Chappie: The Art of the Movie Hardcover – Illustrated, March 3, 2015

The media could not be loaded.  This is my third artbook from a Neill Blomkamp movie. I love Neill Blomkamp's movies for the blend of sci-fi and grittiness.Chappie: The Art of the Movie is a large oversized hardcover artbook written by Peter E. Aperlo, and published by Titan Books. Some places list the book as only 144 pages but there are actually 160 pages.The content is the filled with behind-the-scenes photographs, film stills, concept art and comes with a generous amount of production stories. The writeup is insightful and covers how the film is made and analysis for the characters and their motivation.The concept artworks included are great. You'll get to see the many designs of Chappie and Moose. Some of the orange colour that they use in the art reminds me of District 9's mecha designs. I love the detail work, things like bullet holes, graffiti and battle damage surfaces. There are also 3D renders of the robots. The best artworks are the robot art, the rest such as for weapons, vehicles are just alright.Many of the so called scene paintings look like photographs with some sort of digital painterly filter effect applied over them. I don't like that look and that's the only thing I don't like about this book.I felt that Chappie: The Art of the Movie is not as good as the earlier two for District 9 and Elysium. That's because the earlier two books are packed with mostly art while this Chappie book is a mixed of photographs and art.But overall, it's still a pretty good artbook companion for the film.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

Love it, love this under-rated movie, and the designs are great.

Shows a moderate amount of concept art but no real drawings that show any real progression of ideas, its mostly some drawings of stuff that was in the movie and still from from the movie. So not a lot of conceptual stuff, just some matte paintings and character designs and what not.I was kind of disappointed since there was so many great ideas featured in the movie I was hoping they would show more about how they came to such great ideas for the way everything looks. In the star wars art books you can see the progression of thought as to how they came up with how stuff should look and here they really only show the final product and that's it. I'm sure for some people that's satisfactory but to me it feels like a missed opportunity.. It's a shame they didnt show more.

Got this as a gift for a friend who loves this movie for some unknown reason. If there anything that is great about the movie, however, it is the art and this book turned out to be pretty cool. If you like concept art and Chappie this is a good buy, but I don't know why you would like Chappie.

Amazing book of the incredible artwork from the movie. Worth every cent!

As with Niell Blomkamp's previous artbooks, this one suffers no less quality than the previous movies. Great art and background in the creation of the characters and the robots (can't wait to see the scouts and the Moose in action. If you are a Blomkamp superfan like I am then definitely pick it up! Just make sure to not read the last section of the book before seeing the movie, as it contains spoilers. 5/5

This book has something to offer in regard to the art of the story, but it does not have as in depth look like other books. I would have wanted to see more concept art and more of the ideas behind the making of the movie.

great book

映画の大ファンであれば持っていて損はない。特にメカのコンセプトアートは眺めているだけでも持っているだけで十分価値がある

Beautiful photos and a lot of behind the scenes stories and pics

Excellent book

翻訳版がないので、購入しました。所持している、同監督の「第9地区(洋書)」と「エリジウム(翻訳)」のアートブックとに比べると、デザイン画や写真等の数は少ないですが、本作品の敵役ムースの初期デザイン画や撮影風景の写真も載っているので、チャッピー好きにはオススメです。ただ、気になるのは、翻訳版が発売されなかった経緯が、前作のアートブックがあまり売れなかったからなのかってところですね。

Not really storyboards and concept art as expected... photos, computer made drawings that look exactly like photos that have been turned into "paintings" after the fact. Not at all what I had in mind when getting this product.Was looking for images of the artwork on set, the details of all the different parts of the robots up close with what is written / drawn and where.More story board and concept art and evolution of designs. Didn't really get any of that out of this. May as well just been actual photos.... in which case I may have well been purchasing the film again.