Since I wasn't able to google up the info I needed I decided to just try and get the exhibit catalog book myself. Today it has finally arrived into my hands and it is glorious. I can say it is my new favorite thing.
The book is sold both at the Exhibit itself (currently at the Matsuya Ginza department store) but is also available from the Matsuya Ginza website:
http://www.welci.jp/matsuya/products/detail.php?product_code=62502-EV14
While as far as I could tell they don't ship outside Japan, I have managed to harass a friend in Japan to grab one and send it to me. Anyway, here's what's inside:
More than half of the of the book (111 out of 196 pages) is taken up by the Real Scale Gallery where the various materials are beautifully reproduced in their actual size and full color. This section is done of fairly light weight paper with a matte finish which I guess is done to reproduce the full look of the originals but this leads to things being printed only on one side of the page.
Jo:
0216
0228
0358
0969
1401
1589
1662
1674
1680
jikai-0017
Ha:
0032
0064
0152
0259
0608
0873
1176
1188
0984
0999
1000
1051
1337
1490
1510
1527
1582
1596
1612
1627
1692
1715
1772
1811
1837
1843
1853
Q:
0021
0294
0374
0381
0751
0828
1156
1271
1326
1380
1464
The next section is the Genga Gallery. This (and the rest of the book) is printed on heavier and glossier paper and on both side. This is closer to what you'd find in the CRCs. Sometimes small, sometimes big and a great selection.
Jo:
0060
0062
0013
0203
0376
0397
0406
0531
0616
0814
0827
1202
1321
1340
1349
1362
1404
1435
1447
1464
1474B
1474C
1512
1574
1575
1598
1611
1613
1620
1635
1643
1673
1675
1676
1680
jikai-0009
jikai-0010
jikai-0013
jikai-0015
Ha:
0030
0125
0303
0402A
0402C
0574
0434
0582
0866B
0878
0765
0785
0793
0795
0836
0919
1177
0963
1186
0982
1096
1258
1259
1338
1482
1533
1542
1549
1632
1693
1732
1780
1785
1817
1818
1830
1842
1843
1847
1860
1863
Q:
0129
0206
0291
0337
0348
0378
0390
0507
0534
0696A
0755
0794,0808,0815
1229
1263
1374
1394
1455
1033
Oh and there's two amazing fold-outs. The first one is the layout for that glorious Q ending shot:
The other side has concept drawings for the Giant of Light and Sahaquel
The next section is the Settei Gallery. Character and other designs and reference sheets. This is pretty much exactly what's in the CRC with most of the character art being a lot smaller here.
The highlight of this section for me was that they gave full pages to Takeshi Takakura's layouts for Futagoyama, Matsushiro, Mark.06 at Tabha and Eva lift.
The end of this secion is two pages of tiny thumbs of what I assume is the full list of settei materials on exhibit. So that "catalog" section of the exhibition catalog is just 2 pages...
The 4th section is the explanation of the making of the films. Script, storyboard, imageboard, layout, genga, douga, 3DCG, etc
The 5th and final section is Evangelion History where they give you a taste of Eva TV cels and then some manga pages.
Overall I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS BOOK. Like I said in the opening paragraph it is my new favorite things. It is HUGE. 25.5cm by 35.5cm. The printing quality is also amazing. It's the best I've ever seen. Extremely fine quality. Have a terrible photo to try and demonstrate that.
So how does this compare to the CRC and Groundworks?
The groundworks focuses specifically on the animation, so you get all of your douga and timesheets but to fit all that in an affordable book it's all in black and white.
The CRC is full of interviews, has complete storyboards and the pictures part focuses on the settei, the design work and only occasionally gives you the full color genga/douga.
This book gives you everything in color and a great selection of materials from the layout through to final animation from all 3 movies. There are no insightful interviews and the very brief making-of explanations are all technical.
My only gripe with it is the lack of attributions. That's my main gripe with the Groundworks books. You get lots of material but are never told who is responsible for it. The only time this catalog gives attributions is for things from 1.0 and 2.0 that are already in the CRCs. It was very disappointing to all of that labled in the exhibit thumbs and when it gets to the Q material it just drops the attributions. Seriously. The CRCs label every little sketch and doodle in the book. Surely for the exhibition they could have at least tried attributing stuff. Oh well...hopefully Q CRC fixes this....
Still a very, VERY lovely product and if this is your thing I would recommend trying to acquire it as long as you can pay a reasonable price and avoid the scalpers. The MSRP is 3,000 yen so judge the offers you find accordingly.