The Art of The Secret World of Arrietty

This book, like others in the Ghibli art series contains a balanced mix of concept art, background art, cell art and film stills. The back contains the English version of the film script (in a big font over 34 pages!). This book is a paperback with dust jacket, much like the Japanese editions of the Studio Ghibli art series. The printing is also of better quality. For this print run the printers had to order some extra green ink I suspect. In the film the garden is green, and so it is in the book... The book contains an interesting interview with the director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, highlighting the production process and his experience of directing his first complete film.

Beautiful book magical illustrations well worth every penny

lovely book, many interesting features and details of the movie's backgrounds!the interviews were very interesting and informative too!

Beautiful book.

The media could not be loaded. I actually have the Japanese edition of this book so I borrowed the English one for review.What's different here is the cover art, and also the dust jacket is smooth instead of textured. It's translated by VIZ Media who does a good job, as usual. The book has 248 pages but only 208 pages are on the art with the rest being the script. The film's directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, a new director.The book's loaded with colourful concept art. There are character designs, storyboards, background paintings and film stills. Much of the concept art is in pencil and watercolour as usual. I see some drawn by Hayao Miyazaki but the rest seems to be drawn by others -- I could be wrong. The drawings are captioned but not credited.The art is beautiful, of course. Characters designs are wonderful, cute, and pastel colours are nice. One thing with the character design is, they seem to look very similar to previous films from the studio. Looking through the book, I kept thinking that the characters here are the same "actors" as previous films but set in a different script. Arrietty's the main character and she's a tiny person. So it's interesting to see how household items are incorporated and used as gadgets.The storyboards are great, really telling the story without any words. Just by looking at them, you know the story or idea works. Afterall, this is concept art.The background paintings are of lush green countrysides, which you could really mistake them for coming from Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke. And there are paintings of Arrietty's home and the different locations. The art direction is unmistakable, uniquely Studio Ghibli.It's a beautiful book for fans of Studio Ghibli.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

É um artbook né? Então tem bastante coisa bem interessante, tem muito esboço de fases iniciais ( por exemplo, a Arrietty teve diversas opções de design até o final que aparece no filme), além de esboços de cenas e cenários que não aparecem no filme. Livro lindo e para quem estuda desenho, é um prato cheio

Excellent

Arrietty is probably one of the most underrated movie from Ghibli, maybe because the master Miyazaki didn't direct it. Story is so moving and touching, and the artbook is pure pearl, with amazing sketches, concept art etc.

Estos artbooks de ghibli no defraudan. Y el libro llegó perfecto.

Questo libro è stupendo. Lo si potrebbe dire di tutti gli artbook dello Studio Ghibli? Forse sì, ma alcuni sono davvero dei gioielli. Questo lo è, non solo perché il film è un piccolo capolavoro, con dei fondali dipinti in modo stupefacente. E' stampato bene, su carta di ottima qualità, con numerosi schizzi e studi dei personaggi e, soprattutto (per chi ama questi libri), un gran numero di background arts dipinte con un talento incredibile (si vedano gli interni della casa delle bambole). Da non perdere.