50 in '12: #19
Dec. 7th, 2012 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76At the moment, I'm on a temporary medication that has me injecting myself once a day. While the needle is fine enough that it doesn't hurt, and there's no blood involved, this has strengthened my resolve to work hard against my genetic tendencies (from both sides of the family) toward diabetes.
Not much else is happening, which is the reason behind the radio-silence-except-for-fanfics thing. It's cool (I'd say cold, but even I know I live in a place where it never freezes) and it's dark before I even leave work, so my brain gleefully hopping around a new fandom like, well, the Easter Bunny, is the major part of my mental activity at the moment. Pray tell, how do I watch a movie like RotG and end up with a Global Thermonuclear War scenario? I think my brain is wonky. Speaking of,
Title: The Art of Dreamworks' Rise of the Guardians
Author: Ramin Zahed
Length: 155 pages
I usually don't review artbooks, since they're theoretically more about the art than about the word. But this one, I am so obsessed that I read every single word. And even caught a major error (2012 - 300 years =/= "early 1600s" or "seventeenth century" thankyouverymuch) in it!
Like the film itself, this book is visually fantastic. Lots of concept art by lots of different artists. Discussion of the filmmaking process, etcetera.
What I found lacking, though, was a sufficiency of information about the main character! Jack Frost's section was by FAR the shortest, and was merged in with the section on everyday humans. Also, when one of the interviews says "there was this particular picture that we really felt expressed the heart of the character," ordinarily, one would expect that picture to be in the artbook!
That said, I love all the details I've gleaned on the different settings. And I find the shapes they used for each character fascinating. North = square, Bunny = triangle, Sandy = sphere, Tooth = diamond, and Pitch = coffin are all fantastic. (Though I'm still trying to figure out how lanky, skinny Jack = hexagon, aside from the fact that he is indeed a special snowflake.) I will doubtlessly be staring at this book many times more, letting it inspire more words from me.
Verdict: If you like the movie, or like artbooks, recommended!
Not much else is happening, which is the reason behind the radio-silence-except-for-fanfics thing. It's cool (I'd say cold, but even I know I live in a place where it never freezes) and it's dark before I even leave work, so my brain gleefully hopping around a new fandom like, well, the Easter Bunny, is the major part of my mental activity at the moment. Pray tell, how do I watch a movie like RotG and end up with a Global Thermonuclear War scenario? I think my brain is wonky. Speaking of,
Title: The Art of Dreamworks' Rise of the Guardians
Author: Ramin Zahed
Length: 155 pages
I usually don't review artbooks, since they're theoretically more about the art than about the word. But this one, I am so obsessed that I read every single word. And even caught a major error (2012 - 300 years =/= "early 1600s" or "seventeenth century" thankyouverymuch) in it!
Like the film itself, this book is visually fantastic. Lots of concept art by lots of different artists. Discussion of the filmmaking process, etcetera.
What I found lacking, though, was a sufficiency of information about the main character! Jack Frost's section was by FAR the shortest, and was merged in with the section on everyday humans. Also, when one of the interviews says "there was this particular picture that we really felt expressed the heart of the character," ordinarily, one would expect that picture to be in the artbook!
That said, I love all the details I've gleaned on the different settings. And I find the shapes they used for each character fascinating. North = square, Bunny = triangle, Sandy = sphere, Tooth = diamond, and Pitch = coffin are all fantastic. (Though I'm still trying to figure out how lanky, skinny Jack = hexagon, aside from the fact that he is indeed a special snowflake.) I will doubtlessly be staring at this book many times more, letting it inspire more words from me.
Verdict: If you like the movie, or like artbooks, recommended!
