MARVEL’S CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER – THE ART OF THE MOVIE

MARVELお馴染みの映画アート＆メイキングブックです。いつも豪華な
スリップケースが付属しています。日本未発売の英語表記の洋書版です。
個人的にこの映画が大好きで、MCU作品群の中でも一番好きな作品です。
ですので、内容には大変満足しています。各キャラクターのアートが細かく
描かれています。キャップカッコ良いです。お勧めします。

This is my first Marvel movie artbook and I’m pretty impressed with the print. Some of the images are dark though but it’s still amazing especially the back-to-back panoramic pull-out poster. There are only a couple of pages for the Black Widow concept art as well as Nick Fury. The rest of the book contains Captain America, Winter Soldier and Falcon costume designs, storyboards, vehicle, weapon designs and set concepts. There are also scenes from the movie and rare studio photos of the actors. My favorite so far are Falcon’s concept art and the construction of his wings. Great collection if you are a fan of the movie!

Stupendo il fim e stupendo questo libro. Qualità dei contenuti eccelsa, come eccelsa la qualità della carta.
Un libro che non può mancare nella collezione di ogni fan MARVEL.

I don’t know what I was thinking not buying this when the movie came out but I’m glad I have it now. Unfortunately its not the actual physical book, as cool as it is I cant drop that kinda dough for a book now that its crazy expensive but I got the kindle version. I’m new to kindle so I don’t know much about it however the book looks great except for double page spreads which get cut in half because you only see one page at a time. Unless theres some way to show two pages at once, like I said I’m new to kindle so I don’t know.

Anyways, if you liked this movie I highly recommend this book. The artwork is awesome!

The best part of this book are the drawings.

The still images from the movie are great, but hey – I have already seen the movie. It is the drawings that make this book truly spectacular, the comic history they depict and explore. I adore the center fold-out, and the cover is simply AMAZING (features Bucky and Steve, metal arm slamming against shield scene). Very inspiring for the artist in all of us!

Comes very well packaged, inside a hard cover that protects yet another, drawn, hardcover.

Definitely get the hardcover version. Much more durable – and beautiful!

The first Captain America art of book surprised me in how well designed and interesting it was. It incorporated a lot of comic history into not only the concept art, but the final film design. This book continues that, but with less emphasis on the comic origins; that is, there’s not as much “history” included.

Just like Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World – The Art of the Movie, this one is laid out chronologically vis-á-vis the film. Cap’s redesigned costume is given an overview, as is Black Widow’s, but where the book really shines is with the Winter Soldier and Falcon. Bucky’s section is especially interesting because he’s the only modern character in the film. The Winter Soldier was created in the late 2000’s, unlike Cap and Falcon who have been around for 50+ years. In the comics, he has a domino mask and the concept artists pay homage to that with the military ant-glare paint around his eyes under the goggles. The design and physical implementation of his metal arm was very cool. Falcon also gets a lot of pages devoted to his design, and deservedly so. The various concepts for his wings are incredibly interesting as well as how the SFX render them in the film.

The other really strong point of the book is how physical locations, like the Triskellion and Smithsoneon, were conceptualized to fit real-world locations. The section on the museum has full page spreads of the murals drawn for the film, and has a beautiful fold-out rendering. The Triskellion section was far better than I would have expected in how much emphasis was put on making it realistic in its location along the Potomac River and how they reduced the helicarriers from 5 to 3 because 5 would not fit under the river! The destruction of the helicarriers, and how the battle damage from every main gun was fully mapped, has some brilliant concept art to accompany the explanation.

My main criticism of the book, and why I deducted a star, is the over emphasis on storyboarding. This is where a sequence is mapped out via small black and white panels. This is useful and interesting – ONCE – to see how an action sequence is developed and how art is fundamental to that process. However, there are six different sequences included here comprising 30+ pages of the book. They got boring very fast.

Just like the previous releases, the hardcover book has a wrap-around image on the cover instead of s dust jacket and a different wrap-around image on the slipcase. One change I noticed is that unlike the previous books, which were all 10″ high without the slipcase, this book is 9.5 inches. The slipcase has a bit of padding at the top and bottom so that it is the same size as the other film slipcases. I’m honestly not sure why they did this, though I am glad the cases all line up nicely on the bookshelf. Overall, this is another fine installment of the Art of Marvel Films collection. Highly recommended.