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Action Anatomy: For Gamers, Animators, and Digital Artists

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I bought this book sight unseen hoping that it would provide some nice pictures of action poses that I could use in game art. But I am happy to say that this book proved to be much much more.

The first half of the book breaks down the human body, piece by piece, with lots of pictures and discussion in a friendly non-clinical way. Then the book goes into things like proportions and different body shapes depending on age, fitness, gender etc,. Then it goes into the "action" poses. There are stop-motion pictures of walking, running, sitting, standing, walking up and down stairs, jumping, throwing, and others.

This book is a really tremendous all-around reference for drawing/modelling/animating the human body.

i got this book for my boyfriend who is going into video game design because i think it is very important to understand how the human body looks and works if you are going to be drawing people. the book provides great basic knowledge on how to create people and includes chapters on movement, facial expressions, different body parts, etc. while this book focuses mainly on women (it seems that nearly all books of this type do), male design is also appropriately discussed. great pictures and examples as well as explanation; not step-by-step, but a general how-to. i would definetely reccomend this book if you know someone who is starting out in a design/graphic field.

The product was fine, the waiting for it was difficult I Purchased on 03/17/2009, it was to arrive 04/05/2009 and it arrived 04/08/2009. Way too long. Thanks