Pictoplasma proudly presents its latest publication: a unique DVD/book set, exploring the very best of contemporary character design in animation, music visuals and motion graphics.

Following up on the best selling Pictoplasma book series, the DVD/book set focuses on cutting edge character design re-claiming the world of animation!

The 96 page, full colour, lovingly padded hard-cover book provides in-depth information on creators, studios and animators, presenting their latest and all time favourite work and grounding the animation on the DVD in the context of a wider character design practice.

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The Characters in Motion DVD is a compilation of over 90 films by 60 international studios, artists and designers, divided into 3 programmes: characters in narration, characters in rhythm and characters in motion.

The speciel selection menu additionally allows you to sort the 180+ minutes of animation by creator, character or style. This means you can browse the content according to criteria such as “all bunnies” or “all 3D”. Of course you can also navigate directly to each individual artist/studio where, in many cases, you’ll find additional animations and bonus tracks...

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《 Characters in Motion 》以卡通為主題結合優秀的平面設計念及實際範例，深入分析，帶您步入卡通平面設計的創作。

卡通造型商品是一個相當龐大的產業，週邊商品創造可觀的附加價值，平面設計看似簡單確深奧及抽象，文字、圖片或圖案...等視覺元素，都需創作精神，表達出一些設計理念；影像及版面加以適當編排，而後於設計圖上，進行美術設計方面的編排結合，進而表現於報紙、雜誌、書籍、海報、傳單..等紙質媒體，讓創作表達出您的理念，完整呈現於人們。

本書中介紹出在平面材質上，運用各種視覺元素的組合及編排，來表現出其設計理念及形象，結合許多設計師的經典商業設計範例，進而提升自己的創意設計能力。本書還附有設計範例的(+DVD-R)，可供參考！

．國際標準圖書編號：ISBN 3-981045-82-3

．出版社：

．本書以英文著述，大小尺寸為 19.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 公分，重約700公克，精裝。

．全書共有 96 頁，彩色精印

．2005 年出版，資料新穎詳實