From the vaults of Academy Award-winning director, Hayao Miyazaki! Original watercolor illustrations used as concept sketches for both the manga and film versions of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Take a peek behind the curtain to see the creative process of the most acclaimed anime director in the world today. This full-color, over-sized, hardcover book also includes Miyazaki's earliest sketches that eventually became the basis for some of the most beloved anime movies of the past 20 years.
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A rare and interesting look into Miyazaki's Nausicaa, October 18, 2008
By
J. A. Jaeschke (Australia)
This book is excellent. It combines great concept art, poster art and background info on the Nausicaa movie and manga by Hayao Miyazaki. The attention to detail and research undertaken to create Nausicaa and the world she inhabits is breath taking. The progression of basic ideas (wanting to do a Japanese period drama anime of 'Beauty and the Beast') to final concept (creating 'Nausicaa' as we see her today) was especially interesting to me. This book is a high-quality coffee-table book. The only downside is that many of Miyazaki's comments on his work are especially self-deprecating. Cheer up mate! Highly recommended. 10/10
I don't know if the other Art of Nausicaa book found at Amazon is similar or the same. Can anyone help there?
The best companion for the movie and the manga, October 2, 2008
By
Roberto C. Miranda Espejel (Mexico)
I received this item some days ago, and it's far beyond what I expected to see, the size is big enough to fully appreciate the beauty of every image (each one is complemented with commentaries from Miyazaki himself).
This is, in my opinion a must have for any Nausicaa fan, there are individual sections for the movie and the manga, and even a section for other images, always in the Nausicaa universe.
It's so amazing, well worth the price
package still not here, February 6, 2008
By
Y. Sudeikinit's 35 days since shipping and I still have no package.
I am in russia, maybe that's why it is so long.
or it might be simply lost in post offices.
Fantastic, December 30, 2007
By
Jose Fabregat PinillaIt has been a present to my girlfriend, and she loved it! The quality of the illustrations is awesome and Miyazaki comments are bright.
Impressions, indeed!, November 25, 2007
By
Arash Mohebbi (Brisbane, Australia)
I ordered this more out of curiosity than anything else, expecting a fairly slim volume on a par with the Nausicaa comics: instead, it comes in as a pretty hefty tome, with many of Miyazaki's covers and "thinking out loud on paper" moments. His commentary (mainly captions to each image) is humble and reveals an intriguing glimpse into the mind of one of Japan's most famous and prolific Anime directors. I mean seriously, you'd never read a Pixar or Disney director apologies about "I didn't want to do a magazine cover, but the art director was insistent", or even revealing his intent to use Oni as main characters early in preproduction (yeah, those never made it to the final film).
