Present suggestion (art books)

TechSmith

my girlfriend asked me what kind of art/ referance books I would like for christmas and I have no idea. I'm not exaclty sure what I want. Does anybody out there have some suggestions that I can pass along to her?

Josh_Singh

O.k. Here it goes...
Art of:
Metal gear solid
Metal Gear Solid Sons of Liberty
Halo
Half Life2
Oddworld
Entire Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Warcraft
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy IX

Any art books by these artists:
Frank Frazetta
Yoji Shinkawa
Yoshitaka Amano
Burne Hogarth
Alan Lee

Capcom Design works Is a great artbook too, and Dont forget the Star wars Field Guide, some great creature designs in there too.
Those are all I can think of off the top of my head. Go to www.animebooks.com for more ideas.

flaagan

I personally can recommend the HL2, MGS1, and FF IX books.. very cool (especially the MGS1 artbook.... if you can find it)

palm

You can get artbooks of halflife 2 etc?
Cool, I didnt know that.
Gotta find some now.
/Palm

sonic

the expose books, they are fuckin amazing

palm

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Ill second on that.
Those are really great.

/Palm

gauss

if you like HL2 then i also recommend the "raising the bar" book. i'd say tell your gf to order it off amazon.com since it's cheaper, but then it wouldn't make christmas then

lkraan

I got the book "The Making of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" which is very nice. Loads of concept art, storyboards and pics of the CG in different stages of production

moose

brom, Aubrey Beardsly, ralph stead, ashley wood... to name a few.

danr

there's plenty of new and reissued Brian Froud books in the shops at the moment, "The World of the Dark Crystal" is particularly good ...