Good Reading for Game Artists

destron · 2017-10-31T02:55:32

Here's a few articles and stuffs that might be useful to some of you. ::GamaSutra Articles:: "Improving the Combat 'Impact' of Action Games" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050428/sang_01.shtml Excerpt of the Book "Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060622/ahearn_01.shtml (Three Whole Pages! ) "Modular Game Art for Fast Level Design" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051202/mader_01.shtml "Illustrator-to-Maya: How to Design and Build the Perfect Level" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050607/steingraber_01.shtml "Tiled Terrain" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20011024/peasley_01.htm ::Level Design:: GamaSutra Level Design Resource Page - http://www.gamasutra.com/resource_guide/20010716/index.shtml Misc. Level Design Articles - help.hourences.com/ http://www.gamedesign.net/node/111?PHPSESSID=b9d5fc7f7f9e82a463cc3b84d8f51815 ::Other Stuff:: "Watch and Learn Videos - Digital Painting" (DivX Format) - http://www.carloscabrera.com.ar/tutorial.html "Designing Arcade Computer Graphics" (zipped PDFs) http://www.gamemaker.nl/feldman/full.zip Tsugumo's Article "So You Want to be a Pixel Artist?" - http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/ "Creating Good Game Art When You’re Not An Artist" http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1069.asp if there's something that i missed please notify me and i'll stick it up here. this will also be added to as i find more articles. NOTICE: As you can see in the succeeding posts (no offense to Fenryl and Shankar, of course, they were just trying to help ), please do not list link suggestions for "cut & paste" tutorials, since this thread is focused more on design than the "do this, then do that" kind of instructions. [2010-02-26: Fixed a broken link. -dbaumgart] [Edited by - dbaumgart on February 26, 2010 5:51:14 PM]

2D and 3D Art Visual Arts

Started by destron June 24, 2006 03:15 PM

17 comments, last by Tom Sloper 6 years, 5 months ago

destron

188

Author

June 27, 2006 03:44 PM

COOL! This thread got stickied!

anyway...
thanks for understanding, guys.
and for you, fenryl (as well as for understanding), thanks for those few design links. ima go put those up! the one from gamedesign.be looks especially cool...

[Edited by - destron on June 27, 2006 4:44:54 PM]

You're looking at a wanna-be right now :P

RPTD

359

February 02, 2011 12:28 AM

"Creating Good Game Art When You’re Not An Artist" is broken (404).

Life's like a Hydra... cut off one problem just to have two more popping out.
Leader and Coder: Project Epsylon | Drag[en]gine Game Engine

MartinH.

123

June 13, 2012 08:01 PM

blogs you might find interesting:

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.de/
http://muddycolors.blogspot.de/

books I highly recommend both for beginners and advanced:

Gregg Kreutz - Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What's Gone Wrong and How to Make It Right
James Gurney - Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
Ian Roberts - Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting

book I recommend for complete beginners (neither "talent" nor knowledge required, if you can write your name with a pencil you have all you need to work with this):

Betty Edwards - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
(there are at least 4 editions of the book, but I don't know which one is best, nor do I think it makes a big difference.)