ABSTRACT
After writing the story (script), perhaps the most important task is designing and creating the story's physical characters. Of course, this will most likely only apply to a story that needs physical alteration of the actors who will be playing characters in the story. The way people move and the way they look is wholly dependent on their anatomy—their bone structure, how and where muscles attach, how big or small they are, what their skin looks and feels like, how and where hair grows. Everything about them right down to the dirt under their fingernails should be studied and understood. Oscar winner Matthew Mungle has offered the magnificent Nosferatu step-by-step tutorial with great photos of the process, from design rendering to finished application. The tools people have at their disposal to aid them in designing characters have vastly improved over the years. But human anatomy is still human anatomy. The computer as a design aid is just that—an aid.
