
Visual Storytelling with Color and Light
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ISBN13: | 9780415720649 |
ISBN10: | 0415720648 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 264 pages |
Size: | 203x254 mm |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 234 Illustrations, color |
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Visual Storytelling with Color and Light offers behind-the-scenes secrets of gouache. With insider information on best gouache practices, Photoshop enhancements, and developing a signature style, this new guide has everything you need.
Though digital technology will continue to advance the way art is created, traditional mediums and techniques will remain fundamental to creating art. This holds true for gouache, (opaque watercolor}, acrylic, and many other mediums. Traditional mediums have had a hand in the creation of some of the most stunning backgrounds in animation, and a favorite of top illustrators for decades. Michael Humphries? Visual Storytelling provides step-by-step techniques that will help readers better understand color theory, composition and lighting, both traditionally and digitally. Visual Storytelling illustrates and analyzes numerous Disney visual development and animation background paintings that provide the reader a greater insight as to how these paintings were created, and how they were instrumental in the creation of the worlds most successful and beautiful animated movies. Through analysis and demonstrations, Visual Storytelling features the Disney studios traditional approach and Photoshop techniques that will give readers a well-rounded view of today?s digital and traditional practices.
Key Features
Dedication and Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction: A Little Background
Chapter 2: Professional Applications: Art Direction and Visual Development
Chapter 3: Elements of Design: Understanding Basic Principles
Chapter 4: Values First: Lighting the Scene
Chapter 5: Materials and Methods
Chapter 6: The Focal Point: Creating the Stage
Chapter 7: Atmosphere: Setting the Mood with Color and Light
Chapter 8: Creating Style: Designing "The Look"
Chapter 9: Taking it Outside: Plein
-air gouache demos
Chapter 10: Playing the Field: Creating Art for Prints and Licensing
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