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The key word here is art: the dynamic 3D art that defines the world of computer games. This book teaches you everything you need to know about the planning, modeling, texturing, lighting, effects creation, and interface design that go into creating today's most advanced and stunning video games. You'll be learning from a master-veteran 3D artist and instructor Matthew Omernick-as you progress through the carefully chosen, software-agnostic tutorials that make up this beautiful, full-color volume. The end result will be skills you can apply to whatever 3D tool you choose and whatever wildly imaginative game you can think up. Through a unique combination of explanation, tutorials, and real world documentation-including discussions of the creative process entailed in some of today's most popular games augmented by screen captures and descriptions--you'll quickly come to understand the workflow, tools, and techniques required to be a successful game artist. In addition to learning the ropes of game art, you'll also find in depth tutorials and techniques that apply to all aspects of 3D graphics. Whether you are using Photoshop, 3ds max, Maya, or any other computer graphics software, you'll find a wealth of information that you can continue to come back to time and time again.
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The key word here is art: the dynamic 3D art that defines the world of computer games. This book teaches you everything you need to know about the planning, modeling, texturing, lighting, effects creation, and interface design that go into creating today's most advanced and stunning video games. You'll be learning from a master-veteran 3D artist and instructor Matthew Omernick-as you progress through the carefully chosen, software-agnostic tutorials that make up this beautiful, full-color volume. The end result will be skills you can apply to whatever 3D tool you choose and whatever wildly imaginative game you can think up. Through a unique combination of explanation, tutorials, and real world documentation-including discussions of the creative process entailed in some of today's most popular games augmented by screen captures and descriptions--you'll quickly come to understand the workflow, tools, and techniques required to be a successful game artist. In addition to learning the ropes of game art, you'll also find in depth tutorials and techniques that apply to all aspects of 3D graphics. Whether you are using Photoshop, 3ds max, Maya, or any other computer graphics software, you'll find a wealth of information that you can continue to come back to time and time again.
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Matthew takes the reader through all the nooks and crannies of creating art for games, from games interfaces, blocking out levels to alpha masks for textures and normal maps. The funny thing is, it is not an endless line of tutorials to show how its done, but at the end of it, you still feel, when you see the cutting edge art out there in games, 'yeah, I know how that is done.' All you need then is talent and perspiration.
The book illustrates every technique with in depth examples in both Maya and 3ds Max side by side. Another great feature. I know you hear those marketing cliches of "If you are only gonna buy one book on XX, then..." every day, but if you want games art and how its done, then THIS IS THAT BOOK.
1) For a book that is about game art, one would expect nice textures, nice objects and everything perfectly polished. However, some of the examples here use ugly objects, not-so-nice textures and badly designed scenes.
2) The info is a bit outdated in places - this is not author's fault, it's just the problem with fact that this book has been on the market for a few years already.
3) Many matters are covered, but all feels too basic overall. Especially when it gets into more advanced techniques you are left just with the basic info usually.
4) Some proposed techniques are simply BAD. The technique for seamless textures produces textures with visible artifacts (this is well seen on the example in book, other books/tutorial usually give such examples to show BAD seamless textures). I'd also like to see a good car model to be created the way author proposes...
I could recommend this book only to absolute amateurs in game art and I'd strongly suggest looking into some better resources with more up-to-date info and better examples after reading this.
I used this book to learn the methods and apply the techniques to my own projects at the same time, i personally got the most out of the normal map creation tutorials. Since buying this book i have gone on to other books and understood them i think better for first working though this book in the beginning.
Also alot of books have been how to model, texture etc in max or maya, but this book is targetted on how to create models textures etc for use in games.
A very good book and one that i would most recommend to someone that was a beginner out of my whole collection, its a great 1st stepping stone book, and one that i have actually gone back to again to refresh my memory on certain techniques etc.
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