Bryan "Kaiser" Tillman was born into a military family in 1980. He was able to travel the world at a young age due to his father being in the military. Bryan lived most of his young life in Germany with his family. There he learned German and how much German blood flowed through his veins. Once Bryan was 18 he left for the United States in order to pursue a degree in Sequential Art at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He went on to graduate both undergrad and grad school with honors. After graduating Bryan worked as a concept designer for an online video game company and did storyboards for an ad agency. Shortly after that Bryan moved to Alexandria Virginia, where he started teaching at the Art Institute of Washington. After two years of being a full time professor for animation and game art, Bryan became academic director for animation, game art, visual effects and motion graphics and visual game programming. He is currently an Assistant Professor for Graphic Design at Norfolk State University. In addition Bryan also owns and operates a production studio named Kaiser Studio Productions that creates comics, toys and table top games.

Chapter 1 What Makes for Good Character Design?

Chapter 2 Why Archetypes Are Important

Chapter 3 The Most Important Part of Character Design

Chapter 4 Can You Still Be Original Anymore?

Chapter 5 Shapes and Silhouettes

Chapter 6 Reference, Reference, and Reference--Oh My!

Chapter 7 Aesthetics--Just What You've Been Waiting For

Chapter 8 The WOW Factor.