d'artiste: Concept Art - Limited Editions Available to pre-order!

Hi everyone!

One of the most highly anticipated books from Ballistic Publishing is here!



d'artiste: Concept Art presents the techniques of leading concept artists Viktor Antonov, George Hull, Andrew Jones and Nicolas “Sparth” Bouvier.

Each author is a colossus in concept art and design. Some of their credits:
- Viktor Antonov - Half Life 2
- George Hull - The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions
- Andrew Jones - Metroid Prime
- Sparth - ID Software

In this masterclass tutorial book, these four authors bring readers through concept art techniques used to create environments, characters and machinery for film, television and video games.

Each master artist presents their unique approach through a series of step-by-step tutorials from initial sketch through to concept completion .

d'artiste: Concept Art dedicates a section to each master artist, including a personal gallery, biography, up to 26 pages of tutorial content each and an invited artist gallery featuring 92 artworks from talented concept artists worldwide.

The Leather Bound Limited Edition is now available to reserve from BallisticPublishing.com for $145.

The standard slip cased edition will be available to order on 26 June 2006. Stay tuned!

Books ship in mid-August.







Step by Step Tutorials
d'artiste: Concept Art features step-by-step tutorials from each master artist from initial sketch to concept completion. Tutorials include:

• Matrix Revolutions: Machine City
• Matrix Revolutions: APU Battle Sentinel
• Matrix Revolutions: Hand of God
• Seen it all
• Studio City
• Lesser Evil
• Unicorn of the Apocalypse
• Ellipsoid Complex
• Feast of Destiny
• The Crossing: Rooftops
• The Crossing: Street-Level
• The Colony: 19th Century City

Spectacular Concept Art Galleries

Complementing each artist’s master class tutorials are numerous concept artworks personally selected by the authors for critique and commentary.

These works are invited by the respective authors or submitted by the community, making the d’artiste series a unique blend of tutorial and artistic content.


Page gallery for the ENTIRE BOOK:

tempting....

*bounce* I want this so badly! Though, I can't afford the limited edition, so I have to wait :/

should be a great up

loooks like an awesome book

i'm currently 'behind' in my book purchases so i'll be sure to add this to my ever-growing 'to buy' list

regards

looks like an awesome book

i'm currently 'behind' in my book purchases so i'll be sure to add this to my ever-growing 'to buy' list

regards

looks damn great...
i must get a copy for me

This look amazing!! wish I could afford it

I can't wait to get this book... I'll definatly be adding this to my ever growing collection of Books and in particular the Ballistic Publishing range

this looks like the best d'Artiste so far, we'll see what's inside though

These Artists are amazing and the book seems to be very very interesting!
What a nice idea to published that!

WOW!! that is one expensive book.. 145$ usd = 196$ aud for me.. looks great tho

Looks like a treasure, but I cannot afford that. Plus its only a book, is it made from gold? (I fell the content within it is gold though )

Holly!

I didn't expected this book to be THIS amazing! Awesome book and it's very exciting to be a part of it. Thanks to Andrew Jones!

Oh I'm gettin this for sure.

hmm... now I know where Freeman picked up his pair of glasses.