Video game art and design books

News & General Discussion
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hi

I picked up a great read on the weekend - “Video Game Art” by Nic Kelman.

http://nkelman.com/video-game-art.html

Can any suggest any other game art/design theory books?

thanks

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http://www.sirlin.net/article-archive/

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My favourite! :smile:

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Miscellaneous “making of” books like Halflife2, Halo, The Force Unleashed, etc. Some are sub-par, but you can find the good ones by looking at the reviews on Amazon.

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Most of the Ballistic books are great inspiration for digital artists. A tad expensive, but well worth it :slight_smile:

I got these two and cannot recommend them enough:

http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/uncharted2/

http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste/character_modeling_3/

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My favourites:

Gamescenes: Art in the Age of Videogames

1000 Game Heroes

And this one looks promising (I’ll read it later, so no rate at the moment)

Creating the Art of the Game

(According Amazon ratings, it’s rather a book for inspiration, not really for reference, because too basic)

I also found a huge book list to this theme. Perhaps you can find here something:
http://www.digitpress.com/library/books/book_list.htm

I’m looking now for books with high quality pictures of game level architecture (urban or nature).