Book Review: The Art of Tron: Legacy

Not a single page devoted to the Light Jets?

Thats utterly absurd...

Pretty Dissappointing.

I was anticipating a solid book of art. Instead i got a book with mostly still images from the film and the teaser trailers. Disney should have put more art work and iterations of the different designs. Also they didn't put any drawing of the light jets or how they got to particular designs.

I know they could have done better, but they choose to give us a lackluster art book.

Very dissappointing on their part.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed-

I think I'll give this book a miss. Money's tight with me a the mo and I could do without an "art book" that has more still images than concept art. I think i'll use my money and buy the tangeled art book!

I bought this for my hubby as a Christmas prezzie and he wasn't disappointed. I suppose, I got it when I read somewhere there would be lightcycle concepts and whatnot, but even though there weren't as much as I thought there'd be, he still loved the book. It's good for fans, regardless.

I have to agree with Parka, this is far from what we've come to expect as a
"art of" book.
For the price of $40.00 US dollars I expect to see a lot more than stills
from the film,It makes me feel cheated.

I expect to see various iterations and such because we all know that the design process is a very long road to cross.
And as a designer myself I think that even discarded designs are important to include, what were they thinking?(Probably just about making a fast buck like most publishers.)

Lots of flash with not much substance.

I wanted this book, and the photos of the book on this blog are gorgeous. Then I looked at it in the store, and wasn't very impressed. The type size is very large too - that means there isn't a lot of content in the book. Most art and making of books have smaller font size. With all the stills from the film, it feels very light on serious behind the scenes and art content. It's more of a picture book. I wanted more pages, more art, less stills, not every picture should fill the entire page, and more behind the scenes writing. Disappointing and not worthy of being called an "art" book. As was also said, it feels more like a visual companion. I haven't bought it yet, although I still do want it for the content that it does have. I just wish it was a lot better.

The first art book of Avatar was very slim also. I hope they issue a real book soon...Maybe with a third movie arriving soon, they want all unused design kept under raps...what a bummer man!