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This is an incredible offer presented to WoofBay by the artistic staff that created the iconic Disney "Christmas Carol" film starring Jim Carrey. This unique book is autographed by over 40 members of the creative team that actually created this film, and these original ink signatures comprise a totally unique book that will never be replicated. This particular group of autographs were lovingly and patiently assembled over weeks of time to capture as many of the team participants that were present in North America in the last month. Topping the signatures is Doug Chiang, Academy Award-winning Production Designer.

The hardbound book itself features 156 pages of astounding images from the film itself, but more importantly showing behind the scenes vignettes of the film's art production.

The Robert Zemeckis directed film features motion capture animation of the Charles Dicken's classic. Stylistically, it has a similar feel to his earlier movies, Beowulf and The Polar Express, due to the hyper-realism recreation of scenes and characters.

The concept art for this movie is created by production designer Doug Chiang and his group of artists at ImageMovers Digital, a studio run by Robert Zemeckis and Disney specializing in performance capture and CGI. It is the staff led by Zemeckis and Chiang who are signing and presenting this volume to you.

There are many images in your book of cool architecture reflecting  1840s London. You'll see sets like Big Ben clock tower, Scrooge's English house, city streets and the other sets used in the animated film.

There are also character designs, some miniatures, sculptures and 3D renderings. Not surprisingly, the 3D characters resemble their life voice actors, who are Jim Carrey (except for old Scrooge), Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins, and Robin Wright Penn among others.

Author Diana Landau has included commentary on the production process with interviews from the director, actors and artists. It's fascinating to read how the team approaches performance capture, character development, and making various artistic choices.

Item Special Note

This is a hardbound copy of the book "The Art of a Christmas Carol" by author Diana Landau. There are over 40 star studded ink autographs on this book, including:

Doug Chiang - Academy Award-winning Executive VP of ImageMovers Digital, and Production Designer for "Disney's A Christmas Carol".  He's very well known in the industry, extremely talented (and a terrific guy!), and has been involved in some of the most well-known visual effects films of all time throughout his long and distinguished career.  Besides serving as Production Designer on "A Christmas Carol", his credits include Production Designer on such films as "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", "Beowulf",  and "The Polar Express", and Visual Effects Art Director on "Forrest Gump" (for which he won a British Academy Award), "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", "Death Becomes Her" (for which he won an Oscar) "Ghost", as well as Concept Design Supervisor on "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones".

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Brian Flora - Art Director on "Disney's A Christmas Carol".  Having worked at Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic and The Orphange, Brian's earlier credits include Conceptual Artist on "Beowulf", Digital Matte Supervisor on "Sin City" and "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", and Digital Matte Artist on such films as "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", "Mission to Mars", and the special edition releases of "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back" and "Star Wars:  Episode VI - Return of the Jedi".

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Kurt Kaufman - Art Director on "Disney's A Christmas Carol".  Another noted ILM alumni, Kurt's earlier credits include Concept Artist on "Beowulf", "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", and "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones", and Digital Matte Artist on "Gangs of New York" and "Jurassic Park III".

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Kathryn Otoshi - Concept Artist on "Disney's A Christmas Carol".  Kathryn is not only an extremely talented and well-respected Graphic Design Art Director, having worked on several well known visual effects films such as the "Star Wars" prequels while employed at George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic.  She is also the owner of KO Kids Books, and is an acclaimed author and illustrator of several children's books, including "What Emily Saw", "The Saddest Little Robot", "One", and "Simon & the Sock Monster".

    http://www.kokidsbooks.com/
    http://www.twentybyjenny.com/47Books/review/one/

Jason Merck - Concept Artist on "Disney's A Christmas Carol".  Jason's incredible artwork of Ebeneezer Scrooge is featured prominently on the original theatrical release posters for "Disney's A Christmas Carol", as well as beautifully serving as the cover art for "The Art of Disney's A Christmas Carol" book.

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Paul Hamblin - Concept Artist on "Disney's A Christmas Carol".  Paul's gorgeous depiction of life in Victorian-age London beautifully graces the back cover of "The Art of Disney's A Christmas Carol" book.

Kim Smith - Practical Modeler and surfacing Texture Artist on "Disney's a Christmas Carol".  Kim's impressive resume includes some of the most amazing practical and digital model making ever put to film.  Her credits at George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic include stellar work on such films as "The Hunt for Red October", "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace", "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and "POTC: Dead Man's Chest", "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith", "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", and "Transformers".

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