Creating Characters for the Entertainment Industry

Creating Characters for the Entertainment IndustryStep behind the scenes of the animation, illustration, and video game industries to learn how their characters are briefed and designed. Indispensable for both students and professional character designers alike, this book focuses on how to tailor your work to meet the individual needs of audience, media, marketing, and production, while still creating truly dynamic, imaginative, and original characters. #### More about this book #### Engaging and

while Dung Ho leads a fast and effective warm-up exercise

Discover how top children’s illustrators portray characters

Beste Erel by Nykolai Alexander

It is a great source of inspiration for both students and professionals

Drawing an archetypal figure

Pleasure Droid by Carlos Cabrera

Illustrated by Dom "Scruffy" Murphy

Elfin features

and an array of more personable characters bound from the inside of issue 12

and uncover the tools and techniques used by Sam Nassour to develop his captivating cover art

A narrative illustration project with Eduardo Vieira

Creative workflows