Creating Characters with Personality

Name: Creating Characters with Personality
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780823023493
Price: 55.0 NZD
Availability: OutOfStock

By T Bancroft

0.0 (0 reviews)

4.22

( 463 ratings, 13 reviews)

Summary

Creating Characters with Personality guides artists through designing distinctive characters that communicate their essence visually before speaking. From classic icons to modern favourites, author T Bancroft shares techniques to develop characters, place them meaningfully in scripts, and enhance impact through pose and expression. Practical exercises help bring characters to life, supported by insights from Bancroft, known for Disney's Mushu in Mulan, and other industry experts.
Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK Please add to wishlist to be notified when back in stock

Sorry, we're currently out of stock of Creating Characters with Personality. Please add to your Wishlist and we'll send you an email as soon as it's back in stock.

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book is ideal for illustrators, animators, and aspiring character designers seeking practical advice and expert guidance to create memorable, expressive characters for film, television, comics, and games.

From Snow White to Shrek, it is the design that communicates a character's personality, before a single word of dialogue is spoken. This book explains the design concepts, character hierarchy, and on how to work with script, how to maximize a pose, and how to finish a character that sparkles. It also includes advice from professionals.

Description

From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob SquarePants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken.

Designing Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context within a script, establish hierarchy, and maximise 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780823023493

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 217.0mm

Height: 277.0mm

Weight: 624g

Pages: 144

Collections

Arts & Culture Manga Non-Fiction Penguin Books T Bancroft

About the Author

Tom Bancroft has been an animator for more than fifteen years, working for Disney and Big Idea Productions (producers of Veggie Tales). Most recently, he contributed to Disney's Brother Bear. He lives in Franklin, TN.