Book Review: Moonshine: DreamWorks Artists...After Dark!
Having own a few DreamWorks art books, I always wondered when their collaborative art book would be out. And it's finally out, as Moonshine.
49 artists from DreamWorks has their personal art featured. This includes art from character designers, visual development artists, production designers and art directors. You will see very familiar names like Nicolas Marlet, Nathan Fowkes, Dominique Louis, Chris Appelhans (typo error on contents page, guys!), Paul Lasaine and a whole lot more of talented artists.
The art is beautiful and varied, ranging from sketches to background paintings. I must point out that this book feels very different from your DreamWorks movie art books as there's no overlaying theme and only personal works are featured.
I do recognise some of their styles and is pleasantly surprised and delighted to find that Samuel Michlap has a few of his impressionist-style paintings inside. Also characters from Nicolas Marlet are easy to spot.
The good part about this book is you get to discover new artists, together with their websites and blogs which are listed in the index. So you can check out even more art online.
Nice compilation.
The list of artists featured are:
- Chris Appelhans
- Max Boas
- Jason Brubaker
- Devine Crane
- Sylvain Deboissy
- Paul Duncan
- Nathan Fowkes
- Goro Fujita
- Todd Gibbs
- Alex Hagelis
- Tianyi Han
- Kory Heinzen
- Tang Kheng Heng
- Leighton Hickman
- Ruben Hickman
- Michael Isaak
- Shannon Jeffries
- Bill Kaufmann
- Kristen Kawamura
- Jon Klassen
- Chin Ko
- Ronald Kurniawan
- Paul Lasaine
- Bryan Gregg LaShelle
- Christophe Lautrette
- luri Lioi
- Dominique Louis
- Nicolas Marlet
- Patrick Mate
- Marco Mateu-Mestre
- Samuel Michlap
- Emil Mitev
- Takao Noguchi
- Lindsey Olivares
- Sunil Pant
- Ruben Perez
- Shane Prigmore
- Alex Puvilland
- Simon Rodgers
- Ritchie Sacilioc
- Griselda Sastrawinata
- Jason William Scheier
- Christian Schellewald
- Shannon Tindle
- Pierre-Olivier Vincent
- ZhaoPing Wei
- Nicolas Weis
- Nate Wragg
- Felix Yoon
Visit Amazon to check out more reviews.
If you buy from the links, I get a little commission that helps me get more books to feature.
Here are direct links to the book:
Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.fr | Amazon.de | Amazon.co.jp | Amazon.cn
Comments
Already ordered this and
Already ordered this and Spectrum 17. Can't wait until it arrives.
Parka. Two questions. Are you gonna review The Art of Beauty and the Beast?
And my second question. Do you know where I can get an affordable "A Sketchy Past" by Peter de Seve the English version?
@Dave I'll be reviewing
In reply to Already ordered this and by Dave (not verified)
@Dave
I'll be reviewing Beauty and the Beast art book in December.
Not sure where you can find A Sketchy Past. You should try asking Stuart Ng or Labyrinth Books
i wouldnt order from
In reply to @Dave I'll be reviewing by Teoh Yi Chie
i wouldnt order from labyrinth books. i placed an order on october 28, they said it wouldn't ship until November 5. i said thats fine. i wait and wait, then i get an email on November 16 saying they still haven't shipped it yet; the reason being that "things have been really crazy lately." so here its november 22 and still i have no book.
that being said, you can get 'a sketchy past" from the society of illustrators site.
Decent price you think?
Decent price you think? Amazon they're already in the $150.00 range.
@Dave If you're going to buy
In reply to Decent price you think? by Dave (not verified)
@Dave
If you're going to buy at $150. I would rather you buy the French edition of A Sketchy Past. The only text is the introduction.
why is the Design Studio
why is the Design Studio Press version so much more expensive than the Titan books version? even if it were out of print....$100+ is going a bit far when compared to Titan's offer of $18...IS there any difference at all?
PS- Amazon UK have it in stock without any notice of limited stock.
@Anonymous Some of those
In reply to why is the Design Studio by Anonymous (not verified)
@Anonymous
Some of those prices are made by pricing programs automatically and may have no bearing to reality.
This is different than the
In reply to @Dave I'll be reviewing by Teoh Yi Chie
This is different than the "Tale as Old as Time" Beauty and the Beast?
Thanks Parka for checking the POC book.
On nevermind, I didn't notice
In reply to This is different than the by Bebe (not verified)
On nevermind, I didn't notice the year old date on this thread!
Add new comment