Exclusive: Get A Sneak Peek At The Art Of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
One of the best video game art books has a sequel that's just around the corner. The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course will be published by Dark Horse Books on November 5. Cuphead fans have three editions to choose from: a standard hardcover, Deluxe Edition hardcover, and Kindle ebook.
The original Cuphead art book is a stunning companion that beautifully captures the intricate process of animating a game designed to look like a 1930s-era cartoon; soon, fans will get to see how the superb DLC came to life.
Dark Horse sent GameSpot an early look at a handful of pages from The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course. You can check those out below along with details on both physical editions below.
The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course is a 272-page oversized hardcover focused exclusively on Cuphead's brilliant 2022 DLC (Delicious Last Course). The book takes fans on a frame-by-frame journey through the expansion's seven bosses and The King's Leap challenge arena. Delicious Last Course also introduced Ms. Chalice as a playable character and numerous new NPCs who will likely be featured in this art book.
If you've played Cuphead, you know the level of detail on display in each of the game's inventive boss battles. The DLC actually has as many frames of animation as the base game, despite it only comprising about 25% of the full Cuphead experience. The Art of Cuphead, which focuses on the base game, is a fascinating, must-have book for fans, so we'd expect The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course to provide a similarly insightful look inside Studio MDHR's creative process.
Along with frame-by-frame animation of the bosses from The Delicious Last Course, the book contains early concept art as well as unused ideas.
If you haven't checked out the art book for the base game, you can save about $20 off its list price at Amazon.
Big Cuphead fans will want to check out The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course Deluxe Edition, a limited release featuring a mint-green foil-stamped slipcase, a fold-out portfolio case with a trio of acetate cells, and a ribbon bookmark.
It matches the Deluxe Edition for the base game's art book. Fair warning: The Art of Cuphead Deluxe Edition has only been available to purchase from third-party sellers for years at this point--unlike some video game art books, it truly was "limited edition." If you're interested in the fancy version, locking in your preorder would be a good idea.
You won't be charged for your preorder until the book ships, and you'll get any discounts offered by Amazon until your order ships. You can also get a preorder price guarantee on The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course Deluxe Edition at Target.
Both physical editions have 272 pages, so the preview pages shown below will match your copy of the book when it arrives.
Page 12
"We knew from the beginning that Ms. Chalice had to stand alongside Cuphead and Mugman as an iconic part of a trio. This meant meticulous iteration on her character expressions, including the existence of an 'evil form--Ms. Malice!"
Page 13
"Unlike Cuphead and Mugman, Ms. Chalice only takes corporeal form within a level. These character intro concepts from Animation Supervisor Hanna Abi-Hanna illustrate the challenge of capturing Chalice's emergence from the Astral Plane."
Page 16
"Through Ms. Chalice's animations, we wanted to capture the wide-eyed ingenue that was prototypical of the 1930s cartoon female lead. At the same time, we wanted her movements to imbue her with the sense of grit determination, and impishness common in other characters from the era."
Page 17
This page shows frame-by-frame animation cells of Ms. Chalice crouching.
Page 18
"As with Cuphead and Mugman, Ms. Chalice needed her very own 'death ghost'--the sprite which players see after your character has lost their last hit point..."
Page 19
"Pictured above, the unique frames of Ms. Chalice's death ghost as it floats tearfully off screen, illustrated by Animation Supervisor Hanna Abi-Hanna."
The Art of the Cuphead Show
The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course is the second new art book on the franchise this year. In September, Dark Horse published The Art of the Cuphead Show, a 256-page hardcover book examining the creation of Netflix's great animated series that ran for three seasons in 2022. We previewed The Art of the Cuphead Show before its publication, so you can check out a few pages from that book.
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