"Layout and Design Made Amazingly Simple"
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Designing Cartoon Characters for Animation Book by Brian Lemay - 1991
360 pages for $35.00 US

Within the animation studio the layout department has become more and more important in series productions especially for studios that send their work over seas to be animated. This book covers all the departments that deal directly with the layout process. Each chapter clearly covers all the theory and applications involved.

This book is becoming the industry standard for educating people interested in becoming layout artists. The book has been widely sold to many College and University level animation programs and is currently used as part of the curriculum in the world famous Sheridan College Classical Animation program.

Check out any other book on animation and you'll find that they simply don't discuss the full process of layout in any depth at all. This book gives you all the technical and artistic theories involved. Lots and lots of illustrations and examples are scattered throughout.


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These are the chapter headings and topics covered:

PRODUCTION EXPLANATION
PERSPECTIVE
CHARACTER DESIGN
LOCATION DESIGNS
PROP SHEETS
STORYBOARDS
LAYOUTS: TECHNICAL
LAYOUTS: LAYOUT ARTIST'S THOUGHT PROCESS
CREATING THE LAYOUT PACKAGE
FIELD GUIDES
POSING
HELD CELS
MATCHLINES
BACKGROUNDS
COMPOSITION
STRUCTURE
OVERLAYS & UNDERLAYS
SCENE FOLDERS
LEVEL SKETCHES
SPECIAL EFFECTS



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