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3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development / 2nd edition
2011 || Hardcover || Fletcher Dunn e.a. || Taylor & Francis
"This book presents the essential math needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. It provides an introduction to mathematics for game designers, including fundamentals of coordinate spaces, vectors, and matrices, orientation in three dimensions, introduction to calculus and dynamics, graphics, and parametric curves"--Provided by publisher.
This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. Reflecting both academic and in-the-tr...
Story Structure and Development
A Guide for Animators, VFX Artists, Game Designers, and Virtual Reality
2017 || Paperback || Craig Caldwell || Taylor & Francis
Professor Craig Caldwell's Story Structure and Development offers a clear approach to the essentials of story. It lays out the fundamental elements, principles, and structure for animators, designers, and artists so they can incorporate these concepts in their work. As a practical guide it includes extensive insights and advice from industry professionals.
Readers will learn the universal patterns of story and narrative used in today's movies, animation, games, and VR. With over 200 colorful ...
Architectural Approach to Level Design / 2nd edition
Second edition
2019 || Paperback || Christopher W. Totten || Taylor & Francis
Written by a game developer and professor trained in architecture, An Architectural Approach to Level Design is one of the first books to integrate architectural and spatial design theory with the field of level design. It explores the principles of level design through the context and history of architecture. Now in its second edition, An Architectural Approach to Level Design presents architectural techniques and theories for you to use in your own work.
The author connects architecture and...
Real-Time Rendering / 4th Edition
2018 || Hardcover || Tomas Akenine-Moeller e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second.
Real-Time Rendering combines fundamental principles with guidance on the latest techniques to provide a complete reference on three-dimensional interactive computer graphics. It will help you increase speed and improve image quality and learn the features and limitations of acceleration algorithms and graphics APIs. This latest fourth edition has ...
Game Design Workshop / 4th Edition
A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games, Fourth Edition
2018 || Paperback || Tracy Fullerton || Taylor & Francis
Game Design Workshop is a truly great book, and has become, in my opinion, the de facto standard text for beginner- to intermediate-level game design education. This updated new edition is extremely relevant, useful and inspiring to all kinds of game designers. - Richard Lemarchand, Interactive Media & Games Division, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California.
The updates refresh elements of the book that are important as examples, but don't radically alter the thing about t...
Game Engine Architecture / 3rd Edition
2018 || Hardcover || Jason Gregory || Taylor & Francis
New to this edition: update the section on game console HW, extend the rendering chapter, include a section on 2D GUI, new chapter on multiplayer networking, more coverage of the Unity game engine.In this new and improved third edition of the highly popular Game Engine Architecture, Jason Gregory draws on his nearly two decades of experience at Midway, Electronic Arts and Naughty Dog to present both the theory and practice of game engine software development. In this book, the broad range of ...
The Visual Story / 3rd edition
Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media
2020 || Paperback || Bruce Block || Taylor & Francis
This updated edition of a best-selling classic shows you how to structure your visuals as carefully as a writer structures a story or composers structure their music. The Visual Story teaches you how to design and control the structure of your production using the basic visual components of space, line, shape, tone, color, movement, and rhythm. You can use these components to effectively convey moods and emotions, create a visual style, and utilize the important relationship between the visua...