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Why finish anything when you might not be good enough yet? There are myriad ways to avoid completing a project, and one of them is to become the eternal student.  Always learning, always improving, so that future hypothetical story keeps getting better and better... While somehow never making its way into reality. But on the other hand, it might help to know a bit about swimming before jumping overboard.  So where do you draw the line?  What do you absolutely need to know before getting your feet wet with a story? I can't speak for anyone else.  But when I started Dreamkeepers, I didn't know jack about story. I didn't know about inciting

Share |Archive    Disney Artist Brian Kesinger on Creating Story through Character Foreword by techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) It is with great pleasure we welcome BrianKesinger (https://www.deviantart.com/briankesinger) as a guest writer to the Today Page Editorial Team. Considering his authentic citizenship within the deviantART community, his thoughts and insights will be of great value to all aspiring artists, illustrators, writers and others involved in any creative endeavor. For over 18 years, Brian has worked for Walt Disney Studios on films like Big Hero 6, Winnie the Pooh, Tarzan, Tangled, Wreck It Ralph and Bolt. Brian is author and illustrator of his own octovictorian creation, the wild

Arvalis-2012 by arvalis (https://www.deviantart.com/arvalis) What does 'Character Design' mean? The character design is the process  which comes after the characterisation and consists in defining the character  through his/her physical appearance. We need to consider a character as a little fictional creature, human or not, that aims to please its creator and the public as well. While the basic characterization of this fictional creature (his tastes, his fears, his behaviors) may take a little mental effort, as it is a sort of list of emotions, facts and feelings that come and go in the life of a character, the process of visual realization of this creature may not be