Creating Stylized Animals: How to design compelling real and imaginary animal characters - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912843250 ISBN 13: 9781912843251

Publisher: 3DTotal Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Unlock the secrets to creating stylized animals that enchant and entertain their audience, resulting in characters that follow in the popular paw-prints of much-loved creatures from Disney, DreamWorks, Pixar, and other great studios. Creating Stylized Animals focuses on the art and craft of developing stylized characters from the animal kingdom, both real and imagined. Some of the best professional illustrators and animators dedicated to creating characters for video games, TV, and books, guide the reader through accessible step-by-step tutorials. These experts create specially commissioned animals, demonstrating their process from the all-important research stage and experimenting with thumbnails, to manipulating shape language, exploring gesture, and assessing color palettes. Animal-focused design fundamentals include anatomy and anthropomorphism, and how to imbue these animals with the personality and characteristics essential to capturing the attention of audiences of all ages. This book is perfect for artists of all mediums, ensuring newcomers to drawing the animal kingdom are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to create their own eye-catching characters. Whether tasked with creating an adorable comedy critter to captivate the audience, or an imaginary creature to carry an adventure-packed narrative, this book is the artist’s best friend from start to finish.

Edition details

• Publisher: 3DTotal Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912843250
• ISBN 13: 9781912843251
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Publishing 3dtotal