Product Description

The eagerly awaited fourth Terminator movie, "Terminator Salvation", starring Christian Bale and directed by McG, reaches cinemas on 22 May 2009. In a brand-new chapter in the Terminator saga, Judgement Day has come to pass and Skynet has destroyed much of the world's population. In this post-apocalyptic world populated by deadly killing machines, the resistance, including John Connor, continues its brutal fight for survival. "The Art of Terminator Salvation" is a stunning visual chronicling of the making of the movie, comprising of exclusive designs, storyboards and stills revealing the depth of creativity that has gone into creating the brand-new Terminator movie.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113133 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
"Tara Bennett gathers an array of images, from embryonic sketches to magnificently detailed double page concept art, threaded with photos of the life-size animatronic Termies in every stage of their construction."
--Imagine FX

About the Author
Tara Bennett is the author of a variety of movie and TV companions, including 300: The Art of the Film and several official companions to the hugely successful TV show 24. She also writes regular articles for many publications including SFX and Lost: The Official Magazine, as well as contributing to popular website SciFi.com.

Customer Reviews

You'll see a lot of Terminators in this book
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/ROQETIMFZIZ79 The star of the movie is John Connor. The star of this art book is the Terminators. This 240-page hardcover volume features hundreds of color illustrations, storyboards, and intricately designed production art. Much of the concept paintings are done by production designer Martin Laing. There's also Jason Sweers, Victor Martinez, David Lowery who worked on the Terminator designs and storyboards. Unfortunately, a lot of credits don't come with names so we'll not know the exact artist.

This book has a ton of designs for the Terminators. We're talking about T-1, T-600, Aerostats, Hunter-Killers, Hydrobots, Transports, Harvesters, Moto-Terminators and even the T-70 which is only seen in the video game. There's several rejected iterations of the designs up to the final model used in the movie. These are in the form of 3D modeling, a few paintings and sketches. Included in a smaller amount are the set and location designs like the hideout, Skynet's factory, etc.

Overall, there's not much text except for the captions. Captions when provided nicely explains the thought process that goes behind the designs, like facing the challenge of differentiating these Terminators from Michael Bay's Transformers.

Strangely not included are the weapons used by the resistance fighters. I really want to know what kind of guns can be used to blow up endoskeletons. There's also not much character designs other John Connor in his few different costumes. Some of the production photos used are also a bit low in resolution but there are only a few production photos. If you want to see more production photos, you should grab Terminator Salvation: The Movie Companion.

This book is recommended for concept artists and fans of Terminator.

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

The Art of Terminator Salvation HB
Nice quality book, great overall coverage of the film's artwork and the design process. Not much to read but enough to explain, I was unsure if some of the pictures would be the same as the Official Movie Companion but there are very few repeated and both are great to have if you like Terminator and other Sci-Fi.