Tom Bancroft Knihy

Character Mentor shows you how to pose your character, create emotion through facial expressions, and stage your character to create drama. Character Mentor is an apprenticeship in a book.

From Snow White to Shrek, it is the design that communicates a character's personality, before a single word of dialogue is spoken. This book explains the design concepts, character hierarchy, and on how to work with script, how to maximize a pose, and how to finish a character that sparkles. It also includes advice from professionals.

Throughout time and across cultures, dragons have existed as part of our collective imagination, breathing fire, guarding treasure, and embodying magic.Some are evil, some are kind, and all are fascinating. The Walt Disney Company has had a long-standing fascination with dragons, and this book, conceived as a sketchbook handed down through generations of Disney artists, chronicles the impact that dragons have had on Disney films, parks, and resorts. Inside these pages are the bold storyboards of Sleeping Beauty' s Maleficent, color concepts of Epcot's Figment (who was green before he became purple!), and playful studies of Mulan' s Mushu.The illustrators are a wide variety of animators, live-action studio artists, and Imagineers, including Tim Burton, Rolly Crump, Marc Davis, Eric Goldberg, Bill Justice, John Hench, Joe Rohde, Chuck Ballew, and more. Tom Bancroft, who has worked in animation for more than twenty-five years, offers memories and insights from his tenure as Mushu's lead animator, during which he character designed, and later refined, the look of Mulan's feisty little dragon.

Focusing on character development, this guide teaches readers how to effectively pose characters and convey emotion through facial expressions. It emphasizes staging to enhance dramatic impact and includes practical assignments that encourage hands-on practice. Alongside concrete techniques, the book offers theoretical insights, making it a comprehensive resource for artists looking to elevate their drawing skills.

What could be easier than looking after a neighbour's cats? You have to remember their food, when to let them out and you hope that they will come back home again. But what do they do when you have gone away? Do we find out what they do or even what they think about? Once outside they are free to do whatever they like and that is exactly what they will do! Cats are secret creatures, with eyes wide open and whiskers stiff. Unless you speak 'cat', you will never know what they do or what they are thinking, and they will never tell you.

Find out what's involved in becoming a film animator from a top professional in the field. You'll find out about the animator's heroes, the equipment and skills he uses, and the challenges of producing the illusion of movement from thousands of images called frames!

Marty ist ein geekiger Webdesigner, dessen sehnlichster Wunsch es ist, einmal mit der hübschen Anwältin Alexis von gegenüber auszugehen. Doch als er sie gerade ansprechen will, kommt es zu einem unerwarteten Zwischenfall, in den auch der lokale Superheld Captain Dynamo verwickelt zu sein scheint. Kann es etwa sein, dass Marty und Alexis Captain Dynamos Kräfte abbekommen haben? „Opposite Forces“ ist die witzige Miniserie von Trickfilmzeichnerstar Tom Bancroft, der unter anderem der optische Vater von Simba im „König der Löwen“, Mushu in „Mulan“ und Pocahontas in „Pocahontas“ war. Die Geschichte liegt hier erstmals komplett auf Deutsch mit umfangreichem Bonusmaterial vor. Käufer des Buchs erhalten zusätzlich eine kostenlose Digital Copy im PDF-Format.