Creative Character Design for Games and Animation

Name: Creative Character Design for Games and Animation
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781032152998
Price: 247.0 NZD
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By Jenny Harder

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Creative Character Design for Games and Animation by Jenny Harder offers a thorough guide through the fundamental steps of character design, covering everything from initial brainstorming and gathering references to development and final rendering. It explores a variety of styles, including cartoon, stylised, and semi-realistic, explaining how to distinguish and effectively apply each. The book presents a clear, step-by-step method to create characters from scratch, supplemented by design tips, tricks, checklists, and worksheets for practical use. It also provides valuable advice on working with briefs, clients, and tailoring art for commercial purposes.
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This book is ideal for junior and hobby artists as well as art students aiming to enhance their character design skills specifically for games and animation. It serves as a practical resource for those looking to bridge creativity with professional workflow and client collaboration.

This book takes you through the practice of designing characters for games and animation. It covers aspects such as creative thinking, working with references through to the development phase and final render. It covers a range of styles such as cartoon, stylized and semi-realistic, and explains how to differentiate and use them effectively.

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Creative Character Design for Games and Animation by Jenny Harder takes you through all the basic steps of character design for games and animation, from brainstorming and references to the development phase and final render.

It covers a range of styles such as cartoon, stylized, and semi-realistic, and explains how to differentiate between them and use them effectively. Using a step-by-step approach for each stage of the process, this book guides you through the process of creating a new character from scratch.

It contains a wealth of design tips and tricks as well as checklists and worksheets for you to use in your own projects. This book covers how to work with briefs, as well as providing advice and practical strategies for working with clients and creating art as a product that can be tailored and sold.

This book will be a valuable resource for all junior artists, hobby artists, and art students looking to develop and improve their character development skills for games and animation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032152998

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 61 Halftones, color; 9 Halftones, black and white; 61 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 136

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About the Author

Jenny Harder has been working as art director, visual development and concept artist in animation and games for almost 10 years. Projects she has worked on include the TV show 100% Wolf, UBISOFT’s For Honor and Disney Infinity. She recently directed her own animated short film “Being Good” which won several awards in 2018/2019. She has been giving educational talks at several events like THU, CTN, IFCC and recently started teaching at schools and universities.