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Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

By: Chris Solarski

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Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

By: Chris Solarski

This book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming.” — John Romero, co-founder of id Software and CEO of Loot Drop, Inc. "Solarski’s methodology here is to show us the artistic techniques that every artist should know, and then he transposes them to the realm of video games to show how they should be used to create a far more artful gaming experience ... if I were an artist planning to do video game work, I’d have a copy of this on my shelf." — Marc Mason, Comics Waiting Room Video games are not a revolution in art history, but an evolution. Whether the medium is paper or canvas—or a computer screen—the artist’s challenge is to make something without depth seem like a window into a living, breathing world. Video game art is no different. Drawing Basics and Video Game Art is first to examine the connections between classical art and video games, enabling developers to create more expressive and varied emotional experiences in games. Artist game designer Chris Solarski gives readers a comprehensive introduction to basic and advanced drawing and design skills—light, value, color, anatomy, concept development—as well as detailed instruction for using these methods to design complex characters, worlds, and gameplay experiences. Artwork by the likes of Michelangelo, Titian, and Rubens are studied alongside AAA games like BioShock, Journey, the Mario series, and Portal 2, to demonstrate perpetual theories of depth, composition, movement, artistic anatomy, and expression. Although Drawing Basics and Video Game Art is primarily a practical reference for artists and designers working in the video games industry, it’s equally accessible for those interested to learn about gaming’s future, and potential as an artistic medium. Also available as an eBook

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Interactive Stories and Video Game Art

A Storytelling Framework for Game Design

By: Chris Solarski

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Interactive Stories and Video Game Art

A Storytelling Framework for Game Design

By: Chris Solarski

The success of storytelling in games depends on the entire development team—game designers, artists, writers, programmers and musicians, etc.—working harmoniously together towards a singular artistic vision. Interactive Stories and Video Game Art is first to define a common design language for understanding and orchestrating interactive masterpieces using techniques inherited from the rich history of art and craftsmanship that games build upon. Case studies of hit games like The Last of Us, Journey, and Minecraft illustrate the vital components needed to create emotionally-complex stories that are mindful of gaming’s principal relationship between player actions and video game aesthetics. This book is for developers of video games and virtual reality, filmmakers, gamification and transmedia experts, and everybody else interested in experiencing resonant and meaningful interactive stories. Key Features: The first book to define a common visual and interactive language for understanding and orchestrating sophisticated stories in video games Accessible to industry professionals as well as non-developers Featured concepts apply to all media with an interactive component including: transmedia, gamification and interactive art The definitive framework for designing interactive stories

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Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

By: Chris Solarski

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Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

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Interactive Stories and Video Game Art

A Storytelling Framework for Game Design

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A Storytelling Framework for Game Design

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Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Interactive Stories and Video Game Art

Interactive Stories and Video Game Art

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Interactive Stories and Video Game Art

Interactive Stories and Video Game Art

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