THE ART OF ROBOTS; Blue Sky Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Present THE ART OF ROBOTS / By Amid Amidi / Preface by William Joyce / Foreword by Chris Wedge

Amidi, Amid; William Joyce & Chris Wedge

ISBN 10: 0811845494 / ISBN 13: 9780811845496

Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2005

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SIGNED by ILLUSTRATOR-ARTISTS who have added ORIGINAL ROBOT SKETCHES, oblong quarto (9 1/4" x 11 1/4" x 1"), glossy silver boards with blue-black lettering on spine and large round Robot head on front cover, Preface by William Joyce; Foreword by Chris Wedge; profusely illustrated with reproductions in color and B&W of art created for the film, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: $40.00) with colorful art from Robots, pictorial blue endpapers depicting prelim sketches, 144 pages. Illustrated bookplate by William Joyce laid in. Weight: 2 lbs. 6.8 oz. SUPERB copy, nearly flawless in an unclipped dust jacket that is nearly as nice. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by ARTIST-ILLUSTRATORS with ORIGINAL SKETCHES of ROBOTS. On the half title page there are the autographs and sketches by some of the key artists associated with the film. Signers include Peter de Sève, Vincent Nguyen, Michael Knapp, Dice Tsutsumi, and Daniel Lopez Munoz. Laid in loose is also an illustrated bookplate by William Joyce, one of the creators of the movie and an Oscar winning animation director. The bookplate was provided by Bud Plant when the book was first published. Robots was a highly successful 2005 American computer-animated science fiction adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, stating that "this is a movie that is a joy to behold entirely apart from what it is about. It looks happy, and, more to the point, it looks harmonious." It was directed by Chris Wedge, co-directed by Carlos Saldanha, and produced by Jerry Davis, William Joyce, and John C. Donkin, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel, based on a story by Lindsay-Abaire, Ron Mita, and Jim McClain, stars the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey and Robin Williams, and features music by John Powell. Seller Inventory # 8707

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE ART OF ROBOTS; Blue Sky Studios and ...

Publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Glossy pictorial boards

Illustrator: Amidi, Amid, William Joyce & Chris Wedge

Condition: Very Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

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Synopsis:

The team behind the blockbuster animated hit Ice Age - Twentieth Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios, and Academy Award winning director Chris Wedge joined forces with acclaimed children's author william Joyce to create another visually magnificent, animated classic in Robots.

About the Authors:

Amid Amidi is the publisher and editor of the highly acclaimed magazine Animation Blast and co-founder of the animation industry weblog CartoonBrew.com. In addition to writing, Amid works in the animation industry. He lives in Los Angeles.

William Joyce is the producer and production designer of Robots . He is also the celebrated author and illustrator of several award-winning, best-selling classics beloved by children and adults alike. Two of Joyce's characters have been developed into television shows: George Shrinks and Emmy Award-winning Rolie Polie Olie . He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Chris Wedge is the director of Ice Age and the Acadamy-Award winning short Bunny . He is co-founder and vice president of Creative Development at Blue Sky Studios. Wedge has also directed the character animation sequences for the Warner Bros./Geffen Films Production Joe's Apartment and supervised the creative teams for several other feature-length films. He lives in Katonah, New York.

Amid Amidi is the publisher and editor of the highly acclaimed magazine Animation Blast and co-founder of the animation industry weblog CartoonBrew.com. In addition to writing, Amid works in the animation industry. He lives in Los Angeles.

William Joyce is the producer and production designer of Robots. He is also the celebrated author and illustrator of several award-winning, best-selling classics beloved by children and adults alike. Two of Joyce's characters have been developed into television shows: George Shrinks and Emmy Award-winning Rolie Polie Olie. He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Chris Wedge is the director of Ice Age and the Acadamy-Award winning short Bunny. He is co-founder and vice president of Creative Development at Blue Sky Studios. Wedge has also directed the character animation sequences for the Warner Bros./Geffen Films Production Joe's Apartment and supervised the creative teams for several other feature-length films. He lives in Katonah, New York.