This comprehensive manual teaches the art and craft of creating compelling graphics for video games in a wide range of media, both traditional and computer generated. The author also describes software that imitates the traditional media of paint, pen, and pencil. He goes on to discuss in detail how game genre defines the type of characters to be portrayed, whether human or fantastic, and he shows how to render appropriate facial expressions that will define a character's personality.

 

Give life to the beings that roam your imagination.
Dragons may terrorize fantasy worlds, but they need peasants to munch on. . . heroes to confront. . . elegant elves, shrewd sorcerers and dreaded demons to battle. Following on the wings of the ferociously popular DragonArt, this book shows you how to conjure up your own fantasy realms by drawing inspiration from fairy tales, legends and (if you dare) things that go bump in the night.
Breathe the life into your beings by basing them upon fundamental human anatomy--proportions, facial expressions and gender-specific characteristics.

Scott Easley takes you through the process Constructing of a character animation in Maya Pipeline That Will allow you to constantly update and Improve your Characters Without adversely affecting the existing Any of animations. Scott Also Shows you How to use the Trax animation Editor from the Ground up and How to build a Library of animation actions Which you CAN then use to block-out More Complex character animations. Included on this DVD Are tutorials, Sample a rig, Blend Shapes for facial set-ups, character texture maps, Custom tools, SHELVES, Poses and a Maya Project to Get you on your Quicktime , Flash, Acrobat

In his first of three DVDs, J.P. takes you on an exciting creative and technical journey showing you how he begins a fantasy illustration, “Dark Riders”, purely from imagination. He covers the early stages of his process, from the initial idea to thumbnails, concept design and the final color sketch. J.P. also discusses how character personality, costumes, weapons and action poses affect the narrative of the final illustration.

Scott Robertson - one of the most popular instructors school of computer graphics Gnomon