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Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels

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Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.6
EAN: 9780823023493
ISBN: 0823023494
Label: Watson-Guptill
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Release Date: 2006-02-01
Studio: Watson-Guptill
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Summary: fun to read resource
Comment: have been waiting for the book for a very long time, well i should it has been worth it. if you have no idea how to create a character and shape it give it the characteristics you must buy this book because this is a really easy to understand and follow book in order to learn character creation and design..
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Summary: The perfect help for a professional and aspirant designer
Comment: I love this book , is very helpfool for people who needs to answer the normal questions about how to paint and create original characters.
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Summary: Great Inspiration
Comment: It's valuable to know how a professional approaches character development. I believe that initial hurdle of creation is an obstacle for many artists and this book helps get over that. Working without a model is very intimidating. If you are in this situation, this book will help a lot. There is a reason those animated characters are so appealing and funny. This author tries to tackle that difficult subject. This book is definitely worthy to own. The way you tell a good book is by the knowledge you walk away with and your desire to extend that knowledge in your own way.
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Summary: Creating Characters with Personality for film
Comment: This is a very light book on the subject of using cartoon techniques to inject personality into animated characters. The author's background in the Disney film animation studio made the book something less than I was looking for. I still found the Disney approach to character creation usefully laid out. That I was looking for the Pixar or Hayao Miyazaki's approach is irrelevant. This book is plenty of material for somebody doing light animation stories.
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Summary: Now I Know Why
Comment: I've read several how to draw books. So far the the most instruction I've ever gotten was "do this, then do that." The books never explained why. This book explains why. The reason why you start out with simple shapes was probably the biggest "Oh yeah! OK!" moment for me and there were several other momnets.

The book is very well narrated. I actually read through this like a story book, the first time. It is easy to follow and at the end of each chapter there are homework assignments to help you get going. The assignments are a little tough, so you are expected to know how to do a few things, but I haven't met a how to draw book that started with "This is how you draw a line."

I personally love Anime and Manga and that is the style of art I try to emulate. With this book it doesn't matter what style of art you are trying to master, you will get help from this book.
  
Editorial Reviews:
• Character design is the key in many industries—and they’re all covered in this book

• Practical step-by-step exercises

• Contributors include Glen Keane, Supervising Animator, Disney

From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob Square-Pants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken. Creating Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context with a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize the impact of pose and expression. Practical exercises help readers put everything together to make their new characters sparkle. Lessons from the author, who designed the dragon Mushu (voiced by Eddie Murphy) in Disney’s Mulan—plus big-name experts in film, TV, video games, and graphic novels—make a complex subject accessible to every artist.
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