Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytelling

A global bestseller on visual storytelling.

Marcos Mateu-Mestre is a concept artist, storyboard artist, and author of graphic novels, with more than twenty years of experience in feature animation. He has participated in the creation of films such as "Balto," "How to Train Your Dragon," "The Road to El Dorado," "Puss in Boots," and "Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish." Marcos Mateu-Mestre summarized all his experience in the books "Framed Ink" and "Framed Ink 2," which are recognized as the best publications on visual storytelling.
To create a successful storyboard or comic, it's not enough to be able to draw beautifully and competently. To present a captivating story, to make the viewer or reader believe in the reality you have invented and empathize with the characters, it's important to use the tools of visual language in accordance with your concept and the demands of the plot.
In this book, Marcos Mateu-Mestre introduces the reader to the wide variety of techniques in visual storytelling and uses clear examples to show how to create atmospheric and expressive images that speak for themselves through lighting, framing, angle, camera movement, composition, and the language of form.
For animators, comic artists, storyboard artists, and illustrators.