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Ghertner: Layout and Composition for Animation
Enhance your technical layout and composition skills while maintaining the dramatic and cinematic impact of your story. Ed Ghertner, a top Disney layout artist, offers a structural approach to layout and composition, showcasing examples from Disney and The Simpsons.
You’ll learn how to develop character and background layouts as well as strengthen your composition styles with a creative toolset of trick shot examples and inspirational case studies.
This companion website includes further technique-based tools, finalized layout and composition examples, and tutorials to help you develop your artistic skill even further.
- Adapt key techniques, tips, and tricks of an experienced layout artists with thirty years of experience to your film, television and animation projects.
- Save time and money with workflow solutions and avoid common mistakes and problems with troubleshooting tips and tricks.
- Create professional character layouts and background layouts and strengthen composition styles with a creative toolset of trick shot examples, inspirational case studies and professional Disney examples and character layouts from The Simpsons.
- Further your artistic skill development with an interactive companion website that will include finalized layout and composition examples and tutorials.
Explore classic layout techniques, spot potential problems before they cost time and money, and adapt creative solutions for your own projects with this invaluable resource for beginner and intermediate artists.
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