El Arte De Watchmen/ The Art Of Watchmen

by Peter Aperlo

Bastaron algunas fotografías promocionales para que todo el mundo se diera cuenta de que Zack Snyder iba en serio con WATCHMEN . La fidelidad casi absoluta al cómic original dejó al público boquiabierto, cuyo asombro creció aún más con la llegada del primer tráiler.

EL ARTE DE WATCHMEN contiene gran parte de la fórmula del éxito de esta producción, una recopilación inmensa del arduo trabajo de todo el equipo artístico del film.

Más de 250 páginas de contenido. Fotografías y diseños de vestuario, atrezo, escenarios... Storyboard de Zack Snyder . Nuevos dibujos de Dave Gibbons y otros artistas.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Comics

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

A former naval officer, Peter was already a published author in the rather disparate realms of Scandinavian archaeology and pen-and-paper role-playing games when he was tapped to pen the books Watchmen: The Art of the Film, Watchmen: The Official Film Companion, and 300: Rise of an Empire: The Art of the Film. His most recent movie book is Chappie: The Art of the Movie, based on the film by District 9 director Neill Blomkamp.
His extensive background in Viking culture and history served him well when writing The Unofficial Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Companion, due out from Ulysses Press in September, 2015.
He also scripted the narration for the PSP game 300: March to Glory, and was responsible for the stories and screenplays for the games Watchmen: The End is Nigh and The Guardians of Ga’Hoole. His horror/thriller feature film (co-written with and directed by Clay Staub, produced by Scott Mednick), Devil’s Gate, is in post-production.

Reviews

[Eva B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

The most interesting bit for me was all of the alt-history related stuff they came up with for the movie

[Parka · Rating 5 out of 5]

(More pictures on my blog)

Here's a look at Watchmen: The Art of the Film, one of the three tie-in books for the Watchmen movie. The other two being Watchmen: Portraits and Watchmen: The Official Film Companion. The other two I probably won't be getting.

Peter Aperlo, the author, has included a lot more visual content other than art illustrations in the book, all packing in to make it a rather thick book at 256 pages. It's well constructed and bind. Pages are thick low gloss with good colour reproduction.

There are five chapters in the book, namely Concept Art, Sets, Props, Owlship, Costumes and Posters. All pretty self explanatory.

First off, the art. These come in the form of character designs, storyboards (cute but not detailed) and beat board illustrations. There isn't as much art as I expected, the art in this book is seriously overwhelmed by photographs. Well, Dave Gibbons has already done most of the concept art in the comic.

The photos are shots of sets, locations, props, miniatures, film stills etc. To list a few, there are detailed close up of newspapers, New York wall graffiti, Blake's costume wardrobe and other miscellaneous items and backgrounds that appear in the movie. There are several unused concepts shown also.

I really enjoyed looking at all the gadgets, prop and location shots. They really give depth to movie adaption of the comic. I bet they will have even more meaning after I watch the movie.

There's not a lot of text other than the chapter introductions and short captions. It doesn't really need that much text anyway.

This book is highly recommended for Watchmen fans, comic and movie. It's well worth the money. I like it very much.

This review was first published on parkablogs.com. There are more pictures and videos on my blog.

[Dennis Lynch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Impressive collection of storyboards, preproduction art and stills from the film, based on the comic book by Gibbons and Moore.

[James Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great pics, great behind the scenes insight...great book!

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great companion to the novel and the movie. Explores the details you may have missed in the film and book. Masterpiece.

[Elliott · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Laurie wants to be taken seriously…… so we put her in a latex outfit that exposes her crotch”

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

So I finally got it - I am a sucker for concept art from films and this is one of the best ones - love or hate the film (me I liked it, but I know there are many out there who hated it - and yes it was supposed to be the story that could never be made in to a film with all those legends about it in tow) this book is lavishly illustrated with not only stock images from the film but concept work and unused pieces too. I think what I love about this book the most is that it has taken the images from the classic graphic novel and turned them in to stunningly realistic images of a world that could have been. To me this gives a depth and level of realism that was so often over looked in the film. Well worth the wait and the hunt if you ask me.

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this book for my birthday but never found enough time afterward to sit down and peruse it properly from beginning to end. This is a lot better than the other "Art of [such and such film:]" books that have been released in recent times, with a rich pool of sketches, storyboards and prototypes, from elaborate sets of alternate 1985 to the sleek and dynamic costumes and brash poster designs. A must-have for the Watchmen film fan.

Rating: 4.5/5

[Evan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book got my soooo psyched to see the movie this weekend!

[Noel Manhattan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finalizado. Otro gran libro del que he obtenido un buen montón de información. Tengo una barbaridad de ideas para llevar a cabo proyectos.

[Shehani John · Rating 5 out of 5]

If that wasn't an amazing insight to the movie I don't know what is!