{"id":12404,"date":"2012-11-09T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T06:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/?p=12404"},"modified":"2012-11-15T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T02:02:33","slug":"theartandmakingofhoteltransylvaniaabookreview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/theartandmakingofhoteltransylvaniaabookreview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art and Making of Hotel Transylvania: A Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/theartandmakingofhoteltransylvaniaabookreview\/the-cover-of-the-art-and-making-of-hotel-transylvania-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12439\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12439\" title=\"The-Cover-of-The-Art-and-Making-of-Hotel-Transylvania\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Cover-of-The-Art-and-Making-of-Hotel-Transylvania1-680x598.jpg?resize=660%2C580\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Cover-of-The-Art-and-Making-of-Hotel-Transylvania1.jpg?resize=680%2C598&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Cover-of-The-Art-and-Making-of-Hotel-Transylvania1.jpg?resize=250%2C219&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Cover-of-The-Art-and-Making-of-Hotel-Transylvania1.jpg?resize=125%2C109&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Cover-of-The-Art-and-Making-of-Hotel-Transylvania1.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>I should present this book with a few thoughts on the film it helped create.\u00a0 <em>Hotel Transylvania<\/em> painted a fun picture about creatures that go bump and their favorite vacation spots.\u00a0 It takes playful liberties with many of histories most notorious monster legends and smashes them all together in a single estate with very busy zombies carting luggage accompanied by witches cleaning up after their mess.\u00a0 Dracula, being the host, has an eventful evening on an emotional roller coaster while trying to throw his 118yr old daughter the very best birthday party ever while also trying to deny his darling is growing up. Throw in a boy her age and BAM!\u00a0 We have a story.\u00a0 Perfectly crafted for a whole family, it&#8217;s sure to bring parents and their broods closer together.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/theartandmakingofhoteltransylvaniaabookreview\/zombiebutler\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12423\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12423 aligncenter\" title=\"zombiebutler\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zombiebutler-680x624.jpg?resize=550%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Art and Making of Hotel Transylvania<\/em><\/span> gives great insight from the production design aspect of the film.\u00a0 Director Genndy Tartakovsky(Dexter&#8217;s Lab, PowerPuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars) exercises incontrovertible logic in his selection of character concepts and their course throughout the plot.\u00a0 Between such expert insight and marvelously packaged walk-throughs from concept sketches to finished models, this book is sure to interest graphic design Nerds and anyone else engaged by the film. <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>All of us here at SWN would like to thank Titan Books (<a href=\"http:\/\/titanbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> for their website and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/titanbooks?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> for their Facebook page) for letting us review The Art and Making of Hotel Transylvania. If you&#8217;re interested in the book <a href=\"http:\/\/titanbooks.com\/the-art-and-making-of-hotel-transylvania-6647\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> is a direct link to buy it.<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/theartandmakingofhoteltransylvaniaabookreview\/dracula\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12436\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12436 aligncenter\" title=\"dracula\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dracula-e1352440640615.jpg?resize=550%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/theartandmakingofhoteltransylvaniaabookreview\/dracula-htt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12435\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12435\" title=\"dracula HTT\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dracula-HTT-680x455.png?resize=550%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should present this book with a few thoughts on the film it helped create.\u00a0 Hotel Transylvania painted a fun picture about creatures that go &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,305,462],"tags":[57,747,1226,1227,1228,1229],"class_list":["post-12404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-movies","category-comics","tag-servbot5000","tag-books","tag-adam-sandler","tag-hotel-transylvania","tag-genndy-tartakovsky","tag-graphic-design","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/somewhatnerdy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/The-Cover-of-The-Art-and-Making-of-Hotel-Transylvania1.jpg?fit=900%2C792&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35LLI-3e4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12404"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12592,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions\/12592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}