Scene Design: Rendering and Media - Softcover

Ma, Wenhai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585103934 ISBN 13: 9781585103935

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2012

Synopsis

Scene Design: Rendering and Media is intended to help students or practitioners improve their skills at making finished renderings of scene designs for theater. The book demonstrates the process of creating the renderings through real world methods and techniques. Chapters are dedicated to a detailed discussion of various tools including drawing, light and shadow, color mixing, painting, figures, and other media, and the book is rife with colorful and inspirational examples.

About this title

About the Authors

Wenhai Ma is the head of the Theatre Production Design Program at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. Formerly, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as Senior Designer & Master Teacher and Chair of the Scene Design Program. He has designed over one hundred productions in the USA and Asia and has also illustrated numerous picture books.

Wenhai Ma is the head of the Theatre Production Design Program at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. Formerly, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as Senior Designer & Master Teacher and Chair of the Scene Design Program. He has designed over one hundred productions in the USA and Asia and has also illustrated numerous picture books.

From the Back Cover

“This book is designed to help students and anyone else interested in improving their skill at making finished renderings of scene designs for theater. . . . [I] wish this book had existed when I was a student. . . . I know of no other theater design book that is comparable or is as complete in its handling of the subject.”
—Steve Arnold

Wenhai Ma is the head of the Theatre Production Design Program at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. Formerly, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as Senior Designer & Master Teacher and Chair of the Scene Design Program. He has designed over one hundred productions in the USA and Asia and has also illustrated numerous picture books.

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This book is designed to help students and anyone else interested in improving their skill at making finished renderings of scene designs for theater. . . . [I] wish this book had existed when I was a student. . . . I know of no other theater design book that is comparable or is as complete in its handling of the subject.
Steve Arnold

Wenhai Ma is the head of the Theatre Production Design Program at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. Formerly, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as Senior Designer & Master Teacher and Chair of the Scene Design Program. He has designed over one hundred productions in the USA and Asia and has also illustrated numerous picture books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585103934
• ISBN 13: 9781585103935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288