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Creating Characters with Personality

Creating Characters with Personality

About the Book

From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob SquarePants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken. Designing Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context within a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize the impact of pose and expression. Practical exercises help readers put everything together to make their new characters sparkle. Lessons from the author, who designed the dragon Mushu (voiced by Eddie Murphy) in Disney's Mulan—plus big-name experts in film, TV, video games, and graphic novels—make a complex subject accessible to every artist.
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Tom Bancroft
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About the Author

Glen Keane
A 38-year veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Glen Keane is most noted for creating and animating such legendary Disney characters as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, and Tarzan. He also served as supervising animator and executive producer on Tangled. For his contribution to the field of animation, he has received the National Cartoonist Society Animation Award, the Windsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement in Animation, and the Tex Avery Award, and was a Disney Legend Award honoree in 2013.

In 2012, he launched Glen Keane Productions and won an Academy Award alongside Kobe Bryant for the animated short “Dear Basketball.”
Throughout his fifty-year career, he has continued to write and illustrate his Adam Raccoon children’s book series. 

He and his wife, Linda, now live in Paris along with their family. More by Glen Keane
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