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By
Mike Mattesi, Director of the Entertainment Art Academy based in Southern California. He has been a professional production artist and instructor for
almost 20 years with clients including Disney, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Dreamworks and Nickelodeon.
Description
Design creative characters inspired by real people. Let Mike Mattesi show you how to use life drawing to discover the poses, features
and personalities which form the basis of character and then build, develop and 'PUSH' your drawings to new heights of dramatic and visual
impact for believable characters audiences can relate to.
Packed with color illustrations and photographs of the models who inspired
them. With step-by-step explanation of how the characters were developed and exercises for you to sharpen your skills this is everything
you need to bring your characters to life.
Audience
Novice animators who want to break into the business, animation professionals who want to expand their talent.
Also, illustrators, concept artists, games designers and comic book artists.
Contents
Key Concepts
- Fear
- Risk
- Opinion
- Hierarchy
- Contrast and Affinity
Force with Character
- Amazing angles
- Developing ideas
Space with Character
- Spatial Bounding Box
- Playing with depth
- Forced perspective
- Ratio/ Size
- Overlap
- Creating flat design
Shape with Character
- Straight to Curve Design
- Forceful Triangle
- The Brilliant Bounding Box
- Seeing ratios through Hierarchy
- Facial Ratios
- The law of Thirds
Costume with Character
- Tonal Theory
- Color theory
- Imaginative Designs
Reportage with Character
- Using forced perspective
- The character behind architecture
- Forcing the stories
Animals with Character
- Pulling character out
of animals
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Paperback, 256 pages, publication date: MAY-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80993-9
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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