I like all the art books. We even used this to make a Halloween costume, or at least the starts of one.For us, the Art of books are just good to have along with the movie. If you have ever wondered something about a movie or why something was done, these books might shed the light on it.Frozen is a great book. From taking real life to cartoon. storyboards that walk through parts of the film (if they would add voice to the book of the person walking through the sequence you would be there in that room feeling like you were a part of the pitch). Designs and designs of the characters. For me this is like walking through the animation studio area in Florida only you have it to take home. These books make you want to take a tour of animation in California, or really any animation studio.I have gone through animation tutorials with Jin kim on youtube. But you really have to see his designs on the trolls (page 116) just to see what is shown for character creations. All of them unique and have personality in their one shots. Contrast those with Bill Schwab's on the next page and you get a feel of how far the range is in creating. Personally I think I would have liked the trolls with either design, but the one used was great also. Mr. Kim and Mr. Schwab's designs makes you want to see cartoons just based on trolls.Flip the page and you are on design layouts done by James Finch (I'm dropping their names so you can hopefully search out some of their work). That is a great part of these books is that under every picture is the artist's name and the medium they used even in the preface and forward sections.You get the preface by John Lasseter which is like walking through Animation history by itself. Forward by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee in which you get a sense of the excitement and then the realization of how big a story can be.Now for Charles Solomon, how must have one of the best jobs in the world if not stress full. Let me elaborate, an animatin historian which means he has seens some art work that none of us will probably ever get to see. He writes into this book bringing about the history of where this movie came from so it becomes more of a documentary. He gets quotes, and artwork and shapes them all together into a book. And does it with a good flow. (from the history, to some story boards, and then through each of the pieces as they shape to become a movie).For example, right after the forward we go into the prolog. A family affair.We get a portrait by Cory Loftis which gives you such a presense of the family. The father standing tall and impressive all decked out. Mother in a chair poised but with a smile with a blue dress with green trim almost to say if we could have meet her more in the movie she would have been a pointer to both Anna and Elsa personalities. A really young Anna wide eyed and curious and Elsa posed like a thinker and the older child that has to be good.Then to Claire Kaene with a drawing of Elsa and Anna on a bench in the snow. It's an early design and the detail seems more of a setup to a scene, but also if you were to take a picture of two kids on a bench during a family walk this is probably what you would get. And might be exactly what happened to get this design.Go then to the quote by Chris Williams that gives you an insight into story boarding. Of just how much animators and designers throw themself into this work.Then into the story of how this came to be.To go into the art work more, Claire Keane's design on the next page to me is aswesome compared to the first image we come across. It is still earlier in design work, but you can get a feel from the first picture of the bench to how she aged the characters into their teen years. Elsa looks down right scary, like she could be could hearted and unconcerned about those around her.Go to the next page and it looks like Bill schwab took those designs and add a little more detail to the two. Elsa could have been ruthless looking at these images. Start reading the the paragraphs again and you find how right on these artist were. "Elsa was going to be the complete antagonist," Explains director Jennifer Lee. "They kept calling her the 'villain'..."And it goes into how they changed her to not be a villain, but just made some bad choices.You can get how making this movies is almost like making 20 plus movies by the time they are done.There is humor in there, such as from John Ripa "I come in every Monday, 'I hope I gt a comedy sequence!' And they say, 'Here-the character has died!"The character design portion I will amit is not as full as in Tangled, but there is still a lot of good stuff in there. A nice image from Jean Gillmore showing the flow of a cloak. I wouldn't mind having that as a poster in my officeThe artist for snow and layout really are amazing. Me, I think snow = white. Draw a cicle on a white sheet of paper call it snow. The movie shows how much they did with snow, but the book goes into how the trees are covered with snow. How they kept them in a cartoon world and how snow makes a tree sag.Page 94, Lisa Keene puts it all together for a scene in frozen. On the next page there is a close up of a tree that has been frozen with ice. we get ice storms here that turn pine trees into ice cicles. This scene here can give you a sense although more cartoony of what a forest of frozen trees is like. It really is one of the those sights living in an icy region to see. Just looking at this scene reminds me that I hate the cold, but am looking forward to some ice storms. And that is also to me what a good picture should do.Flip that pages some more and you have Kristoff. This book seems more about the clothing and the colors and getting the feel of norway into the movie. Artist Minkyu Lee and Brittney Lee give you some renditions of design and clothing. It does make you think that Kristoff came from somewhere and he very well could have a brother or two out there.You have the design pages of Hans. In which they wanted us to like Hans and root for him without giving away his traits. And really if it wasn't for his words and actions in the movie Hans could have been good for Elsa. There are petitions out there to redeem Hans, so it would appear they pulled it off with people liking him.The book will go into different places, one is the ice palace. David Womersley gives us that ice palace on the mountain, and also the ice cottage in a tree. The ice place on the mountain shows off talen (Mr. Womersley's and Elsa's). But that cottage says I just want to be left alone, let me be. That would have change the whole song "let me be, let me be.."OK so on to the nit picking part of the book.1. would have loved even more character development2. would have loved the posters of Frozen (france has one of the best two part posters for frozen)3. The inside of the cover is plain. Not the part under the wrapper that has a great snowflake on it, but between the cover and pages is a design pattern more like wall paper. I own 5 other books like this and only brave comes close to a cover like this. Finding Nemo is still my favorite which just depicted another scense4. all the books I own needs an index of arts work. I enjoy flipping through the book, but if you want to compare all of an arts pieces in a book it would be nice to know what page they are on. Plus for the character reference.Now I am in the mood to watch the movie again, another benifit of the book.