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Avatar the Art of the Animated Series

Avatar: The Final Airbender—The Art of the Animated Series is an artbook based on the blithe series Avatar: The Last Airbender . The book contains concept art, pattern works, behind-the-scenes commentary by series founders Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, along with other pieces of production artwork.^[two] The volume was released in comic book stores on May 19, 2010 and in general bookstores on June 2, 2010. It consists of 184 pages, split into five capacity of the aforementioned material, most of which had never been revealed to the public before.^[1] ^[2] ^[4]

A second edition of the artbook was released on November 25, 2022, in a standard and deluxe edition, featuring a new cover past Bryan Konietzko, 8 pages of new material and an updated foreword by Gene Luen Yang. The palatial edition also includes a designed slipcase, an art lithograph, a gilded front end cover, and a ribbon marker.^[3] ^[v]

1 Contents
two References
3 See also

The book contains five chapters:

Early development (pages eight through 37)
Season One: Water (pages 38 through 83)
Season Two: World (pages 84 through 129)
Flavor Three: Fire (pages 130 through 172)
Coincident art (pages 172 through 183)

The first edition includes a foreword past the manager of The Last Airbender , Thousand. Night Shyamalan (folio six), while in the 2d edition the foreword was written by Cistron Luen Yang, who authored the start 5 Avatar graphic novel trilogies. The book too includes an introduction by Avatar creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino (page 7). The very last page contains a conclusion, which is again written by the creators.

The volume explains how the serial was created and gives one an idea of the efforts that went into such an endeavor. Thanks to the many cute illustrations, the book as well lets the reader go a step farther into the deep Earth of Avatar.

Affiliate One: Early development

Early concept fine art of Aang, Appa, and Momo.

The pre- and early developmental stages were different to the series created. The 2 creators, Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, brainstormed ideas on how to make an animation series, and not only made incredible progress with their dream to make a television testify, but also began a journey that would pb them to a lifelong friendship. In the get-go, the show had a futuristic setting; Aang was non an Air Nomad from a hundred years ago, but rather a boy from a lost civilisation from over a m years prior. He had a robotic sidekick named Momo-3, who later became Aang's lemur Momo, and a bear-domestic dog that, while not making it into the series' cut, after became the inspiration for Avatar Korra'southward fauna companion. According to Konietzko, Aang was originally "a farmer kid, shepherding mammoth floating livestock similar huge manatees ..." He also goes on to state the original idea behind the arrow was to get the herd to trust him through imitation. This idea was later dropped, much to Bryan Konietzko's dislike, every bit there was no place for all of them in every episode. However, they too played their office in the series, having inspired the thought of Appa.

An early sketch of Appa and Aang to emphasise the "epic spirit of the series".

As soon as the series had progressed to the point where Aang was going to be a child frozen in an iceberg for a hundred years, and the last hope for world peace, the characters of Katara and Sokka were adult. Fifty-fifty though their designs at the time were all the same dissimilar, Bryan and Mike both knew that Katara and Sokka were going to get a major part of the testify.

According to the two co-creators, in the very beginning the Burn Lord was the only villain planned for the show. Soon however, Eric Coleman, i of the members of the Avatar team, suggested an idea which gave birth to Zuko, the banished prince. With their thought finally ready, Bryan and Mike decided that it was time to brand the airplane pilot.

Chapter Two: Season I: Water

The page defended to Iroh.

After the pilot and the series were accepted by Nickelodeon, Bryan and Mike started recruiting a larger team to make the series. Afterward succeeding in finding a studio in South korea, the team began work on the two-episode season premiere. Iroh was added while making the showtime episode; he was at outset going to be Zuko'south sifu, but afterwards became his uncle to make the story more personal. According to Bryan, Mako made Iroh'south character complete by adding a sense of humour to the grapheme.

At commencement, merely 13 episodes were scheduled by Nickelodeon, thus making "The Blue Spirit" the last episode. However, Nickelodeon'south reaction to the thirteen episodes made was highly positive, and they allow the testify continue and expand. By the end of the first season, the series had connected with a wide audience, both male and female; the creators themselves admitted that they had never expected such a positive reaction and such a large audience.

Affiliate 3: Season Ii: Globe

A visual comparison betwixt the Groovy Wall of China, and the Outer Wall of Ba Sing Se.

In forming the 2nd season, the creators traveled to Prc to gain inspiration - particularly the architecture. Sites such as the Swell Wall and the Forbidden City provided the scale used to inspire Ba Sing Se. Later on stumbling upon an architecture park, the duo found in an "inspirational goldmine", which happened to feature a vast assortment of Chinese architectural styles from a variety of ethnicities and eras.

This chapter shows several of these pictures, alongside the artwork from the series that was inspired past each one. The influences of these images tin can exist seen throughout the Earth Kingdom; the Great Wall can be straight related to the Outer Wall of Ba Sing Se.

The third chapter goes into some detail of the episodes of the second series; nonetheless, information technology also explains and elaborates on the designs and personalities of newly introduced characters, such as Azula, Mai and Ty Lee, and Toph.

Chapter Four: Flavour Three: Fire

Storyboards of the energybending sequence performed by Aang on Ozai.

The 4th affiliate goes into some detail how the 3rd and final series developed, from the introduction of new characters, such as Combustion Man and Hama, and the inspiration backside the unique landscape of the Burn down Nation.

This chapter showcases a significant number of groundwork sketches and drawings, from Piandao'due south castle, the Western Air Temple, Wulong Forest and Sozin's Comet, and the sunset over Iroh's tea shop.

Fire Lord Ozai is also showcased, given several pages to evidence the different grapheme designs during dissimilar parts of the season. Slap-up detail went onto explaining the four part finale, and how it transferred from the minds of the creators to the animation. It features sketches of the lion turtle and Fire Nation airships, and the full sequence of Aang energybending.

Chapter Five: Ancillary art

An early example of the chibi-way artwork used in the Super Plain-featured Shorts.

The last chapter features several additional pieces of artwork, such as promotional affiche drawings, the DVD and volume covers. A birthday bill of fare, drawn past DiMartino for a girl who "wanted [him] to make Aang alive", and several caricatures of other storyboard artists are also shown. It likewise explains how the commencement 'super plain-featured' (SD) version of the characters came to be and gives a detailed page of the different expressions used for the characters in the three shorts. In the 2d edition, a series of pages feature fine art drawn to enhance clemency funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. The finish of the chapter is a simple thank-you notation, acknowledging both their squad and the reader.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Fine art of the Animated Series HC. Retrieved on July 25, 2022.
↑ ^2.0 ^two.ane ^ii.2 Comics Continuum: Nighttime Equus caballus Comics for Apr. Retrieved on March 31, 2012.
↑ ^3.0 ^iii.1 Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Art of the Animated Series HC (Second Edition). Retrieved on July 25, 2022.
↑ rufftoon (May xix, 2010). It's a good week for Avatar fans.. LiveJournal. Retrieved on July 25, 2022.
↑ Penguin Random House: Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Art of the Animated Series (2nd Edition). Retrieved on July 25, 2022.