The Art Of Star warfare : The Clone Wars . ( Chronicle Books 2009 ) 272 pages of awesome conception art and beautiful vistas .
Interior page from The Art Of Star Wars : The Clone Wars , viaParka81 on Flickr .
Star Wars : 1,000 Collectibles : Memorabilia and Stories from a Galaxy Far , Far Away A sensational 568 Page worth of toy dog , memorabilia and weird products , including a giant Lego statue , Boba Fett Pez dispenser , and “ Cream Of Jawa ” soup . Umm , Eww ?
A.I. Artificial Intelligence : From Stanley Kubrick to Steven Spielberg : The Vision Behind the Film Wow , how did we miss that this ledger came out a few months ago ? wedge full of concept art by original creative person Chris Baker , this book traces the phylogenesis of A.I. from Kubrick ’s original concepts to Spielberg ’s net execution . Plus excerption from Kubrick ’s fabled notebooks , and stills from the finished photographic film .
The Pixarpedia — aimed at younger readers , this nevertheless sound like something you ’ll want to have on display , with 300 Sir Frederick Handley Page of huge prototype from all of Pixar ’s films , include behind - the - scene information and bios of real Pixar employee .
incarnation : An Activist Survival Guide by James Cameron . Just in case you were n’t certain that James Cameron pass right smart too much meter thinking up the fauna of Pandora for his new skill - fabrication epos , he ’s put out a complete guidebook . Hours of xenobiology fun . Scan fromBlack Book Magazine .
The Art Of Avatar . If you ’d rather just marvel at the jillions of beautiful aim and concept images this movie engender , then check out out this book , which is deserving hr of slobber . Wefeatured a short ton of imagesfrom this book a while back , but there ’s tons more where those come from .
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The Art Of Star Trek . We alreadyfeatured some exclusive concept artfrom this Word of God a while back , and it ’s full of tons of other swell hooey , include other looks at the dissimilar reading of the ice-skating rink giant , and enough spaceship designs and blaze action paintings . It opens up the already - exciting population of this moving-picture show still further , and you ’ll be focus over it for hour . I think of your friends will .
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The Complete Vader . If you want a Star Wars book that does n’t waste your fourth dimension with Ewoks or Ahsoka , then this is for you . 192 Thomas Nelson Page of nothing but Vader , tracing his evolution from the beginning , as well as his life as an inflatable punching bag and so much more .
Interior varlet from The Complete Vader . Learn what Vader was up to in 1973 — believably smoking a bunch of weed , which excuse the breathing . ViaBattlegrip .
More pages from the Complete Vader viaBattlegrip . Even more scans at the connection .
head On And We take : The qualification Of Where The Wild Things Are . A elaborate look at the making of this vivid film , including product resume , storyboards , drafting and behind - the - scenes photo , plus audience with Maurice Sendak , Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze , among others .
Original production chalk out , from Heads On And We bourgeon .
Watchmen : The artistic creation Of The Film . This was another movie that generated scores of astonishing world - construction , as a team of artists struggle to bring Dave Gibbons ’ visual sensation to shoot Seth and airscrew . There are C of page of jaw - dropping construct artistic creation and storyboards .
The Art Of Monsters Vs . Aliens . This Dreamworks 3 - D animated plastic film featured some nice designs , including the prominent water flea golem and the alien starship … and it turns out there was some arresting conception art father , as you may glimpse from our next range .
Here ’s a couple page from the book , showing the amazing concept artwork , including one really nice alien starship interior . viaParka81 on Flickr .
watchman : Portraits . Photographer Clay Enos deal to snatch up some incredible shots of the moving-picture show ’s characters in costume , and it ’s portrayal prowess of the eminent order . Weposted an undivided image from this book a while back , and there are century more unbelievable images of major and minor character from the film .
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Tim Burton . The fellow traveller book of account to the Museum Of Modern Art exhibition , this have oodles and rafts of Burton ’s survey , from childhood to today , plus construct nontextual matter , stills , puppets and maquettes , storyboards and more .
Universal Studios Monsters : A Legacy Of Horror . This is 252 pages of harebrained details about the heyday of oecumenical monster movies , from the 1920s to the fifties . Dracula , Frankenstein and Creature From The Black Lagoon all get their stories state , with behind - the - scenes photos and lavish shot .
The Batman Vault : A Museum - in - a - Book with Rare Collectibles from the Batcave . include “ removable artifact , ” as well as never - before - seen sketches and plans . It ’s the complete story of Batman in all culture medium , and apparently it takes the “ museum in a book ” affair seriously by trying to present scores of cool artifacts .
The Halo Encyclopedia . edit out by Tobias Buckell with intro by game developer Frank O’Connor , this book details the origin of the games , plus characters , weapons , vehicle , equipment and various positioning . 352 pages of art and Apocalypse .
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