devWAM • Interesting reads (3D, lowpoly, game assets, pixelart etc.)

Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 1: Stop Hitting the Bottleneck
Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 2: Maximizing Efficiency
by Guillaume Provost

Triangulation
by Emil Persson

PSG Art Tutorial
by Arne Niklas Jansson

Baking Multiple Maps in 3dsmax
by Mike Bart

Giving Good Feedback
Game and Mod Development Basics
by Chris Holden

Mod Startups
Modding Etiquette
by Michael Buschbeck

Creating Modular Game Art For Fast Level Design
by Paul Mader

Modularity and Drawcall
by Fabrice Piquet

Framerate Optimization Tips
by Soenke Christian Seidel

51 things every game student should know
by Kaye Elling

A bit of color theory for pixelart work
from Pixel Joint Forum

Game Development Resources
by David Arcila

POLYCOUNT WIKI

C2_Scientist on Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:03 pm

Here are links to polycount.com wiki and forums, if you think they should be added to the list:

http://wiki.polycount.com/
http://www.polycount.com/forum/

Toshiba-3 on Wed May 01, 2013 8:49 am

Added 51 things every game student should know, as it's an interesting read about one of our passions, even though we aren't in the industry :)
Some aspects can be useful for other artistic (or not) domains.

Harmalarm on Wed May 01, 2013 9:20 am

haha, a quick scan through the document already made me laugh. Nice find!

Toshiba-3 on Wed May 13, 2015 10:25 am

Added a link to a topic on Pixel Joint addressing color theory and palette building. Very interesting if you're a C1 modder.
Got the link from this very interesting article btw: http://www.dinofarmgames.com/a-pixel-ar ... pixel-art/

Toshiba-3 on Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:14 pm

Added the following resource list:
Game Development Resources
by David Arcila