Book Review: White Cloud Worlds : An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artwork from Aotearoa New Zealand Vol 3

The third volume of White Cloud Worlds is yet another amazing showcase of artworks and talent from New Zealand. The book was put on Kickstarter asking for NZD $10,000 in funds and ended with over $40,000. That's great response.

I'm pleasantly surprised by the number of contributors. There are more than 60 artists featured, some are veterans with decades of experience. Many have worked on films, comics and video games.

This book collects paintings, mostly digital, and sculpture art. There are concept designs for characters, environments, robots, vehicles and scenes. The genre is fantasy and sci-fi. Variety is fantastic. It's a good showcase of different work and styles. Some are painted almost like fine art, others are more conceptual, a bit more rough, and there are also animation and comic styles. The quality is definitely top notch. Most art pieces are printed huge.

Each artist also wrote something for their profile and they are quite interesting to read, especially the longer pieces.

Paul Tobin has done a wonderful job editing the book. I can only imagine how difficult it is to contact all these top artists, get them to contribute, compile their art and lay them out in a beautiful book like this.

Highly recommended.

You can get the book at https://www.wetanz.com/white-cloud-worlds-volume-3-signed

The full list of artists included are

1. Christian Pearce
2. Aaron Beck
3. Laura Dubuk
4. Jacob Hina
5. William Bennett
6. David Tremont
7. Steve Wheeler
8. Imery Watson
9. Adam Middleton
10. Amit Dutta
11. Frank Victoria
12. Gus Hunter
13. Tim Kings-Lynne
14. Dede Putra
15. Paul Tobin
16. Jeremy Hanna
17. Dane Madgwick
18. Ben Hughes
19. Yip Lee
20. Linhan Ye
21. Ben Wootten
22. Jeffrey Lai
23. Sanjana Baijnath
24. Rochelle McKelvie
25. Rebekah Tisch
26. Tom Simpson
27. Sacha Lees
28. Henry Christian-Slane
29. Adam Tan
30. Allan Xia
31. Nicholas Blazey
32. Sam Yang
33. Matty Rodgers
34. Lincoln Renall
35. Ivan Vegar
36. Matt Katz
37. Vaughan Tangiau Flanagan
38. Joseph Qiu
39. Simon Morse
40. Rebecca Keropa
41. Stefan Messam
42. Damon Keen
43. Cory Mathis
44. Grey Broadmore
45. Tim Gibson
46. Ben Stenbeck
47. Dylan Coburn
48. Claire Tobin
49. Ruby Lee
50. T-Wei
51. Anna Johnstone
52. Garry Buckley
53. Peter Kelk "Seymour"
54. Tom Robinson
55. Nani Mahal
56. Stuart Thomas
57. Johnny Fraser-Allen
58. Tanya Marriott
59. Stephen Lambert
60. Andrew Baker
61. Lindsey Crummett
62. Jamie Beswarick
63. Bridget Monro
64. Nicholas Keller

You can get the book at https://www.wetanz.com/white-cloud-worlds-volume-3-signed