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Character Design Quarterly issue 01 (Downloadable Edition)
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Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is an exciting magazine for illustrators, artists, animators and character art enthusiasts. Issue 01 features tutorials from incredible artists Max Grecke, Brett Bean, Simone Grünewald, and Shaun Bryant, plus advice from CreatureBox who created this issue’s amazing cover art. Disney character designer Amanda Jolly shares her advice for career success and the multi-award-winning animation studio Blue Zoo give an inside view of their dynamic studio. Lois van Baarle (Loish), Avner Geller, and Randy Bishop also share top tips for refining character designs, and much more!
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Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is an exciting magazine for illustrators, artists, animators and character art enthusiasts. Releasing four times a year, this unique, engaging magazine offers inspirational and educational articles, tutorials and interviews from top industry professionals specifically geared to helping artists of all skill levels hone their character designs and improve their workflow.
Issue 01 features tutorials from incredible artists Max Grecke, Brett Bean, Simone Grünewald, and Shaun Bryant, plus advice from CreatureBox who created this issue’s amazing cover art. Disney character designer Amanda Jolly shares her advice for career success and the multi-award-winning animation studio Blue Zoo give an inside view of their dynamic studio. Lois van Baarle (Loish), Avner Geller, and Randy Bishop also share top tips for refining character designs, and much more!
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Format 105 pages, downloadable PDF
Size 229MB
Print edition ISBN: 978-1-909414-55-6
Subjects covered: Character design
Part of series: Character Design Quarterly Magazine
Contents and Contributors
Behind the cover art: CreatureBox
Designing Monomyth by Randy Bishop
Meet the artist: Amanda Jolly
Gerald the small giant by Max Grecke
Exaggerating emotions by Lois van Baarle, a.k.a. Loish
Unicorn Slayer by Avner Geller
Capturing a character’s essence by Simone Grünewald
Gallery
Pirate characters by Tristan Poulain
The octopus at Rock Bottom farm by Brett Bean
Studio Profile: Blue Zoo
Happy whimsical monster by Shaun Bryant
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About the Creator
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Brett Bean is the author and illustrator of the series Zoo Patrol Squad with Penguin Workshop, and the illustrator on I Hate Fairyland (Image Comics), Battle Bugs (Scholastic), and the Beasts of Olympus (WORKSHOP) book series. He works in film, TV, video games, and board games with Disney, Riot Games, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Marvel, Ravensburger, and more. Brett has taught character design and concept art at Gnomon School of Visual FX, LAAFA, CGMA, and various workshops around the world. He loves board games, comics, original art, basketball, Tom Waits, and travelling.
Simone Grünewald, also known as “Schmoe,” is a passionate illustrator and well-known art director, character designer, 2D animator, and key art storyboarder working in the games industry. She has a desire to create emotive designs that document her life, including the experiences of motherhood, in addition to her commercial work. Having followed the creative path all of her life, Simone has a wealth of knowledge in both traditional and digital art and shares her insights with her global audience via increasingly popular social media accounts. Simone is also the author of Sketch Every Day (3dtotal Publishing)
Lois van Baarle, best known as Loish, is an internationally renowned digital artist and character designer based in the Netherlands. With an enchanting signature style and ability to produce characters with depth and narrative, her talents have been acknowledged by big-name clients worldwide, including LEGO, Guerrilla Games, Amazon, EA, and Coca-Cola. After the release of her first two art books, Loish discovered her passion for sharing and teaching to demystify the digital art process, and an appreciation of her content is reflected in her ever-growing loyal fanbase of over two million.