| Creating Characters with Personality: For Film, TV, Animation, Video Games, and Graphic Novels | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Bancroft
Creator: Glen Keane
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 9945
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0823023494
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.6
EAN: 9780823023493
ASIN: 0823023494
Publication Date: February 1, 2006
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Product Description
Character design is the key in many industriesand theyre all covered in this book Practical step-by-step exercises Contributors include Glen Keane, Supervising Animator, Disney From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob Square-Pants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken. Creating Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context with 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 Disneys Mulanplus big-name experts in film, TV, video games, and graphic novelsmake a complex subject accessible to every artist.
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 The perfect help for a professional and aspirant designer November 26, 2008
I love this book , is very helpfool for people who needs to answer the normal questions about how to paint and create original characters.
Great Inspiration October 12, 2008
It's valuable to know how a professional approaches character development. I believe that initial hurdle of creation is an obstacle for many artists and this book helps get over that. Working without a model is very intimidating. If you are in this situation, this book will help a lot. There is a reason those animated characters are so appealing and funny. This author tries to tackle that difficult subject. This book is definitely worthy to own. The way you tell a good book is by the knowledge you walk away with and your desire to extend that knowledge in your own way.
Creating Characters with Personality for film September 20, 2008
This is a very light book on the subject of using cartoon techniques to inject personality into animated characters. The author's background in the Disney film animation studio made the book something less than I was looking for. I still found the Disney approach to character creation usefully laid out. That I was looking for the Pixar or Hayao Miyazaki's approach is irrelevant. This book is plenty of material for somebody doing light animation stories.
 Now I Know Why August 25, 2008
I've read several how to draw books. So far the the most instruction I've ever gotten was "do this, then do that." The books never explained why. This book explains why. The reason why you start out with simple shapes was probably the biggest "Oh yeah! OK!" moment for me and there were several other momnets.
The book is very well narrated. I actually read through this like a story book, the first time. It is easy to follow and at the end of each chapter there are homework assignments to help you get going. The assignments are a little tough, so you are expected to know how to do a few things, but I haven't met a how to draw book that started with "This is how you draw a line."
I personally love Anime and Manga and that is the style of art I try to emulate. With this book it doesn't matter what style of art you are trying to master, you will get help from this book.
excellent resource for anyone wanting to improve character design skills! August 23, 2008
This book by Tom Bancroft was a very entertaining and helpful read. I am not a professional in the field of animation or illustration, but I am trying to learn how to improve my skills in the area of character design in hopes of moving into this field in the future. This book does an excellent job of covering all the different facets involved in designing and bringing to life a drawing with real personality. It teaches the basic principles needed to convey character types, emotion, and personality with many helpful examples.
The two best "stand-out" features of the book to me are the guest artists who each come from a different field of "cartooning"; whether it be humorous cartooning, tv animation, comic books, or feature film animation, to name a few. It was very interesting and informative to read these professional's take on designing the same character, and to see how each artist approached it. The other "stand-out" feature was the progression of assignments given throughout the book. These really helped me get a feel for what a real assignment could actually be like for a character designer. They were very helpful in allowing me to think through the process of designing each character for the "script" provided in the assignments.
All in all, my hat's off to Tom and company for a wonderful resource for aspiring professionals and hobby artists alike. Definitely a wonderful investment!
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