| The Art of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |  | Author: Jerry Beck
Publisher: Insight Editions
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 337,973
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 10.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1933784709
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9781933784700
ASIN: 1933784709
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Would you trust a squad of trash-talking Penguins to fly a plane? Probably not, but for Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, and Melman the giraffe there isn't much choice if they ever hope to see the Central Park Zoo again. Join your favorite Manhattan menagerie in The Art of Madagascar for a look into their wild ride from their first trip to the island paradise to their venture into the African savannah in the upcoming sequel Madagascar: the Crate Escape.
The Art of Madagascar explores how the zoo comes to life featuring an untamed look into the visual effects and development from the Dreamworks team that brought you Shrek and Shark Tale. Discover how animators incorporated animal idiosyncrasies into each character, how digital avatars were tailored to voice actors, and the inside scoop on those darn penguins. The abundance of behind the scenes visuals, information, and special features in the The Art of Madagascar is sure to drive kids and anyone's creative curiosity wild.
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 Great Book June 29, 2009
Gabriel S. Fazzioni
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is much more than I Expected. There is a lot of sketches and rendered drawings inside, greater than great ! Totally recomended !
Some paintings deserve to be printed bigger November 21, 2008
Parka (Singapore)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1MHZ4IXE5C2WK This art book follows a style very similar to The Art of Kung Fu Panda. Character art is presented before background location art.
There are lots of character designs, background paintings and even discarded storyboards and art. In-depth descriptions are included before each character or location. These stories contain stuff like character motivations, challenges to creating Africa the continent and production strategies to make characters more prominent in New York City and other stuff.
All these make for very interesting read on the production and creative process.
However, the book is strange at some parts. There are some incredibly detailed paintings which were printed at only 4 inches wide. Lots of details can't be seen. While some of the full page rendition of the main characters are great, some really don't deserve to be blown up that big because of -- again -- the lack of detail. I really don't think broad pencil sketches for Marty the zebra should command a single page, as do the 3D render of Gloria the hippo.
Some of the beautiful scene paintings really deserve a bigger canvas.
Once the section for background location art starts, the book becomes considerably much better. Now, most of the digital paintings are displayed big for all the glory.
On the last few pages includes the discarded characters and storyboard. There's also a page on 4 stages of production and another page on props. There are not many movie stills, which is great.
Unfortunately, I cannot comment on whether the book contains art from both the movie because I've yet to watch them.
Overall, this is still a pretty fun art book to get.
(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
Lots of fun stuff October 30, 2008
Love and peace (San Francisco, Ca)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lots of fun stuff and images from Madagascar 1 and 2.
Dreamworks makes more realistic movies. Madagascar is one of fun and cartoon style. I love the characters on this movies and this books show how they changed from the original drawing to the show. Tons of Development stuffs. Although the style is very simple, shows lots of details. my only complain is that the color seems bit dull compared with other Art of books that I have. Printed not on glossy papers, that is why...?
 Not worth the looking :( October 22, 2008
Sea Wolf (Cape Cod, Ma USA)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Sadly, I just sent this book back to Amazon. I was really looking forward to this and it was a great disappointment. In no way does this book come close to any of the other "Making of" animation books that I have. This book is more a re-hash of the first movie. Maybe the title should have been "Art of the Madagascar movies". All it seems to be is a description of the characters from the film. Very little of interest is mentioned about the second film. This is the first book from Amazon that I have ever returned. Maybe the studio will make a better one after the film is released. I would not recommend this one at all to anyone who is familiar with the quality of other published "Making of" or "Art of" books.
Brilliant book! April 16, 2009
Rodriguez C. Juan Pablo
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the art of ....... of dreamwork books are all really really good! the best out there!
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