Professional illustrators, animators and cartoonists, well versed in creating characters for video games, comics and film, guide the reader through accessible tutorial projects packed with images and advice. 3D artist Maruf Nasir takes Varun Nair’s Stoner character concept and turns it into 3D, with ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, Maya, and Arnold dMbYahoo. Creating Stylized Characters gives readers a valuable insight into the popular art of character design. This is an insightful and useful resource for anyone who wants to learn more and get better at character design. From 2D concept to 3D: creating a stylized character. Then in goes into the individual character projects.Įach character project is a step by step exploration on the different aspects of the design process, starting with the idea and concept, moving on to research, to create thumbnails, basic shapes, details, expressions, poses, colours and adding variations to get more iterations from the same character.
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The book starts of with instruction poses, expressions, colours and thumbnailing. Delve into the vibrant, exciting world of character design with Creating Stylized Characters Join professional illustrators, animators, and comic artists as they demonstrate how to exaggerate form and proportion. Fundamentals of Character Design: How to Create Engaging Characters for Illustration, Animation & Visual Development. Fast forward a few years, we now have so many wonderful character design resources and instructional books available to us.Ĭreating Stylized Characters is a project based book filled with many tutorials you can follow along.
I still remember a time when books on character design were a rarity.