Designing Movie Creatures and Characters: Behind the scenes with the movie masters - Softcover

Rickitt, Richard

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9780240808468: Designing Movie Creatures and Characters: Behind the scenes with the movie masters

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ISBN 10: 0240808460 ISBN 13: 9780240808468

Publisher: Focal Press, 2006

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Behind the scenes on landmark movies such as King Kong; the Star Wars trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean, X-Men, Predator, and Alien series; Hellboy; and The Chronicles of Narnia, are a host of visionary and often obsessive artists, designers, and technicians whose passion is the movies, and whose role is to create nothing less than cinematic icons. This unique book interviews and reveals the character designers, painters, illustrators, sculptors, and animatronic engineers who transform a sketch or a few words from a script into convincing characters with a life and personality of their own.

Designing Movie Creatures and Characters reveals the inside story of how creatures of the imagination are brought to life onscreen - told by the makers themselves, and illustrated with exclusive, behind-the scenes shots from hundreds of movies.

Learn what inspires and motivates these skilled artists; how Weta Workshop began; how Walt Conti builds swimming robot sharks and whales; how Patrick Tatopoulos creates his stunning designs; how molds, creature suits, eye mechanisms, and masks are constructed - and how dedicated artists bring characters to life in front of the camera, using suits, makeup, animatronics, puppets, masks, and CGI.

Whether you are a designer, animator or an aspiring makeup artist, this book will entertain, challenge, inspire, and inform.

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Designing Movie Creatures and Characters The first book to examine characters and creatures in the movies from a design standpoint, this volume looks at how a variety of technologies and performance techniques can be used to bring them to life. Aspiring makeup artists, moviemakers, designers, animators, and game designers, as well as film, visual effects, and animation students, will learn how to make their creations believable and how t Full description

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Behind the scenes on landmark movies such as King Kong; Star
Wars; Pirates of the Caribbean; X-Men; Predator; Alien; Hellboy; and The
Chronicles of Narnia, are a host of visionary and often obsessive artists,
designers, and technicians whose passion is the movies, and whose role is
to create nothing less than cinematic icons. This unique book interviews
the character designers, painters, illustrators, sculptors, and animatronic
engineers who transform a sketch or a few words from a script into
convincing characters with a life and personality of their own. Designing
Movie Creatures and Characters reveals the inside story of how creatures of
the imagination are brought to life onscreen - told by the makers
themselves, and illustrated with exclusive, behind-the-scenes shots from
hundreds of movies. Learn what inspires and motivates these skilled
artists; how Weta Workshop began; how Walt Conti builds swimming robot
sharks and whales; how Patrick Tatopoulos creates his stunning designs; how
molds, creature suits, eye mechanisms, and masks are constructed - and how
dedicated artists bring characters to ilfe in front of the camera, using
suits, makeup, animatronics, puppets, masks, and CGI. Whether you are a
designer, an aspiring makeup artist, or simply a fan of the movies, this
book will entertain, challenge, inspire, and inform.

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