Nuleo The Puppet Channel: Lovely: Ladies of Animation Review by Nuleo The Puppet

Hello everybody once again!

This time I brought a new book “Lovely: Ladies of Animation”

Now here’s a book that took a long time to be published, which had some changes on the release date. But luckily it was worth it! The book is absolutely gorgeous.

It contains some artistic works from 6 great artists that work for Disney: Lorelay Bove, Brittney Lee, Claire Keane, Lisa Keene, Victoria Ying and Helen Chen.

For the cover art, although it doesn’t include a dustcover, it is very robust and the art is very beautiful and appealing.

Then, it begins by presenting us with an introduction by the great animator Glen Keane and a foreword text by John Lasseter.

Now, most of these artists have been working on quite recent movies like Frozen, Tangled, Frankenweenie, Wreck-it Ralph among others.

For each illustration there is a quick and interesting description written by the artist.

And there are a lot of work here for us to marvel but none related to any Disney characters or movies.

Also, near the end of the book, we find all of the artists’ photos and blog sites, which is great if you want to know more about their work.

Even though the book seems almost perfect, there’s a slight problem in my opinion. The paper quality is really good and glossy but sometimes there are a few illustrations that could have a better resolution. But nothing that bothers me that much as well. Oh, and I also think that they could’ve featured more works of each artist, since each artist has a lot more work to show us. That’s why I was expecting a larger book, honestly.

The book is published by Design Studio Press but in the meanwhile there’s another version of this book on pre-order, this time by Titan Books. I’ll be posting the link for the present version on the comments section, for you to purchase and in doing so it’ll be a quicker purchase and you’ll be helping us doing more reviews.

On a final note, it is a very inspiring book for an illustrator or animator, and also for someone who’s interested in art, seeing that there’s different styles representing the 6 artists. It is without a doubt, a magnificent asset for a collector’s bookshelf.