Category:Whitepapers

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

Company Whitepapers

• Black Rock Studios
• Bitsquid
• Bungie
• CAVE (Columbia U)
• Crytek
• DICE
• Epic Games
• Firaxis
• Guerilla Games
• Insomniac Games
• Maverick
• Naughty Dog
• NVIDIA Developer Documentation
• NVIDIA Research
• Pixar Library
• Spash Damage
• Sony Computer Entertainment America
• Square-Enix
• Technische Universitat wien
• Tri-Ace Research
• Ubisoft Engine Room
• 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

Game Graphics Books

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

Game Graphics Articles

How game engines work, game graphics examples, effect breakdowns, etc.

• Game Art Tricks blog with game effect breakdowns by Simon 'SimonT' Schreibt. See the Polycount Forum thread Article: Game Art Art.
• Realtime Rendering - Overview and Optimisations for 3D Artists a video by Mike Pickton
• 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
• Efficient Art Production. Theory and practice by Andrew Maximov
• PolygonCount
• 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.