Exclusive: Get An Early Look At The Art Of The Cuphead Show Before Next Month’s Release

Contemplating Studio MDHR designed Cuphead to look and sound like a Thirties-era cartoon, the 2017 breakout hit principally screamed: «Adapt me into an actual animated present.» Lower than two years later, Netflix introduced The Cuphead Present. In 2022, simply months earlier than the long-awaited Cuphead DLC arrived, Season 1 debuted on Netflix. Two extra seasons rapidly adopted, with all 36 episodes airing inside a nine-month span. It lived as much as its identify, giving Cuphead and Mugman the endearing throwback cartoon they deserved. Creating The Cuphead Present was clearly a labor of affection, and on September 3, Cuphead followers can get a behind-the-scenes take a look at the way it all got here collectively in The Art of The Cuphead Show.

Written by The Cuphead Present scribe Deeki Deke, the e-book takes followers on a journey detailing the method of adapting the sport’s beloved artwork design for TV. All through the e-book, members of the workforce present commentary to accompany the idea artwork and animatics.

Darkish Horse’s art book for Studio MDHR’s game was superior, and the early take a look at The Cuphead Present artwork e-book we will share with followers as we speak has made GameSpot’s diehard Cuphead followers (it is me) very excited to learn it subsequent month.

The Artwork of The Cuphead Present will likely be revealed by Darkish Horse Books on September 3. The 256-page e-book is offered in hardcover ($50) and Kindle e-book ($30) codecs. Although The Cuphead Present was by no means formally canceled by Netflix, given how Season 3 ended and the time that is handed since, it appears unlikely to return—unless, after all, Studio MDHR decides to make Cuphead 2.

This is a take a look at three full-page spreads from The Artwork of The Cuphead Present, adopted by a take a look at the newest entry in Dark Horse’s Cuphead graphic-novel series and The Art of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course, which Darkish Horse is publishing on November 5.

Although we’ve not had the possibility to peek contained in the upcoming artwork e-book centered on the very good Scrumptious Final Course (DLC), it is price retaining in your radar for those who loved the primary Cuphead artwork e-book.

The 272-page e-book chronicles the design technique of Inkwell Isle 4 and its assortment of boss fights. Cuphead’s DLC has as many frames of animation as all the base sport, so it must be attention-grabbing to see how Studio MDHR introduced it to life. It consists of frame-by-frame animation, idea artwork, concepts that stayed on the chopping room ground, and extra.

The Artwork of Cuphead: The Scrumptious Final Course will likely be revealed by Darkish Horse Books on November 5. Two bodily editions can be found to preorder: a $40 hardcover and a $100 Deluxe model with a mint-green foil slipcase, ribbon bookmark, and foldout portfolio with paintings on three acetate cells.