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3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop 28 reviews
Luke Ahearn
Focal Press, 2006
Excellent. Really!
+ good textures
+ For a beginner, I'm very impressed.
+ get it cheap if you want it
+ Useful introductory overview
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Timing for Animation16 reviews
Harold Whitaker, John Halas
Focal Press, 2002
You will learn quickly with this no-frills book
+ Very useful book
+ I learned so much from this book.
+ Great book!
+ A Must
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Game Modeling Using Low Polygon Techniques (Charles River Media Graphics) 8 reviews
Chad Walker, Eric Walker
Charles River Media, 2001
If your a beginner ...go ahead.
+ If your a beginner ...go ahead.
The book will show you enough to know how to make a model and UV map the thing and to be honest when your new and want to get into modding games or somthing thats all you care about however in a way I agree with the ones that were unhappy with this book in regards to the fact that you do the same ...
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Creating the Art of the Game (New Riders Games)18 reviews
Matthew Omernick
New Riders Games, 2004
Very Helpful
+ W-O-W!
+ Pretty good general information book
+ Creating the Art of the Game
+ Fills In The Gaps
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Polygonal Modeling: Basic and Advanced Techniques (Worldwide Game and Graphics Library) 10 reviews
Mario Russo
Wordware Publishing, Inc., 2005
Nice Foundation!
+ Good reference book
+ Excellent beginner's or mid-level reference
I just encountered this book about a year into my coursework and I wonder why it hasn't appeared any sooner. It has a great deal of information that would have been helpful to know up front, such as detailed explanations about WHY things work the way they do, such as typical subdivision (a.k.a. ...
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Digital Texturing and Painting ([digital])17 reviews
Owen Demers
New Riders Press, 2001
the best
+ What More CG Books Need to Be
+ Excelent
+ This book is Wonderful A+ + + recommended
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Inspired 3D Short Film Production (Inspired) 8 reviews
Jeremy Cantor, Pepe Valencia
Course Technology PTR, 2004
Totally fantastic!
+ Best book to illustrate animated film-making
+ Great overview of the whole process
+ Great for the true beginner
+ 3D Short Film Production is Fantastic
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Cartoon Animation (The Collector's Series)27 reviews
Preston Blair
Walter Foster, 1994
All animators should have this book!
+ I Love Animation
+ Highly recommended
+ Really good books for animation student
+ I read it in one go.
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The Human Figure in Motion9 reviews
Eadweard Muybridge
Dover Publications, 1955
Muybridge's landmark photographic studies of human motion
+ Classic artist resource REQUIRED for any who draws people
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was the most significant contributor to the early study of human and animal locomotion, whose extensive studies were acknowledged by such pioneers of motion pictures as the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison. If you have ever seen slow-motion photography of a horse ...
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Modeling a Character in 3DS Max, 2nd Edition (Wordware Game Developer's Library)32 reviews
Paul Steed
Wordware Publishing, Inc., 2005
Awesome book teaching real use not technical crap
+ Nuts to Bolts....
I haven't read the second edition yet but the first edition was KICK ASS. Paul Steed takes you through modeling a charater and teaches you all kinds of tricks that hours of reading technical books never taught me. Basically the diference with this book is that it was written by an artist and not ...
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Making a Game Demo: From Concept to Demo Gold (Wordware Game Developer's Library) 2 reviews
Chad Walker
Wordware Publishing, Inc., 2005
not just about strict programming issues
The book might be invaluable to you, if you are a game programmer looking for advice on how to get funding for a full production of your ideas. It describes many aspects that need to be addressed in making an impressive and professional demo ["gold" version].
The actual programming discussion in ...
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Edgeloop Character Modeling For 3D Professionals Only10 reviews
Kelly L. Murdock, Eric Allen
Wiley, 2006
A must have
+ Not a bad book!
Even after Trinity Animation "Advanced Maya. Character modeling" 16 hours video tutor and Jason Osipa's "Stop Staring/ Facial Modeling nad Animation done right" I still can say "A must have".
Yeah, sometimes author does not explains in detail some important thing. Yes, there are some problems with ...
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Animals in Motion2 reviews
Eadweard Muybridge
Dover Publications, 1957
Indispensible Reference for Artists
+ Its Not Just For Animators
Muybridges momumental work photographing animals in all different gates and poses and tests of ability. Using sometimes up to 100 cameras for a single set up to gain what is now the definitive guide for animators in understanding the motion of animals. It all started with a $25,000 bet: Eadweard ...
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Game Character Design Complete: Using 3ds Max 8 and Adobe Photoshop CS2 5 reviews
David Franson, Eric Thomas
Course Technology PTR, 2006
Basic 3D character design book
This book does what it says it does: It explains you how to model a character, how to texture it and how to animate it using the character studio plugin. I would have left the word "Complete" from the title. There are other aspects of character design for example the use of normal maps that aren't ...
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Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right39 reviews
Jason Osipa
Sybex, 2003
Buy 2.
+ Stop Staring -- Good Buy!!
+ An indispensable resource
I am a 3d professional artist for a long time, I have to say I have read hundreds of books, watched hours of training videos, read pages of internet tutorials anything related to 3d animation. No other training material comes even close to things I have learned reading this book. It is a treasure ...
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Digital Lighting and Rendering (2nd Edition) ([digital])34 reviews
Jeremy Birn
New Riders Press, 2006
Clear and Thoughtful
+ LOVE THIS BOOK
+ Digital-Lighting & Rendering- Jeremy Birn
+ buen libro sobre tecnicas de iluminacion
+ Oustanding book
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3ds Max: Character Modeling (DVD-ROM)9 reviews
Jim Lammers, Kenny Cooper
Trinity Animation, Inc., 2004
excellent! like taking a class on character modelling
+ Simply incredible
+ Amazing comprehnesive tutorial!!!!!!!
+ Excellent 3ds Max: Character Modeling DVD
+ 3DS MAX: Character Modeling is awesome!
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The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation61 reviews
Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas
Disney Editions, 1995
Great Book For Animators!
+ excelent book
+ Very inspirational...
+ All I was looking for about the art of animation
+ The love produces animation! That book exhibition that!
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2D Artwork and 3D Modeling for Game Artists (Premier Press Game Development (Software))14 reviews
David Franson
Course Technology PTR, 2002
Very cool, very detailed
+ Lots of info, requires lots of software though
+ liked it a lot
This book covers everything, from character creation, bones rigging, texturing of the character (and hundreds of general textures using Photoshop). The book uses 3DS Max 7 and Photoshop 7, expensive, but I've found that game companies use those avidly (or Maya, but not as much). Price is high for ...
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Animating Real-Time Game Characters (Game Development Series)6 reviews
Paul Steed
Charles River Media, 2002
Try real hard to be like Paul
+ animation weapon
+ Get way ahead of people learning to be animators with this!!
Game programming is a very, very fun and interesting job that anyone could imagine, especially for boys... Sadly, most of the people just know how to play games, beg their parents to buy them X-Box, PS2, Intendo when they are kids... but very few of them (if not none!) will dedicate their hard ...
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