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Game Art: The Graphic Art of Computer Games
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Author: Leo Hartas, Dave Morris
List Price: $29.95
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ISBN: 0823020800
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns (July, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 64,927
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
A gorgeous book and a great time-sink . . .
I've never been an avid computer games player (wrong generation, mostly), but their progressive development, and especially the continuing quest for verisimilitude, fascinate me. I remember when Asteroids and Pac-Man and Space Invaders first appeared (in the lobbies of movie theaters, when "arcade" still meant pinball), and how addicted my adolescent kids quickly became. But that level of 2-D was nothing, of course, compared to the MYST series and to god/simulations like SimCity 3 -- not to mention keyframe animation and real-time interaction and detailed storyboarding that wouldn't be out of place in Hollywood. This is the first book I've seen that really gets into all aspects of video game art and design (there wouldn't have been enough to say even a few years ago), and it succeeds nicely both in its glossy-paper graphics and in the discursive text, which includes numerous interviews with designers.
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