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Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Signed)
Capture the force in your life drawing subjects with this practical guide to dynamic drawing techniques - packed with superb, powerfully drawn examples that show you how to:
- Bring your work to life with rhythmic drawing techniques
- Create appealing and dynamic poses in your drawings
- Experience the figure's energy in three dimensional space
- Use the asymmetry of straight and curved lines to clarify the direction of force in the body
- Build on your foundational anatomy and figure drawing skills to animate your drawings
- Apply the theory of force to your on-location and animal drawing observations
Whether you are an animator, comic book artist, illustrator or fine arts' student you'll learn to use rhythm, shape, and line to bring out the life in any subject while Mike Mattesi's infectious enthusiasm will have you reaching for your pencils!
Reportage 101
Price Per DVD: $15.00 (hardcover)
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Reportage 101
Explore the lost art form of on-location drawing. This book will take you from the streets of New York to The Walt Disney World theme parks in Florida. See crisp, black and white crow quill drawings define texture, story and design. The original drawing for this cover is ten feet long!
Dean Yeagle Designing Mandy
Dean Yeagle tells all in this revealing DVD on designing Mandy. Learn about what makes Mandy the woman she is. Learn the tricks to making beautiful female faces as Dean takes you through his processes on all areas of Mandy’s facial appeal. Dean also covers posing and gestures, abstract shapes for design, and drawing and illustrating elegant female anatomy! After watching this DVD you will have a great understanding on what it takes to illustrate a beautiful pin up girl.
Artist Bio: DEAN YEAGLE
Dean Yeagle has worked in most every capacity in the animation industry, and has his own production company; he's also illustrated children's books and designed corporate characters. Since October 2000, he's contributed regular gag cartoons to Playboy Magazine, which has led to self-published sketchbooks and a pinup-girl character named Mandy.
John Nevarez Design
John Nevarez reveals his methods to designing characters with humanity, whimsy and appeal. Learn about putting character into inanimate objects. John goes in depth on how he does this while explaining multiple design techniques. He also discusses the use of value, staging and grouping. This DVD ends with John creating a concept illustration from beginning to end. See his process on developing this humorous and beautiful image.
Artist Bio: JOHN NEVAREZ
John Nevarez is currently at IDT as a Visual development artist. Formerly, he worked as a storyboard artist and designer for Disneytoon Studios. Projects include Kim Possible, Kronk’s New Groove, and the Tinkerbell Movie. He is also working on several personal projects as well as completing his second personal sketchbook. Check out his blog at john-nevarez@blogspot.com
Storyboard Elements by Sherm Cohen
Sherm Cohen instructs on the fundamentals of story. Learn about beats, how to board relative to the heart of story and how to use panels and cutting. Learn about camera angle and composition. See how they relate to story and character. Sherm also discusses how to choose your framing with clear purpose. Lastly, Sherm covers transitions, progression of shots, screen direction, tricks on crowd shots and avoiding common pitfalls. This DVD is packed with everything you need to know about the key elements to storyboarding.
Artist Bio: SHERM COHEN
After starting out as a small press comic book artist and magazine gag cartoonist, Sherm entered the animation field as a character layout artist for The Ren & Stimpy Show. Sherm went from Storyboard Revisionist to Storyboard Artist and director on Hey Arnold over the course of the first three seasons. For the first four seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants, Sherm served as writer, director, storyboard artist and Storyboard Supervisor. He was also Lead Storyboard Artist and Character Designer for the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Sherm also storyboarded at Cartoon Network Studios and is now at Walt Disney Studios. His newest book, "Cartooning: Designing Characters" is published by Walter Foster Publications.
