The Art of Brave is available at Amazon ( US | CA | UK | DE | FR | IT | ES | JP | CN) and Book Depository The whole video is a spoiler, so you'll want to skip that if you don't want spoilers. I've filtered out all the spoiler parts except for the video. Highly recommended for fans of Pixar and animation art.īelow are some pictures from the book. Overall, it's a wonderful book put together by author Jenny Lerew. So there's bits and pieces of spoilers throughout. The book doesn't really talk about the story as a whole, but the text do cover the characters and their development. Other artists included are Carter Goodrich, Steve Purcell, Noah Klocek, Matt Nolte and more. They really bring the characters and places to life. His pencil drawings really beautiful and dimensional.

Steve Pilcher is the production designer and there's a lot of his charming drawings included. There are a few pages of storyboard sequences that are really great, even without words you know the chemistry between the characters and how they are feeling. They have all sorts of characteristics and shapes that make them stand out. The characters and art are delightful to look at. The colour choices are quite muted, perhaps to give more contrast to Merida. It's interesting to see a mythical and worn landscape as designed for animation. The environment designs are a bit dark but that's because the movie is set in ancient Scotland.

There are character designs, environment drawings, sculpts, storyboards and colorscript. The concept art is great and you can really feel that everything really fits well together, the characters, the landscape and the stories. The book's 160 pages and it's all filled with art and commentary. This is number 13 for Pixar if anyone's counting. This is a lovely art book for the movie Brave.

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