Shining Hearts: Collection of Visual Materials

This is a very beautiful visual art book of Shining Hearts series.It's worth the price with this amount of artworks with creator's notes (interviews.)Simple layout design of the book and there's a lot of full pages art works.List of Chapters:Prologue: Page 02 to 08 (Full pages of close up female characters with creators' notes of making the Shining Hearts series, the visual book, and inspiration of bread.)Chapter 1: "Gallery" - Pages 09 to 49 (Full color of events illustrations along with sources.)Chapter 2: "Characters" - Page 52 to 138 (Creators interviews of designing Shining Hearts. Each characters profile along with drafts to finish art works.)Chapter 3: "World" - Pages 139 to 181 (More creators interviews of the world of Shining Hearts. Many design art works of land, ships, towns, people, buildings, creatures, and food.)Special Bonus: Pages - 182 to 191 (It's mainly shows line art designs of certain pictures from the full color illustrations.)

This book is well made with lots of great art from the Shining Hearts world. It is broken down into three sections featuring artwork, characters, and enemies/items. The characters section also has detailed explainations and an interview with the series creators, including Tony Taka (character designer/artist). I'd recommend this book to anybody who likes the shining series, anime style art, or great character design.

Another great addition to the works of Tony Taka.This is a great item. It is really nice, excellent quality and all the art work is simply great. Excellent colors and the book comes in JP Oversize for your viewing pleasure. This is a great product.

Great item, the same of japan version . Just perfect. I am very happy for the artbook. The price VS quality is awesome. Another Wonderful work of Master Tony Taka.

Loved this! Udon put together a very clean book. Tony's work again is outstanding. If you're a fan of his work this is a must have.

i Love it

The media could not be loaded. This is Udon's translation of the original Japanese art book シャイニング・ハーツ ビジュアル設定資料集 that was released in December 2011. It's for the PSP role-playing game Shining Hearts.The book features the concept art for the characters, locations, enemies and in-game items.The bulk is made up of characters created by Japanese pinup artist and character designer Tony Taka. He has designed for several Shining games and has his own artbook Tony's Artworks from Shining World. The character art are in the form of full page pin-up style illustrations and also the concept sketches with notes. The costume designs are very elaborate.There are a few pages of interview talking about the world, the characters and the designs. Strangely, even though they talk about the Chibi versions of the characters, there aren't any main character Chibi art except for the villagers.The environment art is mostly sketches and printed rather small. There are also designs for the ships. the bread and food from the game. The fish are very realistic and comparable to illustrations from fishing magazines.This is a nice visual companion for the game. Also recommended to those who like pin-up style Japanese female character art.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

The art is amazing! I would recommend this to anyone as references or even just to add to your collection