Focal Press | ISBN:0240820711 | File Type: PDF, 163 pages | File size: 74.Mb | May. 8th, 2012
Computer Graphics: Learn by Example to Use Expressions Poses and Staging to Bring Your Characters to Life You ve researched your character extensively tailored her to your audience sketched hundreds of versions and now you lean back content as you gaze at your final character model sheet But now what Whether you want to use her in an animated film television show video game web comic or children s book you re going to have to make her perform How a character looks and is costumed starts to tell her story but her body language reveals even more Character Mentor shows you how to pose your character create emotion through facial expressions and stage your character to create drama Author Tom Bancroft addresses each topic with clear concise prose and then shows you what he really means through commenting on and redrawing artwork from a variety of student apprentices His assignments allow you to join in and bring your drawing to the next level with concrete techniques as well as more theoretical analysis Character Mentor is an apprenticeship in a book rofessional artists from a variety of media offer their experience through additional commentary These include Marcus Hamilton Dennis the Menace Terry Dodson X Men Bobby Rubio ixar Sean Cheeks Galloway Spiderman animated and more With a foreword by comicbook artist Adam Hughes who has produced work for DC Marvel Comics Lucasfilm Warner Bros ictures and other companies Learn by example get concrete ways to strengthen your drawings and characters and input from veteran artists working in a variety of mediaImprove your own drawings with the well thought out assignments in each chapter and then visit the accompanying website to see the author s commentary on students assignmentsAccompanying website features video of the author commenting on and redrawing apprentice artwork
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