This book offers an in-depth look at the stunning virtual worlds being created by today's leading computer game artists. Subjects range from the purely imaginative vistas of the wildest fantasy and science fiction to the meticulously recreated landscapes and cites of real-world games. Interviews with the artists and game creators give insights into these fabulous worlds, while concept and production artwork reveals masterful details that may go unnoticed in the frantic pace of playing a game.

The Art of Game Worlds

Computers & Technology

Hartas, Leo

Morris, Dave.

Games & Strategy Guides

Harper Paperbacks

Computer and video games are the entertainment media of the 21st century, and game characters like Lara Croft and Mario are now as famous as Mickey Mouse and Homer Simpson. This definitive guide examines the appeal of these iconic characters from the early days of gaming to the present.
A follow-up to the successful Art of Game Worlds, this book examines the remarkable work that goes into the creation of captivating, realistic game characters. Each subsection takes an in-depth look at a specific type of character and uses examples to discuss how that type is used effectively in games. All games enthusiasts, from amateur to expert, will benefit from this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated volume.

The Art of Game Characters

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

In this picture book, illustrator Leo Hartas removes the front wall of a five-story building and paints the frenetic lives he finds inside. In his own imaginative style he introduces us to the 20 people, several cats and myriad other animals that live there. We enter the apartment block early in the morning, and with each turn of the page, move through the day. The visit finishes in the small hours of the following morning when most of the inhabitants (but not quite all) are asleep. The book tells the story of Dot Splot the artist, Professor Algebrus the inventor, Miss Stella Starspangle and Deirdre Dibble, three families and the caretakers in the basement. While the humans are busy, many animals are weaving their part of the story too.

This Old House

Dorling Kindersley Holdings Pl

Haunted Castle

Dorling Kindersley Child's P/B

With this game book the reader can help Diode and Johnny choose a path through Grizzlemyst Castle to find their uncle Barnaby. The children are besieged by horrors and every path but one leads them back to the caves. The game finishes when the children take the path that leads them to Barnaby.

Dorling Kindersley Publishers

In recent years, the computer has become an all-important cartoonist's medium, and this practical, hands-on guide shows how to create professional quality digital cartoons. The author opens with advice on setting up a digital studio and gives tips on how to work smart, work fast, and keep operating expenses low. He follows with advice on transform-ing good graphic ideas into finished work, training the imagination, striving for original-ity, and developing the technique of self-criticism. Other details covered include planning and writing scripts, writing captions for single-frame cartoons, storyboarding, making preliminary sketches on the computer, and mastering line art, color, and 3D techniques. Finally, he offers detailed advice on how to get one's digital art seen by potential buyers, how to get it published, how to set fees, and the importance of time management and meeting deadlines. Here is a textbook and reference volume for today's cartoonist, with information and advice that will remain pertinent for years to come. Approximately 400 illustrations in both color and black and white.

How to Draw and Sell Digital Cartoons

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

Illustrates a day in the life of an apartment building by showing activities going on in different units at various times between 7:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m.

The Apartment Book: A Day in Five Stories

Children's Books

PLATT, RICHARD

Arts, Music & Photography

DK Pub.

For all would-be astronauts and space explorers, a space mystery adventure story combines with intriguing facts about space, and offers a mix of drawings and computer-generated graphics.

Space Explorer Atlas

Science, Nature & How It Works

There's a green comet in the sky and things are getting strange. Every day, fantasy and reality are getting harder to tell apart. Witches in bottles, warmongering cabbages from the planet Pluto, and a pterandon roosting on the Eiffel Tower. Or is it a pterodactyl? Jack Ember is caught between two very unreliable mentors. Talisin is a two-thousand year old wizard or an escaped madman - or possibly both. The Kind Gentleman is the sort of fairy godfather who'll grant you three wishes you can't refuse. Both of them have plans for Jack, who's spent his life dreaming of adventure and now is about to get rather more of it than he bargained for. Mirabilis is an epic full-color graphic novel drawn from the pages of Random House's weekly comic The DFC. A delightful fantasy adventure for all ages from 10 years and up.

Mirabilis: Winter - Volume One

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Mirus Entertainment

Mirabilis is the story of a lost and forgotten year sometime between Victorian and Edwardian times. On New Year's Day a green comet appears in the sky. As it draws closer to Earth, imaginary things become part of daily life, until in midsummer the entire world is filled with fantasy. Mermaids swim up the Thames, there's a Martian embassy in New York, and a dragon is trying to hatch the Taj Mahal. Then the comet passes the sun and starts to grow fainter every day, and so the magic begins to fade. But having once known such wonders - having let their imaginations off the leash - can people go back to their life the way it used to be? Mirabilis is an epic full-color graphic novel drawn from the pages of Random House's weekly comic The DFC. A delightful fantasy adventure for all ages from 10 years and up.

Mirabilis: Winter - Volume Two

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The Art of Game Worlds

The Art of Game Characters

This Old House

Haunted Castle

Haunted Castle

How to Draw and Sell Digital Cartoons

The Apartment Book: A Day in Five Stories

Space Explorer Atlas

Mirabilis: Winter - Volume One

Mirabilis: Winter - Volume Two