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 enlarge | Author: Mark Simon
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 15566
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0823016714
Dewey Decimal Number: 704.942
EAN: 9780823016716
ASIN: 0823016714
Publication Date: June 1, 2005
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 A Must For Animators and Artists August 16, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
In my 19 years as a professional animator I've never seen a book of facial expression references as extensive and well thought out as Mark Simon's book. I was pleased to see that the expressions portion of the book was organized by character types rather than expressions because the animation thought process works in the same order. The type of character needs to be established first before storyboarding and animation can begin. Gender and Age are typically a great place to start. Another great thing about this book is the uniqueness and diversity of artwork from various artists. It clearly shows how a human facial expression can be applied to a wide range of character types - from animals to mythological creatures.
Excellent Resource August 15, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a must buy for any artist. The variety of expressions and models is awesome and I particularly like the photos taken at low and high angles. I also like the way the book is organized. It's perfect to have expressions grouped by person because when I'm drawing a character I need to see how that character's expressions look. As fascinating as the photos are of different people, the artwork inspired be each model is so creative! The galleries in the back of the book of a kissing couple, phonemes, and models wearing hats are an invaluable resource.
 Deficient and not as good as some other books on the subject July 20, 2005
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Every artist should have a facial expression book on the shelf--but maybe not this one. The most baffling deficiency of this book--and it's a biggie--is that the faces are organized by age, not emotion!! Maybe someone can convince me that a 33-year-old face differs from a 34-year-old face in displaying emotion and that should be the basis of organization in this kind of reference book. So each age-identified model gets a gallery of random mug shots which are unlabeled to emotion. Apparently the author "inspired" each model with a laundry list of emotions and they twisted their faces this-way-and-that before the camera and you can make of the results what you will. So if you need a quick facial reference for "thinking" or "rage," for example, you have to thumb through countless pages until YOU believe you've spotted the correct visage. The author then throws in a "kissing gallery" out of the blue as the only pages on two-person interaction. (Why not a "fist-fight gallery" instead?) What maybe salvages this haphazard work is the phonemes gallery of mouth shapes from speech sounds if you're into animation. For better books on this subject, I recommended, first off, the great Stephen Roger Peck's Atlas Of Facial Expressions. Peck not only organizes his book by emotion, he elaborates on the elements that go into each facial expression. Also worthwhile is Illustrator's Reference Manual Hands & Faces which presents the material in color and from different perspectives. And you can never go wrong with Jack Hamm who covers the subject in his typically succint and understandable way in Cartooning The Head And Figure.
All the facial reference you need in one book May 6, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Capturing a person's expression is often the key to a successful illustration. Sometimes you have to translate your own features from a reflection and apply them to the face you're drawing. This book alleviates a lot of guesswork and opens up scores of options with the variety of kinds of faces included, the range of distrortion the models allow, and the multitude of angles from which we see the faces. What's great about the collection is it isn't just faces, it's the other details that can sometimes present challenges, from hairstyles to types of shirts and collars, to a specific section devoted to various hats and headgear. All these seemingly obvious things are necessary to include at one time or another, and can present challenges to an artist. Just a sliver of the possible interpretations are included in the book as well, as several artists have contributed sketches based on the actual photos you see. Caricatures, animal characters, sculptures, it goes on and on.
I see this as one of the few staple books for any artist to keep on their shelf, that covers a broad ground within a single volume.
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