Lilo & Stitch: Collected Stories From the Film's Creators Paperback – June 1, 2002

This was definitely different compare to other Art of books. There's a lot of interesting stories on how this film was made. You can really tell that all of them enjoyed, and put a ton of effort into this great film. It was a great read.The only slight drawback is that while the pictures are beautiful to look at, there are many times were they placed a huge block of text. This is somewhat annoying since it ruins the picture.But in other words this is a must for any Lilo & Stitch fan. While I don't think its worth past its original retail price, and I paid around $30 dollars for this book used. It was a former library book, and was a good condition. Anymore than that, it should be brand new.

This book is as beautiful as the background watercolors of the original movie The book takes a personal look at the stories behind the movie. Not necessarily linear in presentation, the chapters are broken into narrations by different creators of the film and either how they came to be involved or how they added to the film. The art that is scattered throughout each chapter is often beautiful.I personally have two favorite images from the film, one a watercolor of a drainage in Hawaii, overgrown with native plants and the second is drawings of how the alien creature, experiment 626, would work showing his skeleton and structure.This book is listed as for ages 4-8, total mistake. this is not a kids book but would be appropriate for early teens through adult. It is an excellent book for those interested in animation, or as myself, a fan of Lilo and Stitch.

This is my favorite Disney movie of all time, I cry every time I watch it and I almost cried reading this book because you can feel the heart and passion of the creators behind every word and behind the scene story. Amazing concept art throughout the book, if you are a fan of the cartoon, you'll love this.

The media could not be loaded. Before I ordered this book, I was aware that it wasn't really an 'art of' book, which is what I'm usually interested in. Lilo & Stitch: Collected Stories From the Film's Creators shares 15 short personal stories from people who worked on the film (obviously), and includes a lot of beautiful artwork. From storyboards to huge watercolor backgrounds to pencil drawings, this book is a giant tease for anyone who wants a full sized Art of Lilo & Stitch...but it's still good.Most of the stories are fun to read, while others are very informative about the movie making process, such as how hard it was to work with watercolors after Disney animators hadn't used the technique in a very long time. We learn that the creators, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, basically got to make the movie that they wanted- not using the usual Disney methods of doing things, such as having meetings to go over the story at Dean's house, rather than setting up official meetings through the various departments at Disney's studio, which sounds like it's very time consuming to even find out if the people you want to get together are allowed to meet. It was nice reading that the creators felt that with the couple of films prior to Lilo & Stitch, they felt that the features were getting too complicated for their own good, and wanted to make things more simple, and as a result took inspiration from classics like Lady & the Tramp and Dumbo. All of the stories are worth reading, and you can see that these 15 people genuinely care about animation and storytelling.As for the artwork, every single piece here had my attention for minutes at a time. I loved seeing the small poster Chris made regarding the right look for Nani- how thin was no good and he wanted a fuller figure. Other favorite pieces were the drawings of Stitch's skeleton, and the huge two page pencil drawing of Lilo and Stitch in a huge drain pipe by Marcelo Vignali. As an added bonus, there's a small photo of the very first design of Stitch, done years before the movie was even in the works. I'm glad they went with Stitch's final design, but the original is definitely original, to say the least.My only con is that, while everything here's good and makes me want a bigger book with more, the stories take up a big portion of the drawings on a lot of the pages. You can see that in my video I've included, and it was a little irritating to have a gorgeous background or drawing covered up by a block of text (especially that drain pipe one). But as it is, this book is worth your money, though I wouldn't spend much more than retail for it unless it's in flawless condition. If you love Lilo & Stitch, you'll love this book too.

I love the book. Had no idea i was buying a used Library book from Washington County, but still love it and glad to see this art work.

this is a must have for any fan of the "art of" series books. it is as beautiful as the movie itself. it is splashed with all the beautiful rough drawings and amazing watercolor paintings that take your breath away. i wouldnt have asked for any more!!!!!!!!