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One Million Manga Characters: Over One Million Characters to Create and Color
The biggest collection of manga resource art ever seen. The CD contains 100 complete, ready drawn figures, plus 100 heads, 100 upper bodies, 100 lower bodies for 1,000,000 possible permutations. The book explains how to construct and color the figures and how to insert them into existing art. The book also acts as a visual catalog of the manga figures that are on the disk.
Yishan Li's One Million Manga Figures is a uniquely useful--and fun--resource for manga artists. A custom program on the accompanying CD (supported by both Mac and PC platforms) allows 100 heads, 100 upper bodies, and 100 sets of legs to be combined into 1,000,000 possibilities. All of the elements have been specially drawn, and the resulting combinations are by turns dynamic, sexy, futuristic, frightening, or all of those things at once.
The book acts as a visual catalog of the elements on the disc, and gives advice on exporting your newly created characters and using them in your own art. Perfect for manga novices and experts alike, One Million Manga Figures boasts an unprecedented array of high-quality manga art from a respected leader in the medium.
Yishan Li's One Million Manga Figures is a uniquely useful--and fun--resource for manga artists. A custom program on the accompanying CD (supported by both Mac and PC platforms) allows 100 heads, 100 upper bodies, and 100 sets of legs to be combined into 1,000,000 possibilities. All of the elements have been specially drawn, and the resulting combinations are by turns dynamic, sexy, futuristic, frightening, or all of those things at once.
The book acts as a visual catalog of the elements on the disc, and gives advice on exporting your newly created characters and using them in your own art. Perfect for manga novices and experts alike, One Million Manga Figures boasts an unprecedented array of high-quality manga art from a respected leader in the medium.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published October 19, 2010
About the author
Andrew James
69 books15 followersAndy worked in commercial television, live events and brand consultancy before buying a contract publishing agency in 2005, which he ran until its sale in 2010. Since then he has worked as a media and business consultant, notably to an importer of delightful wine.
He spent his teenage years employed at the Whitehall Theatre, where he studied for school exams in the lighting box watching such formative productions as What, No Pyjamas? He is a pretty good cook and mediocre musician, has curated a significant art exhibition, climbed Snowdon, ridden motorcycles at ridiculous speeds, had poetry published in Magma Poetry magazine and spent three years living in a church in North Yorkshire, before being reclaimed by London. A lifelong Crystal Palace FC supporter, he is also a devotee of South Africa’s Western Cape. He lives in Southwest London.
Blow Your Kiss Hello is his first novel and a second is underway.
He spent his teenage years employed at the Whitehall Theatre, where he studied for school exams in the lighting box watching such formative productions as What, No Pyjamas? He is a pretty good cook and mediocre musician, has curated a significant art exhibition, climbed Snowdon, ridden motorcycles at ridiculous speeds, had poetry published in Magma Poetry magazine and spent three years living in a church in North Yorkshire, before being reclaimed by London. A lifelong Crystal Palace FC supporter, he is also a devotee of South Africa’s Western Cape. He lives in Southwest London.
Blow Your Kiss Hello is his first novel and a second is underway.
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