Creating Characters With Personality

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Pub. Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher(s): Watson-Guptill
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Summary

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 Personalityshows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context within a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize 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 Mulanplus big-name experts in film, TV, video games, and graphic novelsmake a complex subject accessible to every artist.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

What Does A Character Designer Do All Day?
Two Kinds of Character Designers
Where to Begin
Imagining the Characters
Character Hierarchy
Let's Start Designing Characters!
The Meat, Potatoes, and Veggies of Character Design
Shape
Size
Variance
Begin with the Basic Shapes
Doggy Do!
Creating Appealing Character Drawings
Start with a Circle---Again?
Turning Your Character in 3-D
Pushing Your Design
Drawing (Beautiful) Women
Proportions
Curves and Rhythm
Tilts
Faces and Eyes
Hairstyles and Clothing
Four Legs: A Whole Different Animal
Choose the Nature of Your Beast
Importance of Anatomy
Cuteness Factor
Look Your Age!
Babies
Children
Teens
Adults
Older People
Monsters, Creatures, And Personalities?
Creature Questions
Anatomy 101
Shake and Bake
Let's Give 'Em a Hand
Cyborg A-Go-Go
I'm Not Dead Yet
Exploring a Design
Miscellaneous Fun Stuff
Groupings, or Creating the Cast
Variety Is the Spice of Life
It Takes Two
Putting It All Together: Pose, Color, and Style
Pose and Emote!
The Eyes Have It
Go with the Flow
Color Personality
Rounding Out the Cast
Style

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