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All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad...look glad...look mad...madder...no, even madder...okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever. FACIAL EXPRESSIONS includes more than 3,500 photographs of fifty faces, men and women of a variety of ages, shapes, sizes, and ethnicities, each demonstrating a wide range of emotions and shown from multiple angles. Who can use this book? Oh, only every artist on the planet, including art students, illustrators, fine artists, animators, story boarders, and comic-book artists. But wait, there's more! Additional photos focus on people wearing hats and couples kissing. while illustrations show skull anatomy and facial musculature. Still not enough? How about a one-of-a-kind series of photos of lips pronouncing the phonemes used in human speech? Animators will swoon--and artists will show a range of facial expressions from happy to happiest to ecstatic.
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Mark Simon founded and owns Orlando, Florida-based A&S Animation, Inc., a cel-animation house, and Animatics & Storyboards, Inc., one of the largest storyboard houses in the United States. He has designed sets and special effects on live-action feature films as well as produced award-winning shorts, commercials, and shows for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. The author of two previous books on animation.
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THE FOLLOWING LIST of emotions and ideas was used to inspire the models to exhibit a variety of facial expressions. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index
THE FOLLOWING LIST of emotions and ideas was used to inspire the models to exhibit a variety of facial expressions. Read the first page
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This is a useful but not essential reference book for the artist. There is a comprehensive range of models of various ages depicting an array of expressions though it is at times difficult to know which ones they're supposed to be! It would have been helpful if the author had listed the expression under each photo instead of having to cross reference a list at the front of the book. I think it's unfair, as a previous reviewer wrote, to label all the people as 'ugly'. They are, by and large, ordinary looking people you'd probably see in the street and many have faces full of character. Who would want to buy a book full of unnaturally beautiful or bland faces to work from? I checked out the Fairburn system too; it's out of print and if you do find a set of books it's very expensive (over £100). This is an inexpensive alternative - cheap and cheerful - but I can't help think that you'd be better of with a handily placed mirror to work from or, better still, a digital camera to take pictures of yourself for reference.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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As a budding comic book artist, I found this book very useful. The facial expressions are well photographed and the models (both attractive and not so much) have some great and unusual expressions which are definately useful. Also though, the hairstyles, weight and age of the models is agreat help. Most reference books use people ages only 20-30, but this book covers ages 20 to 83.
Also at the end of the book, there is a gallery of sequential expressions, kissing, hats & headgear and phonemes (for those not in the know, these are the shape your mouth makes when you say certain letters. Dead useful for animation).
Definately great reference for any artist, but it would have been better in colour, hence the 4 star rating.
Also at the end of the book, there is a gallery of sequential expressions, kissing, hats & headgear and phonemes (for those not in the know, these are the shape your mouth makes when you say certain letters. Dead useful for animation).
Definately great reference for any artist, but it would have been better in colour, hence the 4 star rating.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is certainly useful, however I imagine there to be several better books available. The trouble I found with this was, although there are several differing shots for emotions etc, the actual photography can be pretty bad. For example, the shots are sometimes out of focus, too small and the contrast on the images is not high enough to enable you to see clearly the detail. It would have worked better using less images and making them larger. Not that it matters too much but the illustrations are hideous! Used for general face shape in many positions/emotions, this is a half decent book and the phonemes at the back are very useful.
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Absolutely Brilliant
I am an artist and this book has been invaluable to me. Learning how to draw faces is one of the hardest things I have had to do so far and this book has defiantly helped. Read more
Published 5 months ago by ClaireMCarter
Unconvincing facial expressions
I bought this book a long time ago and got rid of it soon after so this short review is only from memory. Read more
Published 8 months ago by M. Worley
fairly useful
This book is filled with photos and provides a useful reference resource.
Many of the poses seem fairly artificial and basic. Read more
Many of the poses seem fairly artificial and basic. Read more
Published 12 months ago by DS
A useful tool for Illustrators and Animators alike
I bought this book a couple of years back and was pleasantly surprised at its content. It features a range of different actors sporting a range of expressions. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2009 by Mr. Paul Nicholson
Animator Must
This is a fantastic resource. I am an animation student and I am sure I will find this invaluable. It's clear, simple, but packed full of pictures (and very little text, it's not... Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2008 by Rach
what it says on the tin
this is indeed a book of facial expressions. However it is also a collection of some very ugly people, along with some truly terrible illustrations. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2006 by "holyllama"
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