 Welcome back to another book review and flip through and today I'm going to take a look at Gabriel Latour's art of book of the Submotion movie Pinocchio. Had this book for a while but couldn't open up just yet because I only saw the movie last week with my family. It was great. We all loved it. It was really well done. Now this book was given to me for a review so this is a sponsored post full disclosure but no notes were given in terms of the content. This is just me taking a look at it as always. You know how those flip throughs work and if not check out my channel there's more about that. This is the book. Beautiful front and back. This is the spine. Pretty thick book. A timeless tale, tall and new. There you go. Contents. Chapter one, two and so on is what you get. Definitely a unique design for Pinocchio. It's great. Character designs are awesome. As you can expect by the director you get forward here. Even that already as an actual practical piece. I love it. So cool. You got the intro, production paintings, color scripts, concept art. So many awesome set pieces and how it goes through time and the changes depending on the setting. I don't want to say too much but it probably has enough spoilers in it as you can imagine with a art of book. Once upon a time, look at that. It's already. Because you always feel like there must be not that big and then you see all this. Look at this. They're huge. So much work. I cannot imagine. I mean, I do have puppets in the background actually. I do have these too that I will unbox and I want to try. You can see here poseable and they got swappable faces. You guys can, if you get multiple ones, you get different faces then. But I haven't done stuff motion since school, which is more like 20 years now. It's a daunting idea to get back to it because I never was really into it. Because it's just so, so difficult. But I do want to try and every time I see a movie like this, it's just, it's at the same time. It's awesome. Encouraging and not encouraging because the quality is so good. But the aspect of, of moving a puppet physically, especially after all those years, having done CG animation, kind of having a better understanding of timing and spacing and just kind of performances and stuff like that. I think it would be really interesting to go in there and do something with it. Got your different Pinocchio designs here, Gepetto on the right. He was so great. Great voice too. Look at that. So nice. As you can imagine, with El Toro, you're going to have interesting creature designs with lots of eyes. Definitely an interesting design here. This could almost fit into an Indiana Jones movie. He was super cute too. Great voice as well. Interesting casting, like a very famous voice, Kaplan Chambley for the voice. This was cool too. Look at these. I love it. Yeah. Love seeing all of this. It's absolutely bonkers. Love seeing this craftsmanship and all the work that goes behind this. Collar and costume. Look at that. These are awesome. So much work. Assembling the cats. There we go. I really like that there is the, it gives you a broader story about how Gepetto lost his son, spoiler, but kind of how he ties into the overall story. It gives it a more, to me, emotional depth and it was a really nice, that's cute, nice overall arc for Pinocchio as well. Again, I don't want to say too much. So many awesome sets. So much work. Love seeing all this, a lot of cool information and details in the text as well. I mean, it's kind of, it's a mix between kind of a retelling of the story. Kind of tells you what happened at this point and explaining what's going on here with a bit of a behind the scenes of the production. Just really neat. It's a good balanced art of book. It's definitely interesting to see for me, I can love stuff like that, artwork of their production, but then also going into details, facial expressions, but then that type of stuff. I love that they included photos like this with the kind of more behind the scenes aspect of it. And you can go on Twitter and I retweeted a bunch of stuff where you can see the time lapse of the animators. It's just so much crazy work. Cool focus. He gets a lot of this on the sets and the posters. Silhouette and scale. This was a good moment in the movie as well. I can't say too much, but these were funny. I mean, it's dark, but they still cracked me up. See, this is great. I love all this. Definitely. Sometimes you have art of books that are a bit more on the fluffier side in terms of what's going on. I love all of this. All of that just gives you just kind of the sense of scope and scale and all of this of the production is great. And that's why, to me, this is a more of a balanced art of book. More so than usual. So cool. So cool to see. I just can't imagine spoilers. Can't imagine doing so much work, so much detail. Just get so spoiled with your computer animation and undo and all the tools that we have. A lot of more darker undertones and imagery there. That's what I loved about the movie as well, that it wasn't just it wasn't glossing over things. It sets it in a very specific time, which is not unusual for Del Torre's movie. There's always a bit of that angle to it. There's just a lot going on in the movie. It was great. Now I headed towards the end. This is the spoiler aspect of it, but not too much. The songs were cute too. The composer, the really, really nice music. I love the score. The songs were great. That's cool. And then we got the epilogue and we got some of these poster sketches. There we go. Towards the end. There you go. Last page. The end. Very neat. Like I said, very balanced. I think it's a good mix of behind the scenes photos and production work and design work and paintings. So overall, I would recommend it. Definitely recommend the movie. I think stop motion movies are really at the highest craft of animation but usually in terms of box office and viewership. It's just always kind of more on the lower end. I don't know why. It's just so good. So well done. Highly recommend it again. And the book had a really good blend of behind the scenes and production work and concepts and paintings. I don't know. I liked it. As with these, I always kind of prefer more on the rougher side and not too polished with more sketches and rough ideas of character designs how they get to places. But that is fairly rare in art of books nowadays. I've gone through a couple now and it's just, I don't know. There's something a bit more that you could do. I think it would have been cool to also get more of like, what was the blend between the CG and stop motion? How much was the user? What was the balance of there? Kind of more of a behind the scenes making of type of thing. And I always lean back to the bad guys that had a really good inside of just kind of the effects of it and all that. I would have loved to see a bit more. I think it's generally well balanced. I would love to see a bit more in-depth sketches and early work and kind of the blend of the amount of set work, pop artwork, CG work and all that stuff. But that is just me. As you can see, overall very cool. Of course, link in description with all information where you can get the book. And that's it for me. Thanks for watching. I'll see you in my next flip through.