Complete Guide to Anime Techniques

by Li, Chi Hang

• ISBN13: 9780764133800
• ISBN10: 0764133802
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc

Summary

Art students learn to reproduce the distinctive style and vibrant colors that characterize Japanese movie animation—or anime. The author explains every stage in the creative process, from storyboarding to preparing and distributing the finished movie or video. Step-by-step tutorials demonstrate fundamental skills, such as hand-painting characters and backgrounds on separate cel layers, working with 3D graphics, and using digital pen-and-tone techniques. Separate chapters focus on stylistic techniques, animation basics such as characters’ movements and lip synching, application of styles that comprise fundamentals of animated visual grammar, and other vital topics for successful movie animation. This very useful manual features more than 400 instructive color illustrations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
All about anime	8	(4)
Anime style	12	(14)
Anime essentials	14	(4)
Cel shading	18	(2)
Anime variations	20	(2)
Classic vs. modern	22	(2)
Stylized backgrounds	24	(2)
Story and character design	26	(20)
Planning your animation	28	(2)
Storytelling	30	(4)
Storyboards	34	(4)
Scriptwriting	38	(2)
Character design	40	(6)
Essential animation skills	46	(36)
Tools and materials	48	(2)
Essential skills	50	(6)
Keyframes	56	(4)
Onion skinning	60	(2)
Basic movements	62	(6)
The walk cycle	68	(4)
Facial animation	72	(4)
Lighting effects	76	(2)
Sound and sound effects	78	(2)
Lip synch	80	(2)
Anime-specific skills	82	(20)
Cel-shading techniques	84	(2)
Rendering backgrounds	86	(2)
Still images	88	(2)
Speed lines	90	(2)
Visual grammar	92	(4)
Anime eyes	96	(4)
Super-deformed	100	(2)
Producing anime	102	(18)
Production options	104	(2)
Digital basics	106	(2)
Dedicated packages	108	(2)
Vectors	110	(2)
3D software	112	(2)
Special effects	114	(2)
Post-production	116	(4)
End Notes
Further reading	120	(2)
Glossary	122	(4)
Index	126	(2)
Credits	128