Creating Professional Characters: Develop Spectacular Designs from Basic Concepts is an inspiring and informative exploration of how popular professional character designers take the basic concept of a character in a production brief and develop these ideas into an original, high-quality design. Suitable for student and professional character designers alike, this book focuses on how to approach your character designs in ways that ensure the target audience and production needs are met while still creating fun, imaginative characters. This visually appealing book includes twenty thorough tutorials guiding you through the design and decision making processes used to create awesome characters. Replicating the processes used in professional practice today, this book demonstrates the types of brief a professional designer might receive, the iterative design process used to explore the brief, the influence of production feedback on the final design, and how final designs are presented to clients. This detailed, enlightening book is an excellent guide to creating incredible imaginative characters suitable for your future professional projects.
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CREATING CHARACTERS FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY: Develop Spectacular Designs from Basic Concepts
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Maria Dolgay –
I’m an aspiring character designer and illustrator, and currently a freelance book cover artist and illustrator, I got this book today and went through it, this is really an amazing book for all those aspiring character designers or those who have interest in digital illustration, this book covers all the essential fundamentals of the three industries, animation, illustration and video games. This book would definitely help me improve my skills and illustration, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Delphine Pidou –
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Delphine Pidou –
La calidad de impresión es increíble. Muy buen tamaño. Ha llegado todo perfecto.
chiara –
Ce livre est divisé de manière diffèrente que son prédécesseur (creating stylized characters) :
Il est composé de 4 thèmatiques différentes : un aventurier, un magicien, un dragon et un écolier .
Pour chaque personnage, un chapitre divisé a chaque fois en trois parties : video games, illustration, et animation.
On voit donc pour chaque personnage les spécificités qui vont être demandées dans le monde du jeu vidéo, de l’animation où de l’illu, expliqué à chaque fois par un artiste renomé.
C’est un très bon ouvrage pour se perfectionner!
Mais si vous voulez vraiment apprendre a styliser des personnages, privilegiez Creating stylized characters qui sera plus générale. Ici ce sont vraiment des conseils pour des rendus déjà bien poussés.
Un super complément de qualité !!
J’espère que cela vous sera Utile ;)!!
chiara –
La 3dtotal publishing è una garanzia, ho già un paio di volumi di loro pubblicazione e credo che in futuro ne acquisterò sicuramente altri, utili e anche molto belli da vedere!
“Creating Characters for the Entertainment Industry” è un volume bello corposo, sia per contenuto che per fattura,
le spiegazioni sono chiare, essenziali e ben strutturate, inoltre il libro è stampato su carta patinata con una buona grammatura, dopo una breve premessa, ci sono due pagine dedicate alla struttura del libro
o meglio al “come usarlo”,
il volume è essenzialmente diviso in 3 parti/capitoli: 1 “Dietro le scene”
2 “Tutorials”
3 “Bonus Briefs”
La prima parte è dedicata al lavoro e al come farlo, prima della creazione di un personaggio, per ognuno dei 3 media presentati, nella seconda, 3 artisti realizzano dei charters design mettendo in pratica le info del capitolo precedente, mentre nell’ultimo capitolo ci sono dei “Bonus briefs” appunto, per fare direttamente pratica.