The Art of Cars 3: (Book About Cars Movie, Pixar Books, Books for Kids) (Disney)

I wanted to give this book more stars, but I couldn't, and maybe that's on me. See, I have several art of books, from the Star Wars books I started with, through many Pixar "art of" books and even "The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation" (which is fantastic!). "The Art of Cars 3" has great paintings, production art, and even some pictures of sculptures, but what it doesn't have (that so many of those other books I like do) is text. It has a little, but an integral part of "art of" books to me is to tell us a lot about the pics, and the thought processes that went into the drawing/painting/sculpting of them in service to the finished movie. This book has great artwork, but I wish it had told us more about the making of. Am I sorry I bought it? No way! But it could have been so much more.

I bought this book because of Doc. Hudson and my love of the Cars movies. My son also loves these movies and I thought this would be a really neat book to learn the overall story line. I would love to get the Cars 1 but the book is hard to come across. I love how they go into the stories and show the pictures of the though process.

This book is fantastic, plenty of behind the scenes sketches and could have beens. I'm an illustrator myself, so this is joining my collection of "The Art of". Very pleased with my purchase!

Art book of behind scenes of the movie was fantastic! Recommend to all.

lovely art and great stories/

Great coffee table book.

Got it for Granddaughter for Christmas and she was delighted as was I.

My little boy is the biggest Cars fan in history. Thankfully all of the Cars 3 merch dropped just in time for his birthday. This book is so incredible. I didn't quite understand how nice this book would be. Definitely will be collector's item one day. Thus, I am going to make sure he keeps this book on his special shelf and takes care of it. It is not one you would want to spill a juice box on. Truly is the art of Disney Cars 3. Shows real life inspirations behind the characters, and pictures that just were inspiring to the artists like a rusty gas pump, and a waitress in a diner. Has rough story boards, and nice double paged art of lightning that looks like paintings. Has notes from artists on first drawings of new cars, and what almost looks to be blueprints of cars. Even shows clay model prototypes they made of the new cars. Most new cars have a double page poster, which my son is loving. had to tell him he wouldn't want to rip them out. IN the center there is a center fold that is 4 pages wide and has pics of all the racecars. As a person who has had to watch each car movie a thousand times with my kids, I am enjoying this, and appreciating more than my little boy can for years. In fact I can't believe this book was not made a coffee table size and cost over $100.. Just for the art canvas looking paintings are worth the price. This is a truly beautiful book, and I am proud to have it. I think it is one my son will possibly keep forever. UPDATE: just looked at book with son at bedtime. 1/4 of the way through there is a beautiful canvas looking painting of Lightning looking down over Radiator Springs at a monument tribute honoring Doc Hudson with year of birth and death. My son flipped out. I didn't know if they would replace doc with new voice after paul newman died, so I never mentioned it to him... but it was super upsetting to my son. So just fair warning... may want to tape over the monument sign. My son kept screaming and crying Doc is dead. Not fun for me, but it is it a truly lovely tribute.

For Pixar fans and animators this is a lovely book. Beautiful illustrations and interesting facts.

Good to leaf through, I've not had the chance to read properly but my 2yo loves Cars so have gained an appreciation for the movies, very interesting to read about the animation

Ein sehr schönes Buch! Es ist allerdings nicht mehr ganz so gut wie die Artbooks von Cars 1 & 2!Dennoch ein sehr schönes Buch und Kaufempfehlung!

Muy buen libro, tengo el de Cars 2 y creo que ese es mejor que esté , pero la verdad muy buenos , me encantó no te vaz a arrepentir de comprar este libro .