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A review by alexauthorshay
The Art of Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Marie Javins
4.0
Less focus on character than the artbooks for the first movies for each Avenger, but I suppose that's understandable since they aren't creating character designs from scratch anymore. But this one still had much more character art and development than the Thor: The Dark World book, and very interesting tidbits about how they made certain scenes or items. I am floored by what I learned was CG in this movie; some of it you can tell, but a lot of it looked real, like they were in a physical location or a completely decorated set or used real props, etc. I guess because it's not somewhere like Asgard, where you know it doesn't exist and has to be CG no matter how realistic it looks, there's the assumption that more of it has been physically created, even if it's been manipulated digitally.
There was a very interesting mention about how the Marvel team keeps characters in mind when doing choreography--that they ensure the motions made and weapons used by the characters are in line with how they have been characterized so far in the MCU, rather than just going for the coolest fight scene. Little mentions of what details were paid attention to always amazes me, in this Marvel artbook and ones from other MCU movies. But I suppose that's why these movies are such good quality; they have huge teams and individual people paying attention to the very nuts and bolts of the script, to things that viewers don't even get to notice in the movie for the simple fact that it streamlines so well into the final product.
There was a very interesting mention about how the Marvel team keeps characters in mind when doing choreography--that they ensure the motions made and weapons used by the characters are in line with how they have been characterized so far in the MCU, rather than just going for the coolest fight scene. Little mentions of what details were paid attention to always amazes me, in this Marvel artbook and ones from other MCU movies. But I suppose that's why these movies are such good quality; they have huge teams and individual people paying attention to the very nuts and bolts of the script, to things that viewers don't even get to notice in the movie for the simple fact that it streamlines so well into the final product.