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Creating Stylized Animals

How to design compelling real and imaginary animal characters
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Creating Stylized Animals reveals the art of crafting captivating animal characters inspired by beloved creations from studios like Disney and Pixar. The book offers step-by-step tutorials by professional illustrators and animators, guiding readers from initial research to shape, gesture, and colour exploration. It covers essential design fundamentals such as anatomy and anthropomorphism, empowering artists to develop animals full of personality that engage audiences across mediums.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for artists of all skill levels seeking to create memorable animal characters, including beginners eager to learn design principles and professionals expressing creativity in video games, TV, books, or other artistic projects.

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Learn how to create compelling and accomplished stylized animal characters, with the step-by-step guidance of professional animators and artists.

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Unlock the secrets to creating stylised animals that enchant and entertain their audience, resulting in characters that follow in the popular paw-prints of much-loved creatures from Disney, DreamWorks, Pixar, and other great studios.

Creating Stylized Animals focuses on the art and craft of developing stylised characters from the animal kingdom, both real and imagined. Some of the best professional illustrators and animators, dedicated to creating characters for video games, TV, and books, guide the reader through accessible step-by-step tutorials. These experts create specially commissioned animals, demonstrating their process from the all-important research stage and experimenting with thumbnails, to manipulating shape language, exploring gesture, and assessing colour palettes.

Animal-focused design fundamentals include anatomy and anthropomorphism, and how to imbue these animals with the personality and characteristics essential to capturing the attention of audiences of all ages.

This book is perfect for artists of all mediums, ensuring newcomers to drawing the animal kingdom are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to create their own eye-catching characters. Whether tasked with creating an adorable comedy critter to captivate the audience, or an imaginary creature to carry an adventure-packed narrative, this book is the artist's best friend from start to finish.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781912843251

Publisher: 3DTotal Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 April 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: 3DTotal Publishing Ltd

Illustration: Black & white and color illustrations throughout

Contributors:

  • Edited by 3dtotal Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 259.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 280

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