The Art of Trolls Hardcover – 27 Oct. 2016

I was actually pleasantly surprised by this one, its very informative and well set out revealing ideas that never made the cut and ideas that exist but never were mentioned on screenshot.The best bits are by far the concepts of characters and see how far they went with character is always interesting.

I like Dreamworks' Art of - books. You can tell they really make an effort putting the books together, and this book is no exception. It is packed with colourful pictures of digital paintings and final renders. There's drawings/sketches, and It touches on the different aspects of the production. The book captures the colourful and quirky tone of the movie really well, and the felt spine, the glitter on the cover, the silver lined pages, and the poster adds to this, and are good examples of the extra effort.

Little sister has been wanting this book, came quick plastic around book which is nice and no marks or scratches

Lovely, quirky book, just as the movie was. Top notch illustrations and designs that are as endearing as they are colourful. Excellent presentation from the glitzy cover to the superb graphic design of the inner pages. Great stuff!

Amazing book. Great help for illustrators looking for work in animation but also great for those who simple appreciate art of illustration.

This book is amazing! It's colorful, contains a lot of drawings, sketches, and info!

Brilliant book with brilliant art work. The outside cover is really detailed, very carefully designed. Just stunning.

The media could not be loaded. I didn't know what to expect of this book but it turned out to be surprisingly good. Who knew cute troll art can look good?This is a large 160-page hardcover with silver-trimmed page edges. The presentation has a scrapbook style look to it, thankfully without any of those gimmicky paste-over goodies except for a large removable print at the back of the book. By scrapbook, I mean some of the concept art are actually collages and the layout is packed with lots to see and read.There are loads of character designs, environment art, sketches, storyboards, and the occasional film stills. The art is cartoony and humorous. Having rainbow shoot out of Mr Dinkles' bottom is one of the visual gags. To me, the animated designs of the trolls look so much more attractive compared to the actual real life dolls. Other than the characters, there are also many fun troll creatures, bugs.The environment art and props look great. There's the children book look although some places are designed to look drab (on purpose) but they all have that whimsical look and feel.The text mainly talks about the designs. There's a section that talks briefly about the different process of making an animated film, such as from creating a story, to modeling, rigging, animating, lighting and rendering.Overall, the artworks are beautiful and appealing, and certainly very imaginative. It's a fun companion to the film.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)