• Cover of 'The Art of Onward' book featuring colorful illustrations of characters and a cityscape reminiscent of the Disney Pixar movie 'Onward'.
  • A collage sheet of concept art and character designs, including multiple colorful monster and creature illustrations, a few human characters, sketches, and a small inset photo of a tattoo on a person's upper arm. The sheet appears to be a reference or design board rather than a single retail product photo.
  • A two-page spread of concept art or game design sketches showing stylized mountain and valley landscapes, roads, and rocky terrain in green, blue, and gray tones.
  • A collage-style page showing multiple hand-drawn architectural sketches and concept art of small houses with colorful roofs, plus a few rendered views and blocks of text. This is not a clean product photo, not a person-in-environment lifestyle shot, and not a measurement chart, color swatch, or instruction diagram.
  • A printed storyboard or concept-art sheet showing multiple hand-drawn character sketches, facial expressions, costume ideas, and a full-body painted character on the right, with small notes and labels throughout.
  • A book or magazine page featuring a dark fantasy illustration of a cottage at night with glowing windows, surrounded by gnarled trees, alongside a text column titled 'The Manticore's Tavern' on the right.
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The Art of Onward Hardcover (Chronicle Books) - Out of Print

The Art of Onward Hardcover (Chronicle Books) - Out of Print

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Experience a spectacular, production-packed blockbuster look into award-winning animation history! The Art of Onward Hardcover delivers a massive, comprehensive behind-the-scenes showcase capturing Disney and Pixar’s legendary creative process during the development of the hit feature film.
Chronicle Books’ fan-favorite, collectible Art of series offers heavy-duty, premium, and meticulously detailed volumes that collect a wealth of production secrets. This essential chronicle takes you deep undercover on a high-stakes worldbuilding and character design hunt. Read along as the visual production team traces the evolution of characters and environments, clashing brutally through complex designs, sprawling multi-era layouts, and modern-suburban twists to secure a flawless historic archive before the book hits your private collection.
Key Production Highlights:
  • The Suburban Fantasy Worldbuilding: Follow the unique blending of classic high-fantasy mythology with modern suburban banality across dangerous conceptual landscapes on a breathless journey detailing evolving infrastructure and signature visual iconography.
  • The Elf Brothers' Visual Design: Watch the visionary design team deploy on a brutal, investigative tactical mission, charting the raw character development, expressive storyboard iterations, and wardrobe designs for teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot.
  • The Exclusive Making-Of Details: Witness the lethal combination of rare content assets including finished digital environment paint-overs, rough hand-drawn animation sketches, color scripts, and definitive developer commentary directly from the studio architects.
This incredible, heavy-duty book is an absolute crown-jewel library centerpiece addition for modern Disney and Pixar completionists, feature film animation historians, and sequential art illustrators looking to study master-level character drafting, vibrant cinematic lighting, and modern fantasy world layout designs by the creative legends at Pixar.
Product Specifications
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books / Disney Pixar
  • Lead Creator: Pixar Animation Studios Development Teams
  • Illustrators & Artists: Pixar Studio Concept Artists, Animators, and Sculptors
  • Format: Premium Oversized Hardcover Art Book
  • Configuration: [First Edition] (Complete Archival Masterwork)
  • Condition: Brand New Condition / Unread Archive Stock
  • Availability: Hard to Find / Out of Print (OOP)
  • Visual Content: Packed from cover to cover with high-fidelity production art and digital asset files
  • Language: English
  • Series Heritage: Part of the highly collectible, industry-standard Art of franchise capturing the visual dna of animated masterpieces.
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