World War Z: The Art of the Film

The movie World War Z was a great 'zombie' action flick. Brad Pitt is the star and his company produced the film. $200 million to make and two years just to computer animate the zombies. This film book goes into all the aspects of the film and the production art and photos are beautifully reproduced. This is probably the lowest priced film art book I've ever purchased and found the quality outweighs the price. Incidentally, the photo on the cover is one of the most intense scenes in the film. If you enjoy reading about the making of a film and seeing how it all comes together, then you'll really enjoy this book. You can also purchase the cover photo as a one-sheet poster through Amazon.com. I have the one-sheet and the 11 X17. I also have the poster for WWZ where Brad Pitt is looking out of the back of a C-130 aircraft. Buy them all. They'll look good on your walls.

This book takes a look at another one of 2013’s summer blockbusters, World War Z. This book presents a huge volume of production art, design sketches, storyboards, and full color photos presented alongside of the film’s full shooting script which makes it quite a bit different than the Pacific Rim book reviewed above.The book takes you through the various settings in the film such as Philadelphia, The huge flotilla, Korea, Jerusalem, and Wales. Qutotations from Director Marc Forster, as well as the Second Unit Director, Visual and Animation effects Supervisors, and cast members.Presenting the book with scripts is cool but doing so takes away from a lot of the behind-the-scenes info you get in the Pacific Rim book. All of the art is fantastic but it has the feel more of a scrapbook than one that is truly informational. Even the last couple of sections dealing with the zombies and green screen films are more just collections of photos and stray comments as opposed to any comprehensive data on the productions.While it’s certainly a gorgeous book to look at, there’s probably not enough here for film fans to truly sink their teeth into, no pun intended.

As a game developer, artist and fan of World War Z this book has been immensely helpful in understanding their design decisions as well as their motives and stylistic choices for the film, as well as changes they made as well as dropped scenes and content.Overall it is a great book, very informative, incredibly high quality print, and has some really awesome art, renders, ZBrush sculpts, concept art, matte paintings, and the entire unabridged screenplay, which does vary slightly from what you see in the film (it's longer, has more expeditionary dialogue and clearer information than is portrayed in the film)

It arrived with most of the corners somewhat smashed. I worked most of them out and touched up with the proper felt marker.Nice illustrations. C6

Great Book !!!All Zombie Fans must have this bookIllustrations are just grateSeller isa also great !!nice Delivery

The media could not be loaded. I'm underwhelmed by this book. It's actually more of a screenplay book accompanied by pieces of artwork.About 80 percent of the pages are devoted to the screenplay. On those pages, the screenplay is mixed with concept art illustrations and set photographs. The concept art are of the burning cities, ransacked supermarkets, underground bunkers, deserted buildings and, of course, zombies.Many of the art pieces look and feel unfinished. They are basically rough impressions for how certain scenes are to look. Few pieces are in the unpleasant collage style of photograph or 3D with art. If you look at the pictures at arms length, they look fine. If you look closer, the details don't hold up. The storyboard sketches are fantastic but there are only a handful of them.The last few pages feature zombie art. There are some nice textures going on but ultimately the designs are quite safe. They could have been zombies from any other zombie film.The only form of commentary comes in the form of short quotes from the crew. They aren't very insightful by themselves. There's nothing on how the film was shot which would have been more interesting.I recommend flipping through the book, see the pages before you buy.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

A terrific book lovers of screenwriting and sign of pop art movies! Beeautfull layout and excellent presentation -- great companion to the original novel and upcoming dvd release.

Here is my grip though which is why I dont care for it too much:Content wise its 95% paintings of cities with smoke and helecopters.Id say literally maybe 3-4 pages of zombies total.NO design or script evolutions. OK if its an ART OF THE FILM book-- guess they filmed everything that was ever designed. You look at any ART OF book and you will see so many variations of said film. This was just boring painting after another.No disections of any nuance of the film. Just a computer schematic of the plane crash ( zzzz) and 2 pages of computer model Zombies.The reality is a film like this isnt all that exciting as an ART OF book. It needs to be that plus alot more. Im talking cast & crew behind the scene stuff. From book to screen things like that. Heck even a small interview with anyone would have been nice.Cant recommend it at all.

Preso usato, ma il libro ė perfetto. Venditore serio .

Libro que vino de segunda mano, sin precinto y con signos de haber sido.utilizado. Me lo quedé porque costo menos de 10 euros. Aun tienen que trabajar en el envio de libros. Como libro de la película no merece mucho la pena. Poco arte imagenes y texto.

Being a avid FX fan, wanted to see the behind the scenes FX and where and how it was done after watching the film WWZ. Open to another sequel maybe later on??? These film support books from titan are an excellent read.

I don't quite agree with the preceeding negative comment. I am a concept artist for the movie industry myself and I can say that this book reflects quite well the way this kind of film is prepped these days. The keyframes are often an eclectic mix of location photography, 3D and Previz elements, painted over in Photoshop. The goal is not to produce picture perfect book cover illustrations but to find and communicate the mood of the shot. You typically have one or two days to finish a piece. The book shows a tiny fraction of the art that was probably done for the film. Typically many hundreds of illustrations and sometimes thousands of storyboards. So, I definitely recommend the book. If you are more interested in how the film was shot you should wait for a making-of book that I bet will come out in time. I hope this helps.

A bit of a disappointment for an “Art of” book; most of the text consists of the full screenplay around which are placed illustrations – mainly film-stills or some digital concept art.As a heavily CGI-based sci-fi thriller most of the movie process had been digitally designed and rendered – there are no examples of the early sketches that must have existed and a lot of the interesting information usually included in a volume like this – story/visual adaptation, make-up, costume, etc., is either very skimpy or non-existent.It works well-enough as a companion to the movie, but it's a let-down for those of us interested in design.It's no wonder there's no “Look inside” option available for this.