth about his supposed super powers - and how friendship is the strongest of them all. "The Art of Bolt" is a beautiful collection of more than 250 pieces of concept art created for the film, including storyboards, digital and pencil sketches, color scripts, maquettes, full-color illustrations, as well as material from the fabled Disney archives. Insightful quotes by the director (who is also writing the Introduction), producer, artists, animators, and the production team contextualize the art, and thoughtful essays explore Disney's past, present, and future in animation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13584 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 159 pages

About the Author
Mark Cotta Vaz is the author of more than twenty books on film and animation, including our own The Art of Beowulf, The Art of the Incredibles, and many more. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chris Williams is the director of Bolt and the writer The Emperor's New Groove and Mulan.

Customer Reviews

Lots of good art and why-this-way talk
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1EQ35AL17U77J Bolt is one of the movies John Lasseter supervises in Disney, after coming over from Pixar. He starts to book off with a foreword that explains the artistic style Disney is trying to achieve -- 2-D painted backgrounds. Throughout the book, there are snippets on the way John has helped the team.

In this book are character designs, storyboards, digital paintings, sculptures and colour studies. The captions from the staff explain the challenges faced when creating the movie. It helps readers understand why certain buildings are modeled that way and why certain scenes are composed and shot in another way.

I like the production design, and how the movie looks. It's somewhat similar to how Open Season do their backgrounds, but this time applied to the urban landscape.

The number of character designs are limited mainly to Bolt, Penny, Mittens and Rhino. Not a lot of experimentation character sketches are shown. Did they get the correct design that fast? It's not a bad point. They do include many varying poses and sketches for the final character designs. Anyway, the only art books I've read that screams character designs straightaway are The Art of Kung Fu Panda and The Art of Bee Movie.

The environment paintings are beautiful. Captions for them always relate back to the story. The level of detail just goes to show how much research was done -- as recommended by John Lasseter.

There's not a lot of film stills and 3D talk. This book is more on the art, how the art is created generally, and why they are created that way.

I'll say it's almost as good as the other Pixar art books I have.

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

Excellent art book
This book is a delight, has excellent behind the scenes artwork from Disney artist's and good insight into the movie's production. Of particular interest to animators and people within the industry but also good for the regular Disney fan.