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The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - Chronicles III: Art & Design (2013)

by Daniel Falconer(Favorite Author)

4.63 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0062265695 (ISBN13: 9780062265692)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harper Design

series

The Hobbit Chronicles

review 1: Much like the last Art and Design book for The Hobbit, I thought this was fantastic and among the best art books you can buy. The design of the book, from the cover to each individual page is beautiful. It doesn't hurt that Desolation of Smaug has a lot of really interesting design choices from Mirkwood, the elves, Dale, and even Smaug who briefly appears at the end. That made this an exciting and enjoyable read. I also appreciated The Master's Portrait in the back of the book. His character was so well done and the fact that they reproduced it here is equally amusing and impressive. It is rare to find a book that I can't find any faults with and this one is highly recommended to Hobbit fans or anyone who wants to see fantasy design.
review 2: This encaps... moreulates all the precise detail and effort put into this second installment of The Hobbit. I loved reading the commentary of what inspired the various location props, costumes, and architecture. It showed some of the progression to and from the artists' first attempts to finalizing the right looks for each scene. I loved how Lake-Town advanced, especially. It also looks like a few character are even detailed more here (more orc knowledge). Some scenes that included Thrain will probably pop up with extra film footage when it's releashed on DVD and Blu-ray. It looks like more serpentine art could have been included for Smaug, but I believe that will be covered in a bonus book next year. I'll definitely be looking into more of those dragon concepts. I'd like to see how it went from the beginning of del Toro's sketch notes to further concepts done with Howe and Lee (then under direction from Peter Jackson) to be fully fleshed out for the movies. Overall, with all these amazing concepts I can't wait to see how this trilogy winds down. less

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