This 400 paged giant tome showcases a dizzying collection of the artist’s most impressive concept art work and storyboards for major Hollywood films as well as his own personal work, and is pure eye candy from cover to cover.
His mentor in the early part of his career was none other than the late Jean “Mœbius” Giraud, the world-renowned artist. Sylvain Despretz is an independent writer-director who has worked extensively in the USA and in Europe in the fields of storyboarding and illustration. Peppered with anecdotes, observations and musings on the past two decades, this book is a unique must-have for all those who are interested in cinema, illustration and art in general. Throughout the pages the author reveals his calling – that of an artist and craftsman putting his talent to work on the dream machine that is Hollywood. This book is neither catalogue nor instruction manual – it is both, and yet so much more. Storyboards, concept art, paintings and illustration – his palette of talents has been deployed to bring emblematic (The Fifth Element, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Eyes Wide Shut) and other lesser-known works to fruition. A renowned artist who works in the shadows, he has helped pen the visions of Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Andrei Konchalovsky, Mike Newell, Tim Burton and Stanley Kubrick, to name a few.
It’s where Sylvain Despretz has lived for the past twenty years, behind the scenes and next to the mightiest of the mighty. The image of its city namesake, Los ángeles is a multifaceted book teaming with angels and gods.
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