The Art of World of Warcraft Cataclysm Hardcover Art Book

The media could not be loaded. Here's another wonderful artbook put out by Blizzard Entertainment and publisher Insight Editions.The Art of World of Warcraft is a huge 224-page hardcover. The cover has a smooth almost velvet treatment with glossy prints of the title and cover art. The binding is great.The first thing I want to point out is there is actually another book with the same title that was published in 2005 by BradyGames. I'll not be comparing this book against the previous one because I don't have that book.This new artbook is a collection of illustrations and concept art for the game.The games included are World of Warcraft (2004), The Burning Crusade (2007), Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm (2010), Mist of Pandaria (2012) and Warlords of Draenor (2014).So we have six games featured in this 224-page hardcover. I do feel that they could have included more pages, especially so when The Art of Blizzard Entertainment has 376 pages. And there have been game specific artbooks such as The Cinematic Art of World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King (154 pages) and the one that came in the collector's edition for Mists of Pandaria (208 pages).And because there has been other artbooks that feature WOW art before, some of those artworks are duplicated in this book. It's not a big issue because there are a lot of new artworks included too.What I like about the book is it's huge. The artworks look wonderful printed in high resolution on the huge pages. Some of the artworks spread across two pages. Others take a whole page by themselves. It's satisfying to look at the huge reproduction of detailed coloured illustrations. The colours came out really well.The artworks themselves are beautiful to begin with. The WOW style of art is very recognisable. Most artworks are fully coloured with the occasional sketches. There's a good mixture of character and environment art. The captions are printed in classy gold fonts against black. The commentary are from Bill Petras, Samwise Didier and Chris Robinson and they are interesting to read. However, not all artworks have captions and the last 20 over pages are devoid of any captions.This is a fantastic video game art companion.Highly recommended to all fans of WOW.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

This is exactly what "The Art of Blizzard" left me wanting. Over 200 pages of beautiful Drawings and Paintings from Blizzard's best ranging from a myriad of rough concepts to fully rendered illustrations - from Vanilla to Draenor. A lot of the content is in other books, like the monolith, "The Art of Blizzard." The majority of the content exclusive to this book seems to be in the form of Environment Concept Paintings and, obviously, the art of "Warlords of Draenor." As an aspiring artist inspired by Blizzard for well over half of my life, I must say that I am happy with the high quality of this product and the content within it. I will cherish it, share it and, most importantly, study it!

A great book with awesome art that was darker than I thought it would be. I'm very happy with that. Be careful handling the pages though. Fingerprints leave behind oils that are very visible on the glossy paper this book uses.While I love what's in the book, I do wish they had a more thorough and even representation of the expansions. Entire zones are left out of their respective chapters.

Everything is awesome about this book. If you're not a fan of the game or the novels, you can still appreciate the art work. I wish some were sold as pictures I could hang on my walls.Fast shipping, great packaging, reasonably priced, and Amazon convenience.

If you're wondering if you should buy this book, you should. It's nice to hear what the designers and artists were thinking when they created this universe so many people know and love. It tells the story of WoW from a totally different perspective.

This is a must have for all Cataclysm fans. The layout quality is very good, and the definition in the illustrations and sketches is very nice. This is a high quality product and it is worth the price.If you do not like dustjackets, you will be happy to find that the hardback has a beautiful drawing work. It looks like a dwarven book. I see if I can upload a pic one of these days.

In general its very good, very good meterials, alot pages and alot good quality image, but some image are poor quality and very dark

Got this art book as a gift for my girlfriend.Beautiful book, looks great on the shelf and if full of awesome art.Its a must have for anyone's WOW collection.

I've always been a fan of the art of WoW. And this book just reinforces my love for it. Absolutely beautiful.

wonderful all I can say brilliant prictures

I wouldn't say it's must have, but if you are interesed in this kind of stuff or you are a warcraft fan you definitely should consider buying it

This artbook brings you back to a better time. It goes through most of Cataclysm's content, except for late raids (dragon soul, end of time, etc.). The image quality is generally good, but some images feel a bit stretched, but it is only a small amount. If you like artbooks and older-ish WoW, it's a good buy

Ich liebe dieses Buch! Die Qualität ist top, der Einband dick und qualitativ bedruckt. Alle Bilder sind klar und gute Auflösung. Es gibt nichts auszusetzen! (außer dass es ruhig doppelt so dick sein darf :D)