Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155019 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Synopsis
Working drawings and sketches by Disney artists for the movies in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The curse of the Black Pearl, Dead man's chest, and At world's end.

Customer Reviews

A big book filled with detailed sketches and paintings
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RD8V31E8GR42 This is a humongous book. In one photo below, I've put my number-pad-less keyboard for comparison. The hardcover has a leather type treatment and slightly spongy to make it feel like an ancient book. The paper stock is thick and there are several fold out pages.

This book contains concept art for the 3 movies for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End.

There are sketches, paintings and some storyboards. The focus of the book is on set and character design. The concept paintings have so much detail that will be lost if not printed on a book this size. To zoom in even closer on the paintings, there's where the fold out pages come into play. The portraits for Captain Barbossa and his decomposed skeletal crew are draw at life size!

There are also numerous paintings for the ships, creatures, harbour and the seas.

Fans of Pirates of the Caribbean should find this book very interesting. Character designers too.

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

A must for fans!
I love this book! It's a large book, with a padded hard cover that looks like black leather. Introduction by director Gore Verbinski and afterword by production designer Rick Heinrichs. This book has art from all three films, showing concept art and character development, and some story boards. The picture quality is astounding from the pencil sketches to the digital art photos in the fold out sections. Stand out pictures are the fold out section of the cursed pirates in the 'curse of the black pearl' section page 38, and the sketches of 'Bootstrap Bill' on page 65 and Keith Richards as Jack's Dad on page 139. Had I spotted this in a shop I would have gladly paid double the money - that's how good the quality of this book is. A truly beautiful book.

aaaarghh me beauty
everything that lizley said and more...every artist will love this book. It has the sao feng map in it with all the fine delicate bits in it.all the sketches for costume and set are there too , they are all truly amazing even if you arent a pirate fan!I spend hours on each page...