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# Character Mentor: Learn by Example to Use Expressions Poses and Staging to ing Your Character

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Review: Very Intriguing. - The art of staging is rather complex. Most people don't give a lot of thought to staging a picture. In general, a lot of drawings are kinda haphazardly thrown together with the background just being tacked on as an after thought. I'm by no means a great artist but this has always bugged me in a lot of the pictures I've studied. This book is brilliant in explaining how to show personality through little details, how to show contextual clues and how to direct the viewers eyes. Previously Mr. Bancroft has praised his former mentors in his other book. I have to say, he really paid attention and I'm glad he decided to share what he learned from the masters with the rest of us. If you ever wonder what type of background or area to drop your characters in, this book will help you put together plenty of real deliberation and planning that can be used both now and for years to come. The tutorials and the examples from guest artist and animators are phenomenal.
Review: A fantastic book for the aspiring animator or cartoonist - I was first exposed to Tom Bancroft when I took his class on Skillshare.com, and I was just as impressed with this book as I was with his expertise, knowledge and teaching in his video. This was after a considerable amount of research on the art of character design and illustration (primarily for comic books), so I have a lot to compare against. Most cartooning and animation professionals simply do not share immediately applicable insights, and when they do it's through expensive DVDs that are suspect in quality. If you think some of the material is "light" you'll be surprised to learn that he is actually teaching what all good animators already know and practice, and have learned in school. I took another course on Lynda.com given by another popular animator, and many of the concepts he taught were the same as what you'll find in Character Mentor. This really is a great book, but if you're an absolute beginner, and have very little artistic background, then you may want to try something like "Cartooning: Character Design (HT291) (How to Draw & Paint)" at http://amzn.to/1Qw71Vs. It approaches character design at a higher level, but still offers advice on body types, pose, and facial expressions. If you're not yet ready to spend the money then I suggest starting with the very approachable videos of Mark Crilley on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley. They aren't tutorials per se, but he offers a fair amount of insight into how he designs his characters as an artist. He also has a book called "Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko" at http://amzn.to/1Mk1NnU that gets ridiculously good praise, although I've not read it myself. All things considered if you're serious about character design then I would consider this a must have for your library.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B007YXQ7OE |
| Best Sellers Rank | #182 in Animation Graphic Design (Books) #917 in Digital Video Production (Books) #22,522 in Computer Programming (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (226) |
| ISBN-10  | 0240820711 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0240820712 |
| Language  | English |
| Publication date  | January 1, 2000 |
| Publisher  | Focal Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Intriguing.
*by M***N on July 19, 2012*

The art of staging is rather complex. Most people don't give a lot of thought to staging a picture. In general, a lot of drawings are kinda haphazardly thrown together with the background just being tacked on as an after thought. I'm by no means a great artist but this has always bugged me in a lot of the pictures I've studied. This book is brilliant in explaining how to show personality through little details, how to show contextual clues and how to direct the viewers eyes. Previously Mr. Bancroft has praised his former mentors in his other book. I have to say, he really paid attention and I'm glad he decided to share what he learned from the masters with the rest of us. If you ever wonder what type of background or area to drop your characters in, this book will help you put together plenty of real deliberation and planning that can be used both now and for years to come. The tutorials and the examples from guest artist and animators are phenomenal.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fantastic book for the aspiring animator or cartoonist
*by A***R on December 17, 2015*

I was first exposed to Tom Bancroft when I took his class on Skillshare.com, and I was just as impressed with this book as I was with his expertise, knowledge and teaching in his video. This was after a considerable amount of research on the art of character design and illustration (primarily for comic books), so I have a lot to compare against. Most cartooning and animation professionals simply do not share immediately applicable insights, and when they do it's through expensive DVDs that are suspect in quality. If you think some of the material is "light" you'll be surprised to learn that he is actually teaching what all good animators already know and practice, and have learned in school. I took another course on Lynda.com given by another popular animator, and many of the concepts he taught were the same as what you'll find in Character Mentor. This really is a great book, but if you're an absolute beginner, and have very little artistic background, then you may want to try something like "Cartooning: Character Design (HT291) (How to Draw & Paint)" at http://amzn.to/1Qw71Vs. It approaches character design at a higher level, but still offers advice on body types, pose, and facial expressions. If you're not yet ready to spend the money then I suggest starting with the very approachable videos of Mark Crilley on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley. They aren't tutorials per se, but he offers a fair amount of insight into how he designs his characters as an artist. He also has a book called "Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko" at http://amzn.to/1Mk1NnU that gets ridiculously good praise, although I've not read it myself. All things considered if you're serious about character design then I would consider this a must have for your library.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read book for character designing
*by C***R on April 18, 2015*

This is an absolute must for anyone into animation / illustration. This book is an incredible inspiration to not settle for "good enough" when designing, but to really push the design. And even though its focus is on characters, it actually goes further than that by looking at staging and composition of a scene. One of the nice touches is that the author presents some very high caliber student work, and then shows how to turn that work into something truly excellent by adding more life to it, and describing the reasons for the changes. Each change is fairly subtle but it adds up very quickly. I have about 12-15 books on animation and this has now become the most inspiring, and the one that has had the biggest and most immediately implemented change in my drawings. This book is best suited for an advanced beginner (if there is such a thing!) or intermediate animator/illustrator. Fantastic.

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