Character Design. Concept Art for Comics, Video Games, and Animation

If you are a budding artist considering a career in the video game, animation, or professional illustration industries, this book will serve as your training ground for creating vibrant and original characters. Six successful artists showcase, through their works, all the key aspects of character development—from concept and gesture sketches to realization in various stylistic manners. The book is applicable to both digital and traditional graphics and will assist you in creating characters for video games, comics, animation, or commercial illustration. Introductory articles to the book were written by three Russian super-professionals in the CG industry: illustrator Anna Kettish, concept artist and founder of Smirnov School Ivan Smirnov, and character designer for animation Tata Che.