Achieve The Cinematic Art Of World Of Warcraft: The Wrath Of The Lich King Originated By Blizzard Entertainment Listed As Paper Copy
fans have been waiting more than two years for WRATH OF THE LICH KING the latest addition to World of Warcraft.
Now, they can experience Northrends icy steppes and uncharted mountains through the art and imagination of the creative team behind this epic game.
Containing more thandrawings, concept art pieces, and final renders, as well as secrets of game mythology and development stories, this mesmerizing book reveals how Blizzard Entertainments acclaimed series gets made.
In addition to a behindthescenes technical look at the game cinematics and developmental art, Fans learn how Blizzard updated Arthas the Death Knight to be even more evil than in Warcraft III and how a new central character, Sindragosa the Frost Wyrm, was developed.
Other features explore technical dimensions and Blizzards influence on the game world and beyond, EACH BOOK COMES WITH: Two” x” original art cards in vellum sleeve and apage illustrated storybook on the creation of the frostwyrm Sindragosa, that make this a musthave for any WoW fan.
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The publisher of this book is Insights Editions, one of my favourite publishers.
Their art books always have extra goodies, at least for the ones I bought, In this case,
there are two” x” original art cards in a tippedinvellum sleeve and apage booklet on the creation of Sindragosa.
This is a paperback book and the binding doesn't look strong sitelinksee an example.
Strangely, no hardcover version alternative is available, The pages are rather glossy and oily fingers will definitely leave smudges, They are given the silvercolor treatment and the text printed on these silver "plates" is extremely classy.
The book details the production process of the animation in great detail, There is conceptualization, story development, character development, production design and even theD execution, To make the book complete, they also included how they did the soundtrack and audio,
On the art side, it starts off with storyboards on the introduction of Tuskassr and Lich King's entrance.
Following that are pages of characters, armour, monsters, dragons and environment paintings, There's a generous amount of concept art on Sindragosa and the undead, Also included are multiple screenshots of theirD creation process like creating matte paintings, composition, animating, rendering, etc.
This book is literally packed with artwork,
Blizzard has done a tremendous job with the book and with their game, They have brought together a brilliant team of artists to showcase their talent to the world.
The Cinematic Art of World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King is a stunning art book.
I recommend it to all fans of World of Warcraft, or any fantasy concept artists,
This review was first published on sitelinkparkablogs, com. There are more pictures and videos on my blog, Gorgeous preliminary and polished art for "Wrath of the Lich King" expansion, I picked this up on a whim because I'm a fan of concept art and I thought the cover was cool.
I actually started playing World of Warcraft AFTER I got the book, You'd think a cinematic that runs aboutminutes andseconds wouldn't been enough to make a whole book about.
But man it is! There are a lot of pictures here, but that's not a bad thing.
It's utterly flabbergasting the amount of work, love and surely some blood, sweat and tears went into the creation of the Lich King, the dragon Sindragrosa and their environment.
The concept art was probably my favorite part, You get to see tons of beautifully rendered art, The section on the actual construction of the CGI images is also fascinating for someone who knows only the basics of how this work is done.
An elaboration on some of the more technical passages might have been nice but it doesn't detract from the book.
My copy, at least, seems to have a printing error, A couple pages are printed twice, There doesn't seem to be any pages missing that I can tell, however, There are two prints included which are very nice and a small illustrated in pencil story of Sindragrosa.
The silverth color used on some of the pages is subtle and well done, but lends an air of class to the whole book.
Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.
The company is well known for creating the Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch franchises, and regularly publishes related novels, comics, and art books.
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