Description: The Art of Marvel Studios’ What If…? from Abrams Books takes fans behind the scenes of Marvel Studios first animated series. Reimagining famous events from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in unexpected ways with many stars reprising their roles from the films, the Emmy Award-Winning What If…? creates alternate worlds from the ones you know and opens up a plethora of vast new realities.
In each story. The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) acts as a guide through the various timelines and raises such questions as: What If Peggy Carter was injected with Super Soldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers? And many other questions like this. Filled with striking imagery and a bold color palette, these timelines are brought to life in an animation style that is complementary to the look and feel of the MCU and features designs by the guiding hand of Marvel Studios’ Head of Visual Development Ryan Meinerding, giving the series a cohesive look and feel with the films.
Through interviews with the animators, designers, producers, and writers of the series, readers will discover everything that goes into translating their favorite heroes and villains from live-action to animation and how exciting new possibilities for storytelling can open up if you only ask, What If…?
Overview
Written by Paul Davies who has penned such gems as Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Art of the Game and Marvel Studios’ Eternals: The Art of The Movie. The Art of Marvel Studios’ What If…? features stunning photographs and in-depth interviews with the artists and production people involved with the smash hit Disney + series.
The book features a brilliantly written chronology about the production of the series and features exclusive interviews with Brad Winderbaum who is head of Television Streaming and Animation at Marvel Studios and an Executive producer on the show. Other interviews and quotes featured in the book come from the likes of Ryan Meinerding the head of Visual Development and character design.
All the interviews featured in the book chart the chronology of events from the inception of the series through to the end of production. The book includes fascinating insights into the creative journey that the production team went on to bring Marvels’ What If…? to our screens.
The Artwork
The book’s cover art features a great visual of the cast of characters from What If…? and does a brilliant job of showing off the visual style of the series. The pages within the book continue to be on point with this and show off some truly stunning visual stills from the series, which re-imagined many of Marvel’s greatest superhero origin stories. It also shows off some gorgeous concept drawings from the show of the various characters. So it’s well worth a look if you are a fan of the series and would like to learn more about how the team came up with the visual style for the series.
Overall and Value For Money
This book comes fully stocked with some wonderful visuals from the What If…? series and includes some brilliantly insightful stories about how the team came to agree on the visual style of the series as well as the various storylines that they covered.
The series is loosely based on the Marvel What If…? comic book series. Although some of the stories in the show underwent a few changes to make them better fit the format of the show.
The book is a coffee table style book so its pretty big and packed full of great content and would look good adorning any household coffee table. At $50 you are getting pretty decent bang for the buck. As it is a stunning book to have on any coffee table.
The Art of Marvel Studios’ What If…? is out now in all good Book Stores.
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