The Silver Way: Techniques, Tips, and Tutorials for Effective Character Design

Well-rounded, covers a lot of material, easy to read through, clearly organized, and comes with tons of examples , this is the best if you want create new Disney style characters. 1. This is a book about fundamental concepts, Once you have learned them you won't need any outside help. You will be able to create endless characters , you wouldn't need another character design book or course. 2. He covers all the aspect of Disney style character design topics . Why and how they look good. Why they are attractive. From Body proportions to facial expression. I can't remember a topic he didn't include in his book. 3. Pretty much all rounded book about character design. Some important fundamental concepts about characters design are covered in this books are Dynamic poses Style development Body proportions Drawing body forms Drawing faces Gesture & Poses Facial expressions Hair & Costume Using basic shapes to generate limitless different characters with personalities.

Recently got this book. And man do I love it. It is a treasure for me. The exercises and examples given in this book are really great and helpful. They have been explained properly. Stephen Silver is an amazing character designer and I have been a fan of him since Kim Possible. So this book was a sure buy for me. Highly recommended for any character designer or vis dev artists.

It's like a bible for all young animators. Best to learn character design.

It helped a lot, if you are character designer have a copy of it. It's worth buying.

Might overwhelm a beginner but overall great content! Then again, I am not sure if the intended audience of this book are total beginners - most likely, it is not - as the book is for character design approaches... Some prior drawing experiences, experimentations, etc will help.

This is exactly what I need right now in my career. Thank you so much Mr. Silver. Have a great life.

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awesome book for character designing .. fundamentals are so clear ..

Estoy muy contento con la compra. Me parece un auténtico libro para estudiar por la cantidad de tutoriales y ejercicios que vienen dentro del libro. Muy recomendable para los dibujantes tanto principiantes como los más profesionales y quieren dar un empujón a su dibujo de caricaturas.

Compared to many other books about this theme - it really decribes the way good how to come up with good designs. It includes a pile of good examples how to gerate a ide and you can see how the mwthod works and helps yourself to come up with your own routine to do so. The book has more Illustrations than text what I personally prefer. It is NOT about realistic drawing, Just to point out the main points: basic of character design (storey, obseration), some sketching technics,(caricature, flip-it, blur, diferent media, ) his technic he teachs: story, gesture, design, form and details, And the following 5 chapters go into the detail of that. And that very good. If you more into technical general or want to deepen this, with more usefull knowledge, I would recommend you the books from "Scott Robertson" "How to render" or "How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination" and one of the force books from "Michael Mattesi" like "Force - Drawing Human Anatomy". With this set of books (this and the others) you have all the necessary help to come up with your own art and style for character and other design.

I've been in animation for over 30 years myself, seen a lot of books on a lot of aspects of animation come and go. This one is different. Stephen Silver is an acknowledged master character designer and caricaturist, he's done dozens of TV cartoons and made numerous characters stand out and stand apart. He simply knows his stuff. This book is thick, heavy and chock full of info, tips, guidance and is like sitting right at his elbow being mentored on this stuff. In my opinion, any 10 pages are worth the price of the book, and it's over 240+ pages long! Look....get it, read it, learn from it, make it yours. If you want to become a cartoonist, become a BETTER cartoonist, his book is 100% win

Llego en tiempo y forma. La calidad del material es excelente. Lo revise un poco y se ve que tiene bastante buena información, rico en contenido para aquellas personas que quieren aprender a dibujar personajes, formas y movimiento.

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