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6th out of 139 books
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30 voters
The Art of Brave
Brave is Pixar's thirteenth feature film, but it marks two big firsts for the award-winning animation studio. It's Pixar's first feature film driven by a female lead and its first set in an ancient historical period. Against a backdrop of castles, forests, and highlands, Brave follows the fiery Merida as she clashes with the duty of her royal life and embarks on a journey...more
Hardcover, 160 pages
Published
May 31st 2012
by Chronicle Books
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"Brave" is a beautiful movie, so of course a lot of the art in this book is beautiful as well. The art of the Scottish highlands was pretty awesome, as were the photographs taken when the team went to Scotland to study the place, and there were a few fun concept drawings of the characters. I also liked the overall design of this book more than I did the art books for "Tangled" and "The Princess and the Frog."
The text, on the other hand, bored me a little and had me skimming through at times. The...more
The text, on the other hand, bored me a little and had me skimming through at times. The...more
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This is a lovely art book for the movie Brave. This is number 13 for Pixar if anyone's counting.
The book's 160 pages and it's all filled with art and commentary. The concept art is great and you can really feel that everything really fits well together, the characters, the landscape and the stories. There are character designs, environment drawings, sculpts, storyboards and colorscript.
This is Pixar's first period film. The environment designs are a bit dark but that's...more
This book was a gift from my wife for our third anniversary earlier this year. It's been sitting on the coffee table for several weeks, and I looked through it a few times, but now I finally took the time to sit down and examine it more closely and read the text. When we saw Brave in the theaters I wasn't blown away exactly, but I think I'll like it better the second time (DVD currently also sitting on the coffee table), and whatever its story or character faults, I couldn't possibly deny that t...more
A great behind-the-scenes of the animated movie, Brave, from its start to finish. I enjoyed highlight moments especially of the pre-production team. Such as moments where Brenda Chapman and the other fellow artists designed the different characters and landscapes. It really displayed the hard and soft visuals that exist in Scotland's environments. I would have liked to have seen even more early character designs, but they kept it close to the heart of the film. Still I loved the stylization, par...more
This a gorgeous book!
Introduced by John Lasseter, and with a forward by the film's co-directors Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews, The Art Of Brave shows off the superb conceptual art, including storyboards, character studies and environmental art from artists like Steve Pilcher, Noah Klocek, Daniel Lopez Munoz, Mike Mignola and many more, plus sculptures by Greg Dykstra and Andrea Blasich along with gorgeous photos of the behind the scenes process of making the film.
Be warned though, as it featu...more
Introduced by John Lasseter, and with a forward by the film's co-directors Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews, The Art Of Brave shows off the superb conceptual art, including storyboards, character studies and environmental art from artists like Steve Pilcher, Noah Klocek, Daniel Lopez Munoz, Mike Mignola and many more, plus sculptures by Greg Dykstra and Andrea Blasich along with gorgeous photos of the behind the scenes process of making the film.
Be warned though, as it featu...more
The plot of the movie was not at all what I was expecting from the trailers and movie title but this has got to be one of the nicest Disney Pixar's art-books ! Beautiful environment drawings, color scripts and characters sketches. Every page is filled with whimsy and fun. I love it !
You don't have to see the movie (Wait, scratch that! Watch the movie first!) to appreciate the behind the scenes of the designs and story behind Brave.
And believe me when I say the pictures are BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL!
You can't help but stare at them all day!
And believe me when I say the pictures are BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL!
You can't help but stare at them all day!
I have watched this story's movie, really it was great great, I did not raise my eyes from the screen, everything in it was well done, I recommend it surely,I 'll see if I find this book in our libraries......
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Gorgeous as all the art was, I felt like there could have been more. I'm glad I didn't read this before seeing the movie, though, because there are spoilers in it. Just something to be aware of!
Giuliana: The text was mostly boring, some of it was interesting, and I loved the pictures. You could look at the pictures while listening to an audiobook or music.
Got this as a present from a close friend. It's spectacular, but took me ages to get through because my daughters kept stealing it off my night table.
I'm waiting for the movie to come out before I open the book. I don't want to accidentally spoil myself but I already know the book and the movie will be amazing.
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I saw the movie and it was great! The overall energy of the film was peppier and more wittier than past films. The animation style and story developement reminded me of DreamWorks. I liked Brave (especially Merida's hair - amazing!) and can't wait for the next film :)
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I saw the movie and it was great! The overall energy of the film was peppier and more wittier than past films. The animation style and story developement reminded me of DreamWorks. I liked Brave (especially Merida's hair - amazing!) and can't wait for the next film :)
Lots of beautiful artwork but at same time, the ones for the color script were too small.
Gorgeous book for a wonderful movie--totally worth getting!
so pretty and inspiring! excited for the movie
Crystal tears streaming down my face.
good novel
Aug 22, 2012
George Seminara
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A gorgeous book. I love these behind the scenes Disney books. I don't have them all but this one attracted me from the first. Great work!
Amazing art work, beautiful book.
It was great. five stars if u don't expect certain things. but as I was hoping for more, only 3.
p.s. it's full of spoilers
p.s. it's full of spoilers
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