Set the Action! Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games: Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games - Softcover

Hernandez, Elvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240820533 ISBN 13: 9780240820538

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Create the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Background, setting, environment.whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story. If you're in the habit of creating disembodied characters or adding backgrounds as an afterthought, Set the Action! will help you understand and utilize the importance of the setting in your narrative. Understand perspective, blocking, and color-and focus your narrative by establishing and designing your setting to interact with characters and story.

About this title

About the Author

MFA in sequential art; Faculyy member, Media Arts and Animation Dept, Art Institute of Washington; Kaiser Studio Productions, sequential artist, freelance writer, and illustrator that has worked on magazines, games, and comics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240820533
• ISBN 13: 9780240820538
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240