The Complete Guide to Anime Techniques: Create Mesmerizing Manga-Style Animation with Pencils, Paint, and Pixels

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Japanese animation is one of the most exciting and influential media of recent years. With its distinctive style and vibrant colors, this dominant entertainment force has transcended the world of animation to influence movies, video games, graphic design, and even fashion. Discover how to create dynamic anime using traditional or digital media.
  • Learn the core style elements and visual language of anime. Simplify characters without losing their impact, create exaggerated facial expressions; use shadows and shading for dramatic effects, add lip synching and speed lines to convey movement.
  • Richly illustrated with screengrabs, stills, and artwork, step-by-step tutorials demonstrate key skills such as hand-painting characters and backgrounds on separate cel layers, working with 3-D graphics, and using digital pen-and-tone techniques.
  • Every stage of the animation process is explained, from scripting and storyboarding to preparing and distributing your movie. Includes information on storytelling conventions and advice on characterization.

    Chi Hang Li is a graphic design graduate who specializes in Contemporary Digital Arts. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he has a natural affinity with Asian cultures and their aesthetic principles. Chi has been a lifelong devotee of Japanese Manga/Anime and has been a dedicated Manga and Anime illustrator for many years, publishing his work online.

    Chris Patmore is a London-based writer specializing in creative technology. He is the author of The Complete Animation Course (Barron's) and Movie Making Course (Barron's) and runs a website for animators and comic book artists.

    Hayden Scott-Baron is a professional video game artist, focusing on character design. He has produced artwork and scripts for several manga-styled graphic novels and has created character illustrations for books, magazines, and advertisements. He is the author of Digital Manga Techniques (Barron's).

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    Contents

    CONTENTS
    CHAPTER
    Anime variations
    Copyright

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    Common terms and phrases

    2D animation action Adobe Akira animation software Animator's tip anime eyes anime style artist Astroboy background basic blur CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY cel shading cel-shaded character design character's color create DAZ Studio detail dialogue DIEGO OF CALIFORNIA DIEGO SAN DIEGO THE LIBRARIES digital animation drawing editing ELVIS Essential animation skills example film Final Cut Express format frames genre graphics tablet inking keyframe layer LIBRARIES CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES SAN DIEGO LIBRARIES THE SAN Lip synch look motion tween movement movie Multiplane camera package painting Parallax scrolling pencil Photoshop pixel popular Princess Mononoke production SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA scene screenplay script sequence sheet shot shows sketch sound effects special effects speed lines Story and character storyboards storytelling Studio Ghibli techniques timeline Toon Boom Studio traditional animation UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vector animation visemes visual voiceover walk cycle western animation x-sheet

    About the author (2006)

    Chris Patmore is the author of several other books on film animation, including two published in North America by Barron's: Movie Marking Course and The Complete Animation Course. Hayden Scott Baron is a professional video games artist, illustrator of several manga-styled-graphic novels, and author of Digital Manga Techniques, also published in North America by Barron's.

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    TitleThe Complete Guide to Anime Techniques: Create Mesmerizing Manga-Style Animation with Pencils, Paint, and Pixels
    Barron's educational series
    AuthorsChi Hang Li, Chris Patmore, Hayden Scott-Baron
    Editionillustrated
    PublisherBarron's, 2006
    Original fromthe University of California
    DigitizedAug 19, 2010
    ISBN0764133802, 9780764133800
    Length128 pages
    Subjects ›  › 

    Art / Digital
    Art / Techniques / General
    Performing Arts / Animation
    Performing Arts / Film / General
      
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