Set the Action! Creating Backgrounds for Compelling Storytelling in Animation, Comics, and Games

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-240-82053-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 777 g

Create the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Background, setting, environment.whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story. If you're in the habit of creating disembodied characters or adding backgrounds as an afterthought, Set the Action! will help you understand and utilize the importance of the setting in your narrative. Understand perspective, blocking, and color-and focus your narrative by establishing and designing your setting to interact with characters and story.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hernandez, Elvin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Grafikdesign, Kommunikationsdesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Act 1: Establishing Shots!

Section one: Gaining Perspective

Section two: Laying out the Action!

Act 2: Danger: Trespassing!

Section three: Minding Your Surroundings.

Section four: Familiar Grounds

Act 3: Rendezvous Point!

Section five: Meanwhile.

Section six: Scene of the Crime!

Über Autor(innen)

MFA in sequential art; Faculyy member, Media Arts and Animation Dept, Art Institute of Washington; Kaiser Studio Productions, sequential artist, freelance writer, and illustrator that has worked on magazines, games, and comics.