Explore the Visual World of Disney's Zootopia with Chronicle Books' The Art of Zootopia

Smith: The illustrations are great, and it's cool to see the entire process of the movie Zootopia!

United States on Oct 31, 2023

Hayley: Bought this for a friend who is a massive fan of the Zootopia movie and he loves it. Book shows a lot of the behind the scenes artistic processes of the movie.

Australia on Oct 18, 2023

chlo: Je suis fan de ce dessin animé Disney et j'ai beaucoup aimé ce livre car il y avait pas mal de texte pour un "art of" (comparé à d'autres comme Vice Versa), beaucoup d'anecdotes et de dessins, d'idées qui n'ont pas été jusqu'au film mais qu'on retrouve dans ce livre. Super intéressant !

France on Aug 22, 2023

Claudia Gpe Aboytes: Aparte de contener el arte conceptual para la película cuenta historia de su creación

Mexico on Mar 23, 2023

Ruby Rodriguez: Full of wonderful art. What I love most about this movie is the world building. It's so creative an colorful! The art shows you all the little details and even some super interesting scrapped content. Definitely add this to your collection!

United States on Feb 26, 2023

Cubie: This art book really devotes itself towards the character design in the movie. There are many pages that show how many different iterations the main characters went through (+ fun facial expressions) before becoming the Judy and Nick we know, and sketches of background characters used to flesh out the environment they live in. It was a breath of fresh air to see that they didn't focus on any 3D modeling within this art book and solely used 2D art. There is also lot of written information that eludes to earlier scrapped ideas within the story.

Overall, it is a great art book, especially for people looking to become a character designer.

United States on Jun 27, 2022

MikePT: Worth getting this book.

Spain on Jun 14, 2022

Danielle: If you love background work in animated films then this book is for you!! This book goes into detail about how they designed this world and how they made sure every animal was able to belong in it! I personally love it because the process and thought put into this world is next level! EVERYTHING WAS THOUGHT OF! There were also environments that they include in this book that you don’t see in the movie! Overall I totally recommend this book!

Canada on May 28, 2022

Mike S.: As a precursor, this review is of the hardcover version of the book.

This book is absolutely fantastic. Taking a look at the preview on Amazon, I was expecting something fairly good, but I was astounded at the content within the book when I received it. The images are beautiful and there is a lot more in the book than simple concept drawings of the movie. There's everything from different city designs for the different types of animals, to vehicles, rooms, and appliances. It really gives you the appreciation as to how much thought really went into the different environments within the movie, and there are a lot of things in there that did not make it to the movie.

There's also plenty of text describing the thought process behind the different items within the movie, which flushes out the book to be more than just art. It contains a lot of the thought processes themselves behind different regions and choices made within the movie.

Overall, this book has a lot more than I had expected when I had originally purchased it, compared to similar art books that I've purchased in the past. This book had everything I was hoping for from the content of the movie, and...

United States on Apr 21, 2016

Benjamin T. Paric: I've been buying and selling these behind-the-scenes art books for over ten years, and this is one of my favorites yet! Ms. Julius offers insightful quotes and interviews from production staff accompanied by tremendously entertaining artwork created over the course of the film's development.

Zootopia is a fantastic film with a thoughtful script, some of the best casting for an animation I've seen in recent years (Bateman and Simmons were inspired!) and, par for the course on Disney's part, some really breathtaking art and design. The "Art of" books have always given valuable insight into the processes of developing these rich and imaginative worlds, but "Art of Zootopia" is one of the few I've seen that includes a large proportion of annotated drawings with notes made by the directing staff for internal use by the animators. Reading these annotations almost makes you feel like you're part of an animation workshop or something--great motivation for little ones (or big ones!) interested in animation or creative design as a career.

I recommend seeing the movie prior to reading this book, since it does spoil the ending. But there's every chance that reading it will make...

United States on Mar 15, 2016