Gabriele Pennacchioli is an animator, story artists and designer at DreamWorks. On his blog you'll see a lot of nice character scenes drawn on tanned background. Visit gabrielepennacchioli.blogspot.com to see more of his work.

And here are more blogs from DreamWorks artists.

The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is now available on Amazon.com. Other places not so soon. I'll be getting a copy so there's going to be a review (in August).

By the way, if you're at San Diego Comic Con 2009, the book will also be sold there at the Chronicle Books booth 1506. Artists Thang Le, Russell Chong, Randy Bantog, Jackson Sze will be signing the books on 24 July (Friday) at 2pm.

True Star Wars fans can test their faith with the US$120 limited edition. It comes with a slipcase, 3 gatefolds (whatever that means), vellum envelope bound to end paper, containing 8 pieces of portfolio art.

If you're still looking for The Art of Monsters Inc and don't mind the text in Japanese, Amazon Japan has it in stock. Only limited copies are available. The price is around US$40 not including shipping. For your information, the market rate for the out-of-print English edition is over US$100.

There's a link somewhere on the Amazon page to translate it to English, after that checkout will be in English as well. If you're already an Amazon customer, your account information will be filled automatically. Here are amazon.co.jp shipping rates for your reference.

And here's the book review for the English edition.