Art of Hotel Transylvania
/Hotel Transylvania is an animation movie produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and directed by Genndy Tartakovsky in 2012. Hotel Transylvania was originally created and developed by comedy writer Todd Durham, which he based on his book of the same name; after creating the bible for a franchise of several films, television series, video games, books, merchandising, hotel chain, and theme park, he took the package unsolicited to Columbia Pictures and set it up at Sony Pictures Animation where he became the first of several screenwriters on the project. The development process ultimately went through six directors. In February 2011, Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack), took over as the sixth scheduled director, and made his feature directorial debut with the film. He reimagined the film to follow the energy, organic nature, and exaggeration of 2D animation, particularly as seen in the work of director Tex Avery. Tartakovsky said: "I took all the aesthetics I like from 2-D and applied them here" and "I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality". The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this movie.
THE STORY
When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula's Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where they can be themselves without humans around to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula invites creatures like the Invisible Man, the Mummy and others to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis. However, an unforeseen complication unfolds when an ordinary human unwittingly crashes the party and falls in love with Mavis…
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