Product Description

After "Toy Story", "Ratatouille", "W.A.L.L.E", and other blockbusters, where else could Pixar Animation Studios go but UP? Their latest film is a heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age story about a 78-year-old widower. It features Carl Fredrickson (voiced by Ed Asner).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78267 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

About the Author
Tim Hauser has been a writer, creative executive, and producer in animation for over 20 years, with positions at Walt Disney, Warner Bros. and Fox. A former animator, Tim is an alumnus of the CalArts Character Animation Program. Pete Docter is the director of UP and Monsters, Inc.

Customer Reviews

More for the Pixar fans
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RN0ZRKO01J28C If you're still wondering about the real story of Pixar's Up, this book provides very good clues (or spoilers). I'll just say it's about Carl, the old man, going on a journey in search for meaning to his life. The directive from the top was to make Up "the studio's most emotive film to date".

Tim Hauser has provided a good writeup into design style and production process of the movie. There's talk on the story arc, themes, the characters and a bit on the artistic side of production, like visiting a jungle for the research. The Pixar story team provided lots of quotes giving great insight into the story process. On the technical side to animating, nothing much is mentioned.

The challenge for this movie is aimed at simplicity. The character designs are based on simple shapes like squares (Carl), ovals (Russell, balloons), bullets (dogs), etc. I've the impression there are less sets and characters compared to other Pixar movies. There seem to be only the city, the sky (flying objects) and the jungle (big). You can see the focus is going to be on the characters.

The art included are character designs, storyboards, color scripts and few environmental paintings. Descriptions for the illustrations come in the form of quotes. There are lots of character sketches for the main characters, Carl, Russell and the house. Readers looking for the plot will find that in Lou Romano's colour scripts. It seems that there's a new (to me) character designer, Daniel López Muñoz, doing plenty of character sketches.

What you're not going to see are film stills, background paintings and pastels. No idea why but the number of background paintings always pales in comparison to non-Pixar art books. And there's only one pastel painting from Dominque Louis. I miss the pastel paintings included in earlier movie art books.

This book is really more for Pixar fans.

PS.

"Hey this doesn't look like one of Pixar's better art book is it?", a colleague remarks to me. Another goes "Not the kind of style I like". Well, I guess it's not for everyone but here are the pictures you can see for yourself. =)

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

Great Art
Certainly a great purchase, as a huge pixar and also a graphic designer this is a must have, very inspirative and always nice to see the artists point and ideas

Pixar... What else is there to say?
Amazing book, from front to back cover it's full of amazing insight and artwork which really takes you into the world of UP. The concepts behind the film are expanded upon by some of the artists in the book, while I didn't think of all the situations, emotions and how it relates to parts of life while watching the film, after reading the book I did take away some extra knowledge about the theme(s) that it covers and some parts from a concept artist where quite touching.

I have two other Pixar books (Nemo and Wall-E, more to come though ;) ) and this is probably my favourite book when looking through for concept art and ideas for my own work, the choice of bright, vivid colours and the general feeling of happiness (possibly down to the bright colours and images of bright sky's with brilliant white clouds) given off by this book while looking through the pages is something I'm impressed with.