it's printed on some amazing different types of paper and it has interesting good quotes by Shinkawa. There's also some fold-outs of various promotional art pieces, such as the cyber ninja.
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Artbooks - The Best And The Worst
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it's printed on some amazing different types of paper and it has interesting good quotes by Shinkawa. There's also some fold-outs of various promotional art pieces, such as the cyber ninja.
sleazefrenzy
Member
Is it in both Japanese and English? Most copies I've seen have Japanese writing on the cover and back.
Mine is in English but I got it like 10 years ago on the Konami store when that was still a thing.
RagingAvatar
Member
Yeah I've got it at home - I'll try to remember to publish some photos tonight.
Human Trashcan
Banned
This is one of my favorites
It's an artbook not even of WotLK, but specifically JUST the intro CGI. The entire process of making it, all the concept art, renders, interviews with the people who made it, storyboards, everything.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I see. It was a gift for me so price wasn't a factor, but I guess I can see why people would be disappointed if it was more expensive than Souls books and had less content.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
The OST is amazing. Also, both those two books will form Emil's complete head on their spines. I'm not helping I know, but just to let you know.
I guess I have to get all of them then. lol
*sigh* Would be nice to have 2B herself signed them had I gotten them sooner.
NintendosBooger
Member
Dead Space saga artbook is 16$ on amazon.us
You should check this out.
I'm so salty about these incredible amazon.us prices on these books...
Received this in the mail yesterday.
It's fucking legit.
Each page is occupied with wonderful sketches and art reflecting grisly horror and science-fiction themes coupled with descriptions by the designers.
I wish more artbooks of this sort made an equally concentrated effort to explain what the image is, not just show it.
bobawesome
Member
400 pages of beautiful Type-Moon related art. Okay, there are interviews and products in there as well. But still!
UnluckyKate
Member
The Art and Design of FINAL FANTASY XV is made my Cook & Becker (art dealer, making high end prints in Amsterdam, they also did the Killzone and Sonic artbook, both amazing in quality and content) :
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=247272086#post247272086
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=247272086#post247272086
The Art of Gwent showed up today. Overall it's a really nice book. It basically shows almost all the cards of Gwent sorted by deck type. Almost all images have a title, brief description and artist name. I do think it would be cool to see some concept art or rough sketches before the finalized images. If you're a fan of the Witcher series you'll probably really like this.
Salty Rice
Member
The release date for the Art of Persona 5 from Prima changed once again.
Amazon UK changed the date to december and Amazon Germany to november.
Guess that thing will never come out.
Amazon UK changed the date to december and Amazon Germany to november.
Guess that thing will never come out.
UnluckyKate
Member
smh. they will announce something in TGS and they just post phone the art book release to treat us with added content from the inevitable Rouge Edition ?
Right ?
Right ?
NHarmonic.
Member
I'll forever regret missing the art of skyrim
Anyone got the Horizon: Zero Dawn artbook?
Anyone got the Horizon: Zero Dawn artbook?
I'll forever regret missing the art of skyrim
Anyone got the Horizon: Zero Dawn artbook?
At least one user:
It was kind of under the radar. They announced it back at the beginning of the year for a March or May release and then quietly kicked the release date back to September, only knew about the delay because Amazon sent along the usual e-mail for that type of thing, don't think CDPR ever formally announced the delay.
Nocturnowl
Member
Shovel Knight book out soon I think, I've got my eye on that one.
I'm still waiting for its price to leap up when it does get a firm release date, the current price is way too good!
I'm still waiting for its price to leap up when it does get a firm release date, the current price is way too good!
UnluckyKate
Member
Found the Battlefield 4 artbook for 5$ in a thrift shop. I dont care at all for BF4 but these things never show up in the thrift shop around here.
copy pasted my comments from 2 pages earlier :
The best part is truly the collection or work on Alloy and all the iterations in all art form. I wish we had that much details for the machines for example !
I'll forever regret missing the art of skyrim
Anyone got the Horizon: Zero Dawn artbook?
copy pasted my comments from 2 pages earlier :
It's a nice book. But it lack concept studies and trial & error.
It's basically a world art book, in the sens that it shows in details the work put in the final game. It shows details on the different tribes, their style, people, armor, houses, weapons... with great text explaining design decisions, philosophies and focus...
But it feels like a collection, not like a creative process, with the progress, the errors, the exploration around shapes, colors, forms... And I like that in my artbooks but this one just is not about that.
I would still, recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the game. It's beautiful and its really paying tribute to the amazing work and details done on the game's massive universe, on the tribes, the locations, the housings, the armors...
But like any good artbook, the more it shows, the more it lacks because it can't show EVEYRTHING
The best part is truly the collection or work on Alloy and all the iterations in all art form. I wish we had that much details for the machines for example !
UnluckyKate
Member
Final (?) cover for the western edition of P5's artbook :
Now scheduled for late October \o/
Now scheduled for late October \o/
PsihoPerihelion
Member
Oh shit, I paid for that artbook in like April and I'm still waiting.Final (?) cover for the western edition of P5's artbook :
Now scheduled for late October o/
tiebreaker
Member
Final (?) cover for the western edition of P5's artbook :
Now scheduled for late October o/
Still kinda disappointed that it's not from Udon. It doesn't match with artbooks from 3 and 4.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
this book is beautiful
As a contender for worst art book I submit that dinky little thing that came with the FFXIII-2 special edition. It was postcard-sized and might have had 16 pages, can't even remember if it had that many.
Pretty disappointing +when the art is the thing the XIII games had going for them the most.
Pretty disappointing +when the art is the thing the XIII games had going for them the most.
Final (?) cover for the western edition of P5's artbook :
Now scheduled for late October o/
That cover is not great.
Freezasaurus
Member
I think they missed the boat. I'm over P5 at this point. If they had this out in a nice hardcover within a few weeks of the game release, they would have my money by now.
Etrian Oddity
Member
Mos def my favorite artbook
Freezasaurus
Member
I remember that one. That was from before the Enix merger.
The JP artbook seems to have more pages and also uses new artwork for the cover too. Prima Games, pls.
Freezasaurus
Member
I'm never over great games and great art
I think I just got too burnt out on it by the end.
Wait, more pages? Really? If so I definitely need to get that one instead.
Final (?) cover for the western edition of P5's artbook :
Now scheduled for late October o/
Delayed again and an incredibly crappy (and kind of sexist?) cover. They could've simply ripped the JP artbook but no.
I'll probably just buy this version then.
NHarmonic.
Member
Oh so it has the Loish's concept pieces of Alloy then?
Has something happened to Udon? I can't find anything official, but their official website hasn't been updated in years and it's been a long time since I've heard about any new releases from them.
It seems at least their facebook page has some activity, did they just stop doing artbooks and are only doing comics now?
It seems at least their facebook page has some activity, did they just stop doing artbooks and are only doing comics now?
Freezasaurus
Member
The localized Bloodborne book came out not long ago. But yeah, they seem much less active now than they used to. You have other companies like Dark Horse and Titan Books stepping up now and putting out really good quality artbooks, so it's not as noticeable as it could be.
I'd hazard a guess that the fees for licensing and localizing Japanese game artbooks magically shot way up when Hyrule Historia was topping Amazon and NYT Bestsellers' lists.
Freezasaurus
Member
Well, let's be honest. Dark Horse has been putting more care into their artbooks than Udon has in the past.
Ah I didn't know they did the Bloodborne book, (although based on peoples impressions it sounds like less than what I used to expect from them). I guess now with more competition they don't stand out as much, still doesn't explain why they can't update their website once in a while.
I'm holding out hope they'll reprint their Persona 3/4 books but that might not happen, at least they're not dead that's good.
Ultimadrago
Member
Mine just came in. Seems solid so far!
I guess, but they've hardly done a ton of artbooks for Japanese games. I'll take a packed slate of no-frills localized releases over one or two flowery releases a year.
Udon backing off more than likely means that artbooks they might have been interested in just won't come out here at all, not that someone else will pick all those books up and do a better job. And the quality could go the other way, too; I damn sure trusted Udon's work more than I do Prima's.
Freezasaurus
Member
The BloodBorne book was pretty bare-bones. The cover felt pretty cheap, too. I don't even know if they're going to localize the Dark Souls III Design Works that came out in Japan recently.
Everlya_Apocryha
Banned
Some recent purchases from Amazon
Freezasaurus
Member
How is the Last Guardian book? There have been a few I've skipped out on simply because I hate the landscape format for artbooks.
UnluckyKate
Member
Its not a traditional artbook. Its more like a post mortem book and playthrough with a dev commentary of every chapter. Sure it has great art & sketches but its almost half of a book you read than you look at.
It's an incredible read too. If you were moved by the game, get it its a must. If like me, you weren't that much moved by the game in the end, but still wanted to know more about this 10 years long adventure to make this anticipated gem, give it a try, it gave me a totally fresh look, incredibly deeper understanding of the game's vision, tone, themes, inspirations, intended goals and more...
It does an incredible job a humanizing a game, a project, with its entire team of creator behind it.
I think its a must read.
Yes ! Many of them !
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Without Udon that means less Capcom artbooks.