Learn how to animate emotion in your characters and add drama to your animation! "Character Emotion in 2D and 3D Animation" deals specifically with body language, facial expressions, emotional reactions, and other methods of giving characters emotion. It also deals with adding emotion and drama to a scene or setting. A majority of animation books cover emotion as a side element. Character emotion is a major element that plays a vital role in the believability of the character. "Character Emotion in 2D and 3D Animation" offers comprehensive coverage of the techniques that can help you create believable emotion in your characters.

Learn how to animate emotion in your characters and add drama to your animation! Character Emotion in 2D and 3D Animation deals specifically with body language, facial expressions, emotional reactions, and other methods of giving characters emotion. It also deals with adding emotion and drama to a scene or setting. A majority of animation books cover emotion as a side element. Character emotion is a major element that plays a vital role in the believability of the character. Character Emotion in 2D and 3D Animation offers comprehensive coverage of the techniques that can help you create believable emotion in your characters.

Any working in animation or computer drawing will find plenty of instruction

Any working in animation or computer drawing will find plenty of instruction on creating characters embedded with drama in Character Emotion in 2D and 3D Animation, a survey of how to recognize emotion in life and apply it to drawings and computer software such as Poser and Maya. Les Pardew is a working professional artist with over twenty years in the industry: his tips on creating exceptional animation make for an important guide especially recommended for both art libraries and collections specializing in computer gaming or animation techniques.

Basic and visually poor

Just received this after ordering for a team of animators at work. The book is very thin on content, works on an extremely basic level and exhibits work that is visually poor. For example facial expressions are labelled and need this labelling to make them obvious, on their own they are visually very ambiguous. Avoid.