Salon.com recently featured an interview with Shannon Tindle , and Emmy-award winning character designer who worked on " Coraline " along with numerous Dreamworks projects. The subject? Why are some animated character designs appealing and unforgettable, while others range from unremarkable to hideous. Shannon Tindle's blog is wonderful - you should be following it, methinks! Tindle observes: "For me, it should be something that's believable but not necessarily realistic. Those are two things that people interchange quite a bit on productions -- and I've been involved in a lot of them. From my point of view, it's been proven that realism is not really appealing to an audience. Two good examples of successful design that audiences embraced -- "Kung Fu Panda" and "Up" -- are films that certainly were not realistic but had believable characters. A lot of people are actually afraid of stylizing characters in animated films, period. They...
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