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The Art Of Fred Gambino: Dark Shepherd (2014/Titan Books/Hardcover)


Book: A-



The Art of Fred Gambino is a beautiful, large, hardcover art book featuring the work of a very talented Sci-Fi artist. The book collects Mr. Gambino's artwork in glorious fashion featuring concept art, illustrations, paintings, book covers and sketches. The highlight of the book is Fred's personal screenplay project Dark Shepherd and features excerpts from his fantastic screenplay. This book is a must have for fellow lovers of conceptual art and military science fiction art.


The 160 page hardcover book features a foreword by collaborator John A Davis - who directed Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and The Ant Bully and tells of his collaboration with the artist and his appreciation for his work. Fred Gambino himself follows with an introduction that tells us a little about his background as an artist for the past fifteen years and guides us through the book.


Pages 10-50 are the short screenplay for Shepard's personal project Dark Shepard, followed by 18 pages of conceptual art for the script accompanied with breathtaking images to accompany. Pages 68-83 are dedicated to Fred's publishing works. Pages 84-93 focus on Battletech and Mechwarrior. Pages 94-109 feature some incredible Speedpaints and More that show us some of the artist's advertising and commissions including some the popular art for the Bioshock video game, Star Wars Visions, and a very cool album cover for the band Operahouse. Pages 110-115 feature Project X that transports us to a unique cyberworld and pages 116-127 showcase some of his work on the Weinstein Brothers' film Escape From Planet Earth. 128-137 are Firebreather followed by Robo Dragons, Alienology, and finally Starbeast.


What Gambino does best is detailed alien landscapes that feel extremely cinematic and otherworldly. This book is really fantastic and great title to add to your collection! Titan Books did a great job with this release - highly recommended!



- James Harland Lockhart V

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