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The Art of Howl's Moving Castle | 
| Author: Hayao Miyazaki
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $34.99
Buy Used: $16.99
You Save: $18.00 (51%)
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 63705
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.5 x 1
ISBN: 1421500493
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4334
UPC: 782009230434
EAN: 9781421500492
ASIN: 1421500493
Publication Date: July 5, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Unmarked; has been taped along spine but is otherwise good
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Product Description
A hardbound, prestige format book with a generous collection of concept sketches, fully rendered character and background drawings, paintings and cell images. Along with the stunning visuals, the book also presents interviews and comments with the production staff, including key points from the director.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
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 A Neat Keepsake for Miyazaki Fans April 7, 2008
Golden-Flute
The Art of Howl's Moving Castle is a large, hardback book, and is chock full of information and pictures from the amazing movie by Hayao Miyazaki.
This book begins with hundreds of concept sketches by Miyazaki, containing location scenes and characters with notes. The concept sketches go in order of appearance from the movie, so the concept sketches for Sophie come at the beginning, for example, while the concept sketches for Human Turnip show up near the end. There are thousands of gorgeous location scenes as well plus short bios on some of the creators of the movie and a few articles that discuss the creaters' experiences working on the film. Also, at the very end is the complete final screenplay to read through. The screenplay has a few minor changes in it from where the English actors improvised a little (especially Billy Crystal), but otherwise, is exactly from the movie.
Being a student of film and the arts, I found this book extremely helpful and interesting, because it showed the creative process of a huge movie. I would definitely recommend it to any film or arts students to browse through if they wan to get an idea of what kind of work it takes to create such a monumental film!
The only qualm I have with this book is that there were hundreds of screenshots. Not that that's bad, especially if you want to buy this book to revisit the movie, but I would like to have seen a few more sketches and whatnot, or at least a few more articles on how the particular scenes with the screenshots were made.
That aside, I fell in love with this book and was enchanted from front cover to back cover.
Don't Let The Cover Sketch Scare You Away September 27, 2007
Kathy S. Luzzi (Bethesda, MD USA)
This book opens a world of anime art like none other. Primary characters & secondary characters are carefully drawn out and walk through a world & story created for them. As a professional artist, I found great interest in the prelimiary drawings straight through the setting concepts. This is also a great book for fans of the movie. If you loved the movie, you will love this book.
A Visual Feast ! June 16, 2007
Janine Bolon (Cedar City, Utah)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I totally enjoyed the layout and discussion in this book. I have been a Miyazaki fan ever since, "My Neighbor Totoro" which I saw when I lived in Japan. If you relish animation and all the details of this art form, you'll like the format and attention this book gives.
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The Art of Howl's Moving Castle April 6, 2007
Claudia Cazorla
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you loved the movie, you will love this book, The Art of Howl's Moving Castle it's hard cover, with original sketches, storyboards and the final screenplay!
The book explains every step of the complex story, from the original book adaptation to the final movie. Also have quotes and articles from creators of each process (designers, art directors, supervising animators, etc.) It's like seeing the movie scene by scene with artist commentaries.
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