Whitepapers

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

Company Whitepapers

• Black Rock Studios 2010
• CAVE (Columbia U) 2015
• Crytek 2014
• Epic Games
• Firaxis 2014
• Guerilla Games2014
• Insomniac Games 2015
• Maverick2015
• Naughty Dog?
• NVIDIA Developer Documentation
• NVIDIA Research
• Pixar Library 2015
• Spash Damage 2011
• Square-Enix 2015
• Technische Universitat wien2015
• Tri-Ace Research2014
• Valve Software 2015

Conference Whitepapers

• Conference Whitepapers Master List
• SIGGRAPH 2011
• Game Developers Conference 2005-2015
• High Performance Graphics

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
• 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
• Why so blue? thread on the Polycount forum has an informed discussion about texture compression.
• The Art and Technology behind Crysis 3 (FMX 2013)

Rendering

• The Unique Lighting of Mirror's Edge (2010)
• Moving Frostbite to Physically Based Rendering (2014)

PBR

• SIGGRAPH 2012 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
• SIGGRAPH 2013 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
• SIGGRAPH 2014 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
• SIGGRAPH 2015 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice

Outdated Whitepapers

• Volition Inc. 2008
• Sony Computer Entertainment America 2006
• Bungie 2009
• Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash (2001) - free download

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