If you are an aspiring artist thinking about a career in video games, animation, or professional illustration, this book will become your trainer for creating vivid and original characters. Six successful artists, using the example of their works, will show all the key aspects of character development - from ideas and sketches of gestures and poses to implementation in various stylistic manners.

Introductory articles to the book were written by three Russian super-professionals of the CG industry: illustrator Anna Kattish, concept artist, founder of Smirnov School Ivan Smirnov and character designer for animation Tata Che.

The book is applicable to both digital and traditional graphics and will help you create characters for video games, comics, animation or commercial illustration .