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Force: Animal Drawing
Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators
Series: Force Drawing Series
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This book is ideal for animators, illustrators, and artists focused on mastering animal drawing and movement, especially those seeking to enhance their character design with dynamic expression and realistic locomotion. It's well suited for professionals and students in animation and related creative fields.
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This second edition of Force: Animal Drawing Animal locomotion and design concepts for animators offers readers an enlarged and enhanced selection of images that apply FORCE to animals.
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This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and enhanced selection of images that apply FORCE to animals. With larger images, readers can better appreciate and learn how to bring their own animal illustrations to life. New drawings and facts about the animals create a more comprehensive edition for your library. Readers will also adapt key industry techniques that will help personify animal animations, as well as endowing their creations with human-like expressions and unique animal movement. Content can be found at DrawingFORCE.com.
Key Features:
• This full-colour 10th Anniversary Edition makes FORCE even easier to understand through great diagrams and illustrations.
• Colour-coded page edges help you find more easily the animal you want to draw.
• Learn about key specifications for each mammal, such as their weight range, food they eat, and how fast they run.
• Video content can be found at DrawingFORCE.com.
Series: Force Drawing Series
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Force: Animal Drawing
This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and enhanced selection of images that apply FORCE to animals. With larger images, readers can better appreciate and learn how to bring their own animal illustrations to life. New drawings and facts about the animals create a more comprehensive edition for...HardbackSold Out -
Force: Character Design from Life Drawing
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 colour illustrations and photographs of...PaperbackSold Out -
FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy
The newest book in Michael Mattesi’s Force Drawing series takes movement to the next level. Force: Drawing Human Anatomy explores the different facets of motion and the human body. Rather than relying on memorization, Mattesi emphasises the function of each body part and how gravity, relative to different poses, affects the aesthetics and form of muscle. The chapters are divided...PaperbackSold Out -
FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy
The newest book in Michael Mattesi’s Force Drawing series takes movement to the next level. Force: Drawing Human Anatomy explores the different facets of motion and the human body. As opposed to the memorization technique, Mattesi stresses the function of each body part and how gravity relative to different poses affects the aesthetics and form of muscle. The chapters are...HardbackSold Out -
Force: Animal Drawing
This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and enhanced selection of images that apply FORCE to animals. With larger images, readers can better appreciate and learn how to bring their own animal illustrations to life. New drawings and facts about the animals create a more comprehensive edition for...PaperbackSold Out
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780367637071
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 August 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: CRC Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: 90 Halftones, color; 160 Halftones, black and white; 90 Illustrations, color; 160 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Michael Mattesi has authored several FORCE books, published in numerous languages, utilized around the world to inspire and educate artists on the concept of FORCE. He has instructed FORCE Drawing for over twenty years and inspired thousands of artists.
Simultaneously, Michael has been contributing his skills as a professional artist on numerous award-winning projects in varied capacities and has collaborated with Pixar, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Consumer Products, Marvel Comics, Hasbro Toys, ABC, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, DreamWorks/PDI, Zynga, The School of Visual Arts, Beijing University, Art Center, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, San Jose State University, The Academy of Art University, Nickelodeon, LeapFrog and many others. Michael’s students occupy all fields of the art industry and have themselves gained prestige for their abilities.
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Force: Animal Drawing
This 10th Anniversary Edition of Force: Animal Drawing: Animal Locomotion and Design Concepts for Animators offers readers an enlarged and enhanced selection of images that apply FORCE to animals. With larger images, readers can better appreciate and learn how to bring their own animal illustrations to life. New drawings and facts about the animals create a more comprehensive edition for...HardbackSold Out -
Force: Character Design from Life Drawing
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 colour illustrations and photographs of...PaperbackSold Out -
FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy
The newest book in Michael Mattesi’s Force Drawing series takes movement to the next level. Force: Drawing Human Anatomy explores the different facets of motion and the human body. Rather than relying on memorization, Mattesi emphasises the function of each body part and how gravity, relative to different poses, affects the aesthetics and form of muscle. The chapters are divided...PaperbackSold Out -
FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy
The newest book in Michael Mattesi’s Force Drawing series takes movement to the next level. Force: Drawing Human Anatomy explores the different facets of motion and the human body. As opposed to the memorization technique, Mattesi stresses the function of each body part and how gravity relative to different poses affects the aesthetics and form of muscle. The chapters are...HardbackSold Out
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