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The Art of Elemental
The Art of Elemental
showcases the art and making of the next animated film from Pixar Animation Studios.
The Art of Elemental presents the story behind the newest film from Pixar Animation Studios. It highlights the stunning artwork from the film's creation—including character designs, storyboards, color scripts, and much more—and features exclusive interviews from the creative team along with behind-the-scenes details. The next in this fan-favorite, collectible series of Art of titles, this book is the perfect gift for aspiring artists, animators, aspiring film buffs, and fans alike.
Copyright ©2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.
EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES DETAILS: Fans will want to delve into and explore this new Pixar Animation film through production art, stories, and making-of details exclusive to this book.
PART OF THE FAN-FAVORITE SERIES: The collectible Art of series from Disney and Pixar are perfect for animation enthusiasts, filmmakers, students, and fans of Disney and Pixar alike. Add it to the shelf with other bestselling books like The Art of Turning Red, The Art of Encanto, and The Art of Strange World.
For animation fans, Pixar fans, Disney fans, students, aspiring animators and filmmakers.
The Art of Elemental presents the story behind the newest film from Pixar Animation Studios. It highlights the stunning artwork from the film's creation—including character designs, storyboards, color scripts, and much more—and features exclusive interviews from the creative team along with behind-the-scenes details. The next in this fan-favorite, collectible series of Art of titles, this book is the perfect gift for aspiring artists, animators, aspiring film buffs, and fans alike.
Copyright ©2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.
EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES DETAILS: Fans will want to delve into and explore this new Pixar Animation film through production art, stories, and making-of details exclusive to this book.
PART OF THE FAN-FAVORITE SERIES: The collectible Art of series from Disney and Pixar are perfect for animation enthusiasts, filmmakers, students, and fans of Disney and Pixar alike. Add it to the shelf with other bestselling books like The Art of Turning Red, The Art of Encanto, and The Art of Strange World.
For animation fans, Pixar fans, Disney fans, students, aspiring animators and filmmakers.
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176 pages, Hardcover
First published May 16, 2023
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December 30, 2023
Another lovely little art book.
September 4, 2023
Smagu sužinoti KAIP gimsta animacija PIXAR studijoje. Tokias knygas nagrinėju grynai iš profesinės pusės.
July 14, 2023
The Art of Elemental presents the story behind the newest film from Pixar Animation Studios in a truly unique and inspiring way. According to Producer Denise Ream, the film highlights “the tremendous sacrifices that parents make to fulfill the universal dream of giving their children a better life.” That said, Elemental and the moving moments behind the film communicated in this charming book are sure to set young and old hearts aflame.
The next in this fan-favorite, collectible series of Art of titles, The Art of Elemental is also the perfect gift for aspiring artists, animators, aspiring film buffs, and fans alike. It features stunning artwork from the film's creation—including character designs, storyboards, color scripts, and much more—as well as exclusive interviews from the creative team along with behind-the-scenes details.
While the series continues to wow fans with the exclusive art showcased therein, the text and insight is equally inspiring. Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter introduces readers to Elemental Director Peter Sohn; Sohn’s budding ideas behind the very beginnings of the film, and the challenges the team faced in creating what they hope is to be another animated masterpiece. Sohn himself writes the Introduction and makes readers feel more like friends as he shares his childhood and family experiences that inspired many of the film’s themes. The book ends with important acknowledgements by Producer Denise Ream who fondly notes, among other things, that Sohn “shared his very personal and heartfelt family story with the world, and we are all the better for it.”
The book maintains a wonderful consistency with the other books in the series as well as bringing new fun features to readers. One great example of this is the mini flipbook section, which demonstrates Ember’s flame as being “fueled by emotions rather than true physics” and conveys that groundbreaking development in this film of “a flame character of this complexity [which] had not yet been made in Pixar history.”
The format of the book wastes no time in getting to the good stuff. Following Docter’s foreword and Sohn’s introduction, the book briefly summarizes the “Elemental-izing” process before taking a deeper dive into all the cleverness behind each of the specific elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Numerous easter eggs are showcased in a way that makes me so excited to see the film (and, no doubt, to reflect on it after viewing). Among them, the worldbuilding puns and creativity made me smile and appreciate just how much effort (and fun!) the team put in. For example, some of the food in Firetown is aptly named as follows: Fire Smacks (cereal), Frosted Flames (cereal), Kindling Bar (candy) and ash-flavored Soot Soot tea.
The Art of Elemental is another great addition to the infallible series by Chronicle Books that adds its own flair and insight into the latest exciting Disney Pixar classic. Fans will want to delve into and explore this new Pixar project through production art, stories, and making-of details exclusive to this book.
The next in this fan-favorite, collectible series of Art of titles, The Art of Elemental is also the perfect gift for aspiring artists, animators, aspiring film buffs, and fans alike. It features stunning artwork from the film's creation—including character designs, storyboards, color scripts, and much more—as well as exclusive interviews from the creative team along with behind-the-scenes details.
While the series continues to wow fans with the exclusive art showcased therein, the text and insight is equally inspiring. Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter introduces readers to Elemental Director Peter Sohn; Sohn’s budding ideas behind the very beginnings of the film, and the challenges the team faced in creating what they hope is to be another animated masterpiece. Sohn himself writes the Introduction and makes readers feel more like friends as he shares his childhood and family experiences that inspired many of the film’s themes. The book ends with important acknowledgements by Producer Denise Ream who fondly notes, among other things, that Sohn “shared his very personal and heartfelt family story with the world, and we are all the better for it.”
The book maintains a wonderful consistency with the other books in the series as well as bringing new fun features to readers. One great example of this is the mini flipbook section, which demonstrates Ember’s flame as being “fueled by emotions rather than true physics” and conveys that groundbreaking development in this film of “a flame character of this complexity [which] had not yet been made in Pixar history.”
The format of the book wastes no time in getting to the good stuff. Following Docter’s foreword and Sohn’s introduction, the book briefly summarizes the “Elemental-izing” process before taking a deeper dive into all the cleverness behind each of the specific elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Numerous easter eggs are showcased in a way that makes me so excited to see the film (and, no doubt, to reflect on it after viewing). Among them, the worldbuilding puns and creativity made me smile and appreciate just how much effort (and fun!) the team put in. For example, some of the food in Firetown is aptly named as follows: Fire Smacks (cereal), Frosted Flames (cereal), Kindling Bar (candy) and ash-flavored Soot Soot tea.
The Art of Elemental is another great addition to the infallible series by Chronicle Books that adds its own flair and insight into the latest exciting Disney Pixar classic. Fans will want to delve into and explore this new Pixar project through production art, stories, and making-of details exclusive to this book.
September 27, 2024
In a city where fire, water, land and air reside together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: How much they have in common.
The cute romance between elementals is beautiful, a story of a fire elemental girl who wants to prove to her father that she can run a store, and a carefree water elemental guy comes to inspect the store and hazards. They find the problem and together they find the solutions that were temporary , finally they find the permanent solution to it but the fire element truly comes to know what she actually wants to do in life and what they want to do.
The trial and tribulation they went through and grandmother ungodly astrology prediction and parents unlikeliness towards inter elemental love made it difficult but they survived it all, went on world .
The cute romance between elementals is beautiful, a story of a fire elemental girl who wants to prove to her father that she can run a store, and a carefree water elemental guy comes to inspect the store and hazards. They find the problem and together they find the solutions that were temporary , finally they find the permanent solution to it but the fire element truly comes to know what she actually wants to do in life and what they want to do.
The trial and tribulation they went through and grandmother ungodly astrology prediction and parents unlikeliness towards inter elemental love made it difficult but they survived it all, went on world .
September 13, 2025
Elemental is my favorite Pixar movie. I went in with zero expectations and practically no knowledge of the film and was just blown away by what I saw. I loved everything about it--the characters, the plot (romance? no villains? wasn't expecting either of those things, but yes please), the world, and the art.
This book felt like a love letter to a movie I absolutely adored. (And bonus, it has a key to the fire language so you can read the signs on the walls!)
I personally would have loved it to have more detail on how the story and world developed, but I nonetheless I thought this was a gorgeous treasure. Any fan of the movie should enjoy this book, and people who like Pixar art should find it cool, too.
This book felt like a love letter to a movie I absolutely adored. (And bonus, it has a key to the fire language so you can read the signs on the walls!)
I personally would have loved it to have more detail on how the story and world developed, but I nonetheless I thought this was a gorgeous treasure. Any fan of the movie should enjoy this book, and people who like Pixar art should find it cool, too.
July 6, 2024
This was a perfect compliment to the documentary on Disney+. My only complaint is it felt rushed at the end, it barely touched on the wisteria scene and mentioned nothing after that scene.
But I am very glad they included commentary on the process. A few of the art books recently are missing that... Element.
But I am very glad they included commentary on the process. A few of the art books recently are missing that... Element.
June 28, 2023
A treasure trove of imaginative art work that proves Elemental isn't the soulless, corporate cash-grab most of the internet claims it is. Every Pixar hater needs to crack open the studio's art books and see how wrong they are.
January 8, 2026
One of my favourite “The art of … Disney” books. The team worked so hard and it shows. The book is very inspiring.
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