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Anime Mania How To Draw Characters For

by Christopher Hart

Anime Mania How To Draw Characters For Cover

ISBN13: 9780823001583
ISBN10: 082300158x
Condition: Standard
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There's no doubt about it: Japanese animation is hot. Television shows, films, and videos featuring the anime style of animation are wildly popular. Japanese animation is like a comic book come to life, retaining all its power but in moving form. It has a very different style from traditional western animation, incorporating heavy shading, dramatic camera angles, and beautifully rendered special effects ? especially the fantastic anime depictions of ocean waves, storms, smoke, and explosions. Easier to draw than its western counterpart, anime is more limited and simpler in its execution. In Japanese anime the characters move, but their movements are generally staccato, sharp, and dramatic — not free-flowing with lots of overlapping action, anticipation, and follow-through.

In Anime Mania, famous cartoonist, teacher, and best-selling author Christopher Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Step by step, he details how to draw the coolest anime characters from the widest selection of popular styles: high-tech cyberpunks who live in the world of the future; teen characters ? with troubled relationships at school, home, and on the street; and mighty monsters, fantasy warriors, and giant robots. Aspiring animators will also find chapters on anime's spectacular special effects, the role of storyboarding in anime, sketching and the art of character design, and a mini-crash course in perspective. The book concludes with interviews with Scott Frazier, an American anime director working in Japan, and Mahiro Meada, a renowned Japanese animation director.

Brimming with hundreds of spectacular examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Anime Mania details how anyone can become a real anime artist without having to reinvent the art of drawing.

Synopsis:

A guide to drawing Japanese animation. Christopher Hart demonstrates how to draw anime characters from a wide selection of styles. There are chapters on anime's special effects; the role of storyboarding in anime; character design; and perspective. Examples and exercises are included.

Synopsis:

Famous cartoonist, teacher, and bestselling author Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in the wonderful style of anime. 300 illustrations, 200 in color.

About the Author

Cartoonist and teacher Christopher Hart lives in Westport, Connecticut.

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kawaiichick, August 17, 2006 (view all comments by kawaiichick)
I love all Christopher Hart's drawing books!!! It was my sister who first got one of them from the library, and after i saw his how-to-draw manga book, i started buying all sorts of Christopher Hart books. I love all the books he's published and i will continue to pursue his new books!!!

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780823001583
Subtitle:
How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation
Author:
Hart, Christopher
Publisher:
Watson-Guptill Publications
Location:
New York
Subject:
Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject:
Drawing
Subject:
Cartooning
Subject:
Animation
Subject:
Drawing - Other Specific subjects
Subject:
Techniques - Cartooning
Subject:
Techniques - Drawing - Specific Subjects
Subject:
Drawing -- Technique.
Subject:
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- Technique.
Copyright:
Series:
Christopher Hart Titles
Series Volume:
102
Publication Date:
July 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
144
Dimensions:
11.02x8.44x.32 in. 1.02 lbs.

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