Intro
A Character Designer is an artist that creates new, original characters (sometimes shortened to “OCs”) for a purpose. It can be a character based on a definition from a story or script as would be the process in Feature Films, TV Series, Video Games, Children’s books, Web animation, Comic books, Comic strips, or even Licensing or Toy Design.
Traditionally, because there are different knowledge bases and talents involved, there is an environmental or layout concept artist that creates the look and style of the backgrounds (or “world”) while the character designer will concentrate on the character creation only. A good character designer never takes his/her eyes off of the end goal: To create the best character design/ attributes needed for that specific character for its role in the story at hand.
Media
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Character Design for Graphic Novels
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Character Design for Graphic Novels not only showcases the best in character design from the world's leading artists onscreen and on the printed page, but provides you with a hardworking guide to the process behind the evolution and development of character design, the key milestones of the art, the genre busters, and the genre definers. This stunning book offers a unique insight into the creative process, interviewing the genre's leading artists, showcasing their work, and showing how it is done so you can benefit from their expertise when creating your own graphic novel characters. Throughout the book biographies of the major artists in each field, their inspirations, their achievements, and their finest hours, are highlighted to give you the inspiration required to succeed in this competitive field. Learn how popular characters evolved from sketches, drawings, and initial inspirations, through fine-tuning, discussion, and alternative proposals, to onscreen debut and first-edition publication on the printed page. Featured artists include: Colleen Doran (Illustrator on the Neil Gaiman's - New York Times bestselling author- Sandman series), Kurt Busiek (Writer for Marvel Comics), Eddie Campbell (Illustrator of Alan Moore's acclaimed 'From Hell')and Stan Sakai (creator of the famous character Usagi the bunny).
ISBN: 9780240809021Publication Date: 2007-03-30 -
Character Design and Digital Painting
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Digital Character Design and Painting is really two books in one: it teaches the fundamentals of character design, and the skills, tools, and techniques needed to master digital painting. All of the fundamentals of character design are explored, and once the character has been designed and sketched, users learn how to paint it digitally with Corel Painter 7.
ISBN: 9781584502326Publication Date: 2003-01-01 -
Digital Character Design and Painting
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Digital Character Design and Painting: The Photoshop CS Edition, is a completely updated version of this beautifully illustrated, full color book. In the first edition, users learned digital skills using Corel Painter trademark] but in this edition, all the techniques have been updated and modified for use with Photoshop CS.
ISBN: 1584503408Publication Date: 2004-08-04 -
Alive Character Design
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Follow this lively and entertaining book as it illuminates the basics of effective character design. Whether male or female, animal, monster or alien - certain rules apply that animate the figure and elevate it from a two-dimensional plane. Knowledge of a
ISBN: 9780956288073Publication Date: 2011-09-23
