Set the Action!: Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games - Couverture souple

Hernandez, Elvin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0240820533 ISBN 13 : 9780240820538

Editeur : Focal Press, 2012

Synopsis

Set the Action! Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games Background, setting, environment, whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story. This title can help you create the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Create the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Background, setting, environment.whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story. If you're in the habit of creating disembodied characters or adding backgrounds as an afterthought, Set the Action! will help you understand and utilize the importance of the setting in your narrative. Understand perspective, blocking, and color-and focus your narrative by establishing and designing your setting to interact with characters and story.

• Author Elvin Hernandez carries you through this sometimes dry topic with ample visuals, including a comic book narrative, and an unyielding focus on how backgrounds affect your story
• Apply the fundamentals with examples from all genres-animation, comics, games, and live-action films
• Companion website gives you multimedia examples, tools for your own drawing, like perspective grids, additional artwork, and links to more resources

Biographie de l'auteur :

MFA in sequential art; Faculyy member, Media Arts and Animation Dept, Art Institute of Washington; Kaiser Studio Productions, sequential artist, freelance writer, and illustrator that has worked on magazines, games, and comics.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Focal Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0240820533
• ISBN 13: 9780240820538
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234