Postmortems from Game Developer
Postmortems from Game Developer

Author: Austin Grossman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1136064613

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The popular Postmortem column in Game Developer magazine features firsthand accounts of how some of the most important and successful games of recent years have been made. This book offers the opportunity to harvest this expertise with one volume. The editor has organized the articles by theme and added previously unpublished analysis to reveal successful management techniques. Readers learn how superstars of the game industry like Peter Molyneux and Warren Spector have dealt with the development challenges such as managing complexity, software and game design issues, schedule challenges, and changing staff needs.

Fun Fab Swatch Pad
Fun Fab Swatch Pad

Author: Karen Campbell

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-26

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780996942782

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You don't have to be Van Gogh to know: You can't judge a marker color by its cap! Swatching out your art supplies BEFORE you use them is super important and can keep you from making some very grave color mistakes when it comes to masterpiece time!! But, if you're the proud new owner of that 3,000 pencil set it also can be boooooooring! Artist Karen Campbell has gathered a fun group of her artsy friends to help you spice up your swatching options in this collection of fun, easy to use color swatch templates! Copy the images directly on your favorite art papers or color them directly in the book and make the otherwise arduous process of swatching, dare I say...FUN! Say goodbye to boring squares and circles and helloooo to cute designs like classy cocktail glasses, sweet 60's suitcases, owls, flags, lipsticks, faces, perfume bottles, hunky dudes, birdhouses and MORE! Before you botch it, swatch it!

Hip Hop around the World
Hip Hop around the World

Author: Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-12-01

Total Pages: 933

ISBN-13:

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This set covers all aspects of international hip hop as expressed through music, art, fashion, dance, and political activity. Hip hop music has gone from being a marginalized genre in the late 1980s to the predominant style of music in America, the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries around the world. Hip Hop around the World includes more than 450 entries on global hip hop culture as it includes music, art, fashion, dance, social and cultural movements, organizations, and styles of hip hop. Virtually every country is represented in the text. Most of the entries focus on music styles and notable musicians and are unique in that they discuss the sound of various hip hop styles and musical artists' lyrical content, vocal delivery, vocal ranges, and more. Many additional entries deal with dance styles, such as breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, popping/locking, clowning, and krumping, and cultural movements, such as black nationalism, Nation of Islam, Five Percent Nation, and Universal Zulu Nation. Country entries take into account politics, history, language, authenticity, and personal and community identification. Special care is taken to draw relationships between people and entities such as mentor-apprentice, producer-musician, and more.

Obiter Dicta
Obiter Dicta

Author: Erick Verran

Publisher: punctum books

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1685710026

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Stitched together over five years of journaling, Obiter Dicta is a commonplace book of freewheeling explorations representing the transcription of a dozen notebooks, since painstakingly reimagined for publication. Organized after Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia, this unschooled exercise in aesthetic thought--gleefully dilettantish, oftentimes dangerously close to the epigrammatic--interrogates an array of subject matter (although inescapably circling back to the curiously resemblant histories of Western visual art and instrumental music) through the lens of drive-by speculation. Erick Verran's approach to philosophical inquiry follows the brute-force literary technique of Jacques Derrida to exhaustively favor the material grammar of a signifier over hand-me-down meaning, juxtaposing outer semblances with their buried systems and our etched-in-stone intuitions about color and illusion, shape and value, with lessons stolen from seemingly unrelatable disciplines. Interlarded with extracts of Ludwig Wittgenstein but also Wallace Stevens, Cormac McCarthy as well as Roland Barthes, this cache of incidental remarks eschews what's granular for the biggest picture available, leaving below the hyper-specialized fields of academia for a bird's-eye view of their crop circles. Obiter Dicta is an unapologetic experiment in intellectual dot-connecting that challenges much long-standing wisdom about everything from illuminated manuscripts to Minecraft and the evolution of European music with lyrical brevity; that is, before jumping to the next topic.

30 Years of Adventure
30 Years of Adventure

Author: Of The Coast Wizards

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9780786934980

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A thirtieth-anniversary retrospective explores the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, featuring a selection of essays and photographs that capture the events, products, personalities, art, and influence of the game through the years.

A Companion to Digital Art
A Companion to Digital Art

Author: Christiane Paul

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-03-02

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 1118475216

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Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today’s digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists. Showcases the critical and theoretical approaches in this fast-moving discipline Explores the history and evolution of digital art; its aesthetics and politics; as well as its often turbulent relationships with established institutions Provides a platform for the most influential voices shaping the current discourse surrounding digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists Tackles digital art’s primary practical challenges – how to present, document, and preserve pieces that could be erased forever by rapidly accelerating technological obsolescence Up-to-date, forward-looking, and critically reflective, this authoritative new collection is informed throughout by a deep appreciation of the technical intricacies of digital art

How to Draw Fun, Fab Faces
How to Draw Fun, Fab Faces

Author: Karen Campbell

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-06

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9780996942706

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How to Draw Fun, Fab Faces is a fun-for-all-ages, comprehensive guide to drawing simple, beautiful, female faces. With clear, easy to follow step-by-step directions, fun drawing prompts, full color examples and tons of encouragement, drawing pretty faces has never been easier! In addition to 70+ pages of instructions and fun, engaging activities, budding artists can further hone their skills by rendering the bonus coloring pages! This is a great addition to any artists' drawing library and is truly fun and useful for all ages. The book also has an accompanying e-course for those wishing to further their study and practice in the art of drawing fan, fabulous faces. Go to AwesomeArtSchool.com to learn more!

The Shadow Commission
The Shadow Commission

Author: David Mack

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 146689086X

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The wizards of the Cold War must uncover a secret cabal responsible for the Kennedy assassination in The Shadow Commission, New York Times bestselling author David Mack's globe-spanning historical fantasy sequel to The Iron Codex. November 1963. Cade and Anja have lived in hiding for a decade, training new mages. Then the assassination of President Kennedy trigger a series of murders whose victims are all magicians—with Cade, Anja, and their allies as its prime targets. Their only hope of survival: learning how to fight back against the sinister cabal known as the Shadow Commission. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Operina
Operina

Author: Ludovico degli Arrighi

Publisher: Operina LLC

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 1934227188

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IPhone Artistry
IPhone Artistry

Author: Dan Burkholder

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781454701279

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There's no doubting how popular the iPhone is, or how impressive its imaging capabilities are--both with photos and video. That's why it's now the most popular camera on Flickr. iPhone Artistry shows users how their phone can be a powerful, fun, and serious photographic tool, with techniques for getting the highest-quality images, using their hardware to the fullest, and experimenting with a multitude of the most creative apps available from the Apple store.