Product Description

This stunning book takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Star Wars Episode II. This edition shows the amazing artwork - including sketches, costume designs, models, and brilliant full-colour paintings - prepared for Star Wars Episode II. Extensive captions take the reader behind the scenes, making this one of the most extraordinary art exhibits in movie history.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #244768 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
This stunning book takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Star Wars Episode II. This edition shows the amazing artwork - including sketches, costume designs, models, and brilliant full-colour paintings - prepared for Star Wars Episode II. Extensive captions take the reader behind the scenes, making this one of the most extraordinary art exhibits in movie history.

From the Publisher
This stunning book takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Star Wars Episode II. Filled with never-before-seen artwork and the exclusive illustrated screenplay - you won't have seen anything like it!

About the Author
Art Director Doug Chiang is the leader of the Lucasfilm art team, and the talented painter whose breathtaking work will appear in this volume Writer Mark Cotta Vaz is a senior writer for Cinefex magazine, as well as the writer for From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives, Industrial Light and Magic: Into the Digital Realm, and Star Wars: Secrets of Shadows of the Empire. Immediately before this film is released he will be the author for the one official non-fiction tie-in to the Spider-Man movie. He lives in San Francisco.

Customer Reviews

This is truly ART, in the best sense of the word.
This book is everything you could hope for in a Star Wars publication. The artwork (it really is ART) throughout is beautiful and inspiring. If after you have read/looked through this book and its accompanying script and you dont want to see the film I would be very surprised.

It also gives you an insight into the creative minds behind the Star Wars universe with informative and yet short (leaving room for more art!) pieces on the art within. Key quotes litter the pages and build your anticipation to may 16th.

The script at the back of the book (to be honest I would have preferred a separate book like with Ep 1) is set out well, just one niggle its doesn't have much in the way of art to help tell the tale as you read it. Of course this isn't really a problem as the art is set out in the order in which it is shown in the film and therefore tells the story in a amazingly graphical way.

Its very difficult to find any real faults with this publication, its actual quality (of publishing) is outstanding and seams that it will last several years. I think the cliche line of "a must buy for any Star Wars fans" is in order as it truly is.

Not a starwars fan but loved this book.
I have had to sit thru star wars more times that I care to remember, I bought this book for my son, but I have to admit that it now resides in my bookcase. The drawings are stunning, its a book I pick up again and again. The screen play at the back is very funny if you try to act out the parts, how hammy the lines were.

A reasonable attempt - but soulless
There has been a long-standing tradition of "Art of" books relating to the Star Wars movies. Generally these are packed with insights to the creative process behind the movies. In that respect the goal is admirably met. It does what it says on the cover. Not only that you get the complete script - including deleted scenes.
However, this volume seems to lack any "soul". If you look back at the books on the original trilogy there is a certain enthusiasm in the writing and content of the books which seems absent here. I suppose it's that the process behind the movies has now so radically changed and is more of a production line. This book tends to show that this failing has all too clearly extended to the "Art of" books' presentation.