The first printing of the revised second edition with 4 additional pages of instruction (a lesson on pushing designs to their "Breaking Point").

From the publisher:

In this book, animator and character designer Sandro Cleuzo takes us behind the scenes of his wonderful work.

He will reveal how to create great-looking characters and show you the rules that he applies to animate them.

Through these pages, Sandro shares steps and secrets to those who wish to learn this beautiful art form and shows how to create and give life to new characters, the future stars of new adventures.

About the artist:

Sandro Cleuzo, animator and character designer with extensive experience in the Animation Industry, has worked on major productions like "Anastasia" by Don Bluth, "Fantasia 2000", "The Emperor's New Groove", 'Tarzan", "Home on the Range", "The Princess and the Frog" for Disney, "Kung Fu Panda - The Secrets of the Furious Five", "How to Train Your Dragon -The Legend of the Boneknapper" and "Kung Fu Panda - The Secret of the Scroll" for Dreamworks. He helped designing characters for the CG features "The Angry Birds" and "The Angry Birds 2" features, and for Laika he worked on "Kubo and the 2 Strings" and "Missing Link" as character designer and hand drawn animator. He has also worked as an animator on Disney's "Mary Poppins Returns", for which he won an Annie Award for best animation and Netflix's Klaus.

His most recent works were Character Designer and animator on "SCOOB" and "Space Jam 2" for Warner Bros, "Entergalactic" and "Nimona" as a hand drawn animator, "Perlimps" and "Fixed" as an animator and Paramount's "Under the Boardwalk" as a character designer.

This book was produced by the Nemo Academy, an animation school in Florence, Italy.