23 Jan 22:33
--Ah, I remembered, there's one book I like, although it has zero process and it's like a series of character posters. I really dig some of the featured artists and approaches, it's called heroes and heroines, a collection of character art from some animes and games
23 Jan 22:32
--I find them the strongest, concept wise, not art wise, but hey, it's monster hunter, a monster, his armor and his weapon are equally memorable
23 Jan 22:31
--Same goes for weapons. Personally, I find the monsters to be it's "weakest" point
23 Jan 22:31
--and then you have the second illustrations book, and the cgworks, and the one for the next monster hunter etc. lol
23 Jan 22:30
--monster hunter is unbelievable. I mean, you browse through pages and pages of armor and you're like "they couldn't possibly design more" and then you browse through like another hundred lol
23 Jan 22:30
--I try to not make a differenciation between anime art and western, with monster hunter for example, it's really good painters that know their fundamentals who just happen to do manga style for this saga, or for themselves too idk good art is good art
23 Jan 22:29
--Yeah I usually buy artbooks for the art, I haven't played black flag, nor I'm expecting to
23 Jan 22:29
--monster hunter is attracting my attention too, i want to know more about that butterfly armor haha
23 Jan 22:28
--that destiny one looks nice too, i dont like shooters, but there is a lot of Jaime Jones and Kekai stuff on it
23 Jan 22:28
--This year I've bought the asassins creed black flag one, zelda and monster hunter, all three are awesome
23 Jan 22:27
--I just want two artbooks this year, Dark souls and the recently reprinted Xenogears perfect works, this last one is full of stuff not only artwork, to bad its only in japanese
23 Jan 22:27
--avery coleman also worked on darksiders, and another one whom I can't remember
23 Jan 22:25
--I have about 8 or 9 artbooks, instructionals included, there's bad stuff in anime and western, iviceversa, idk, japanese videogame artbooks usually have anime style and have what I'm looking for, but tv anime artbooks are sometimes shit.
23 Jan 22:24
--And I've heard a lot of praise for Darksiders and Halo 4 art books. I don't know whether to take a leap of faith, I mean, I am not a fan of the games, do they transcend that succesfully?:)
23 Jan 22:22
--Speaking of artbooks, I've got the impressions that anime(ish) artbooks generally contain more of the stuff I would wish an artbook to have (when we disregard the fact that I like anime per se). They tend to have characters, props, footnotes, like "his silhouette was boring so he got a hat" and all that stuff which is actually helpful. Western ones do that too sometimes, but more often than not you get a lot of pretty pages. Then again, I don't have that many art books:)
23 Jan 22:17
--I mean, it's really something when you design an armor made of butterflies and it looks awesome and not silly:D
23 Jan 22:15
--I actually never heard of it, I bought the book after eyeballing it on http://www.parkablogs.com/
23 Jan 22:13
--Uhh, I am a huge monster hunter fan, I can't wait to see the armor and weapon designs
23 Jan 22:12
--You'll be speechless when you encounter quantity and quality of armor designs in MH, so prepare yourself:D
23 Jan 22:11
--Really true concerning the movie concept art, well, I have to go, I have 2 books to read hehe
23 Jan 22:11
--yeeeah, there is a movie artbook sickbrush mentioned in the heaven's hell streaming that has the true process printed out, some of the pages are just concept scribles
23 Jan 22:10
--But monster hunter pretty much nailed it. I have a friend that's concept artist and he strongly dislikes anime style, design and all derivatives and when he saw the book he immediatelly ordered a copy lol
