Customer Reviews

Japanese Game Graphics: Behind the Scenes of Your Favorite Games

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From the cover I expected a fluffy rehash of game desktop wallpapers. Instead, it's packed with lots of great, technical information about the creation of game graphics! Highly recommended for aspiring 3d artists.

I'd probably give this 4 and a half stars out of five but rounded up. I took a punt on it and am pleased i did.
In contrast to the previous poster i think it's a more interesting purchase than Art of Game Worlds (but only if you have some interest in Max/Maya and the process of game-making.)

I'm quite unfamiliar with Japanese games (don't have a PS2) and maybe because of this the artwork seemd quite fresh and exotic to me, more so than many games developed in the US/UK/Australia etc.
The quality of the artwork throughout is very high..this book has serious eyecandy value as well as being an interesting read.
Recommended.

This book is very well presented, and makes a nice coffee table type addition to anyones collection. The art is great and varied, and the mixture of rendered shots, in-progress shots, concept graphics and screenshots of the art being produced in the various applications is very nice.

The information contained in the book is insightful, and gives many tips and snippets of how the artists and animators achieved certain effects, or managed to come up with the final result. There is actually more information than you would expect, but don't expect to be able to use this book as a guide to producing your own graphics :).

The only niggle I have is that some of the writing (which I presume has been translated from japanese) is very difficult to follow, and on occasion doesn't make much sense :) An example of this is (pg. 106) -start paragraph- "However, perfect drawings were not created right away. CG and the overall design were both created by mutually adjusting the forms. Of course, during the presentation stage, the motions were considered and the model was shown, The model that consisted of visual motions was ehibited and the technically difficult parts were described." -end paragraph-

I also purchased 'The art of game worlds' which I prefer to 'Japanese Game Graphics', although it is less technical.

I ordered this book pretty much just for inspiration for my own 3d work, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it goes way beyond just pretty pictures. While not a step-by-step book by any means, this title does go surprisingly in-depth on the methods used to create the artwork for these games. A beautiful book for reference or simply for the coffee table.