Category Whitepapers

This page has links to conference proceedings and research papers (aka whitepapers) about game graphics.

Company Whitepapers

• Black Rock Studios
• Bungie
• Crytek
• DICE
• Epic Games
• Guerilla Games
• Insomniac Games
• Naughty Dog
• NVIDIA Developer Documentation
• NVIDIA Research
• Pixar Library
• Sony Computer Entertainment America
• Valve Software
• Volition Inc.

Conference Whitepapers

• Conference Whitepapers Master List
• SIGGRAPH 2011
• Game Developers Conference 2005-2010
• Gamefest London 2010
• Gamefest Seattle 2010
• High Performance Graphics 2010

Game Graphics Books

• Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001) - free download

Game Renderer Articles

These articles help artists understand how game engines work, so they can learn how to build art that performs better.

• CG Science for Artists – Part 1: Real-Time and Offline Rendering by Leonard Teo
• CG Science for Artists - Part 2: The Real-Time Rendering Pipeline by Leonard Teo
• Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 1: Stop Hitting the Bottleneck by Guillaume Provost
• Beautiful, Yet Friendly Part 2: Maximizing Efficiency by Guillaume Provost
• ExtremeTech 3D Pipeline Tutorial by Dave Salvator
• The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline by Richard Thomson
• Polygon Count
• FAQ: Game art optimisation (do polygon counts really matter?) from the Polycount forum
• How many textures per model is too many? from the Polycount forum
• Graphics topics on the DevMaster wiki
• Why so blue? thread on the Polycount forum has an informed discussion about texture compression.

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