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Artbooks & Gaming books |OT| A new era, a new shelf
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The Art of God of War arrived today. Very nice book. There's some great work by Vance Kovacs and Justin Sweet in there, I remember them doing concept art for Black Isle back in the day. The other artists are also fantastic, of course. It was just a pleasant surprise to see the old Black Isle artists' work on GoW.
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Oooooh shit, didn't know Justin worked on the game. He's amazing. I'm excited to finish the game just so I can finally open the book :)
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Yup, currently Japanese only. They translated the Awakening artbook (though it took literally 4 years) so I hope it'll come out in English eventually
What's it called, and how much art is in it? I love Hidari's stuff.
Valentia accordion (amazon jp link). It has character artwork for all playable characters and full portrait artwork for every character (including bosses) and concept artwork and stuff, from what I've seen
There's a few pictures in the quoted post below. I can take more pictures when I get home as well.
It's over 200 pages of just art. This includes completed art for characters, rough sketches, storyboards for the cut scenes, weapon and item designs, and background illustrations. The text seems to mostly be on the character profiles and story for the game, so if you've already played I don't think you'll miss out on much.
The last 30 pages are extras in Japanese, which include support conversations and staff notes.
I think there's also a few Atelier art books that contain his work there as well.
Any chance you could post the cover for me? I'm getting the Soejima book soon, so I'll be able to order both at the same time! :)
The Atelier books were out of stock last I checked on Amazon JP. :(
I just got this book myself. Very nice concept art etc in it.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/金子一馬画集II-復..._rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=Q593ZFW000DAE9SDKZDJ
So that's the second of Kazuma Kaneko Works getting a reprint, I'm hoping they will continue and do a reprint of III as well.
So that's the second of Kazuma Kaneko Works getting a reprint, I'm hoping they will continue and do a reprint of III as well.
All the books I had in my cart now deliver to the US, so at least over here things are fine again.
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Not for games, they usually drop a few weeks after a game releases, cant tell for movies
Received my copy of Legend of Final Fantasy VII the other day. I haven't read any of the books from these guys before so if its good I plan to pick up some of their other titles.
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Zelda Breath of the Wild : Master Works is being translated by Dark Horse
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Pre-orders up on Amazon
let's hope they have the same glorious ivory and shiny blue cover of the japanese edition :
Looks like Rockstar and Rizzoli pushed back the Red Dead Redemption 2 art book a week. Now scheduled for release on November 6th.
Also I haven't shared my hauls in a while but my LE art book for God of War arrived little over a week ago.
Another great addition to the GoW line of art books. Dark Horse even gives you a digital copy of the book too.
Also I haven't shared my hauls in a while but my LE art book for God of War arrived little over a week ago.
Another great addition to the GoW line of art books. Dark Horse even gives you a digital copy of the book too.
Didn't know there was a RDR2 artbook coming. Is it up for pre order? Any link to get more info? Can't find anything on amazon.
Amazon and other retailers listed it a couple of weeks ago, but Rockstar quickly clamped down and all the info was removed. Here's the Amazon link and the saved description.
https://www.amazon.com/Random-House...02-20&linkId=75dfa9ac38e9a2add219a0ce8d3b1c9f
Is this exclusive to a certain store? Amazon doesn't have it. Hope it's not too late.
I just got the Art of Horizon Zero Dawn book and I gotta say I'm pretty disappointed in the low quality of some of the images. There are full-page images in the book that are extremely grainy and in some cases even pixelated. Pretty discouraging, given that I paid full MSRP for it. I wish the Machines got more coverage, like concept art for each unique machine or something.
Yeah it was only available through the PlayStation gear store and is now unavailable.
https://gear.playstation.com/en-us/
Oh nvm, looks like ThinkGeek has it. They were fulfilling orders for the Playstation store, figures they had a few copies on their own website.
Thanks. Managed to find it on Amazon Spain with the ISBN code, pre ordered lol
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Is this really Master Works ? It looks different and has a different name...
I was disapointed too, I expected something more akin to the art of Killzone. They focus on small details of the tribe in the Art of Horizon and it makes sens because they are the beating heart of their new incredible world and the work done is greatly presented in the book but I wanted to geek more over the machines and I was a bit bummed we didn't see much iterations on their designs. Part of it must be due to the fact that most fo their designs came from an outside freelance artists that kinda got shafted in the credits of the game...
I haven't gone through the whole book yet but noticed the same things. I read/looked through the first 40 pages and while the information was neat, some of the images weren't sharp at all. I'll have to go back and go through the rest of the book.
Yikes. Was originally planning on getting that, but I guess I dodged a bullet. Real shame it turned out like that.
This looks great. Wish we got a complete list of the cities to be featured though.
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As a video game map nerd, this is foocking right in my alley lol amazing
Edit : Backed !
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Hey guys, I'm not sure how old this is, but I haven't seen anyone mention it. Dark Horses translation of Vol 2 of Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive is up for preorder now.
Before people upset themselves Ultimania Archives is the series of Artbooks covering the whole FF series in 3 volumes not to be confused with the Ultimania books that were guides/companion pieces to individual games. I saw a surprising number of people get confused/upset when Vol 1 was announced so I'm nipping that in the bud right now.
Anyway I'm super excited for this, if I'm honest I prefer the SNES FFs, but I think Amano did his best work during this middle period.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1506706622/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Before people upset themselves Ultimania Archives is the series of Artbooks covering the whole FF series in 3 volumes not to be confused with the Ultimania books that were guides/companion pieces to individual games. I saw a surprising number of people get confused/upset when Vol 1 was announced so I'm nipping that in the bud right now.
Anyway I'm super excited for this, if I'm honest I prefer the SNES FFs, but I think Amano did his best work during this middle period.
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Kotaku did a piece on the upcoming Virtual Cities book :
https://kotaku.com/video-game-atlas-has-over-40-maps-of-your-favourite-cit-1826210363
Nice coverage, it seemed to have brought some backer to the project.
https://kotaku.com/video-game-atlas-has-over-40-maps-of-your-favourite-cit-1826210363
Nice coverage, it seemed to have brought some backer to the project.
10 cities have been confirmed:
https://unbound.com/books/virtual-cities/updates/10-virtual-cities-cities-revealed
...aaaand, there goes my 46€
Should we start a separate thread for this Virtual Cities book to raise awareness and funds?
Talk about burying the lead, they've already confirmed Half-Life 2's City 17, Grand Theft Auto V's Los Santos, Yakuza's Kamurocho, Fallout's New Vegas, Silent Hill as some of their "starters".
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Definitely into this.
I disagree. I have The Sky and I have only looked through the third volume once. I think his Famicom-era art is his best work. Not sure if I need to pick up the first Ultimania.