Brother Bear : A Transformation Tale

Résumé : « This is a story from long ago ». So begins Brother Bear, the Walt Disney Company's forty-third full-length animated feature and the first film since The Lion King to portray an animal hero at the heart of an epic tale. This saga is the focus of Brother Bear : A Transformation Tale, in which first-time directors Aaron Blaise and Bob Walker take center stage, along with the rest of their creative team, and reveal difficult and often emotionally charged dynamics of original story development. What they would discover on their journey was that their process of filmmaking, not unlike life, has a way of working itself out, but which nonetheless demands a certain faith in that outcome as well as an acceptance of its fundamental nature : change. Fully illustrated with a range of artwork from the film, from development art and backgrounds to storyboards and final production stills, Brother Bear : A Transformation Tale is also a visual feast highlighting the film's « painterly » artistic style in which a long tradition of great American landscape painting is richly evoked. In all, Brother Bear : A Transformation Tale adds up to an indelible testament to the art of animated filmmaking itself, in addition to making a worthy companion book to a film that will be long remembered for its timeless beauty and enduring emotionnal message.