I almost forgot, have you ever heard of Expose, Exotique, Digital Painting Techniques, or Digital Art Masters? They are all ongoing series of art books that focus on computer generated art and a lot of it deals with video game subject matter. All 4 series are outstanding and are ultimately some of my all time favorite art books.
Digital Painting Techniques and Digital Art Masters is produced by 3DTotal Publishing. Digital Painting Techniques is up to volume #7 and Digital Painting Masters is up to volume #9. Here are the links for those 2 series:
Digital Painting Techniques
https://shop.3dtotal.com/books/digit...echniques.html
Digital Art Masters
https://shop.3dtotal.com/books/digital-art-masters.html
Expose & Exotique are produced by Ballistic Publishing. Expose is up to volume #11 and Exotique is up to volume #7. Here are the links for those:
Exotique
https://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/exotique/
Expose
https://www.ballisticpublishing.com/...pose/expose_1/
One of the nice things about Ballistic Publishing is they have both regular editions (soft cover & hard cover) and a special limited edition. The limited editions, while a bit pricey, are absolutely beautiful and are some of the nicest quality books I have ever purchased. They have a black leather cover, gold metallic embossed lettering, and come with a bonus. Exotique #1-#4 comes with 4 bonus prints. Exotique #5-7 come with tutorials. Expose usually come with a free A3 print and a tutorial.
Plus if you go to Ballistic's website, they have a preview for each book that lets you view a sizable portion of the books before buying them. So you can see a lot of the artwork before buying any particular book.
Here is a picture that shows what thier limited editions look like, along with the COA they come with:
Ballistic also has a line of books called "The Art of the Game", which are art books based on particular games. There are only 4 books so far in this series, but I was told by CS that more are being planned. The titles currently available are The Art of Uncharted 2, The Art of God of War 3, The Art of Gears of War 3, and The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants. They actually produce 3 different versions for this line. They have the regular edition, limited edition and Folio edition. Here is the link in case anyone is interested:
The Art of the Game
https://www.ballisticpublishing.com/...eartofthegame/
Here are some pics for the Uncharted 2 book:
and here is the Folio edition:
I haven't purchased any of the Art of the Game books, but the limited edition and folio editions look really nice!
Anyways, if you really enjoy art books that focus on computer generated art, you should really give these books a look. Again, you can preview a large chunk of the Ballistic Publishing books right on the website, including the Art of the Game books.
Personally, I am hooked on all 4 series. Thankfully, they only come out with 1 new book every year so its not that expensive keeping up to date with them once you have actually purchased all of the previous books, which took me over 3 years to do. I buy hard covers for Digital Art Masters and Digital Painting Techniques and buy the limited editions for Exotique and Expose. If you really like quality art books, thier well worth the price!
There is currently a buy one get one half off sale on Digital Painting Techniques and Digital Art Masters currently has a deal where if you buy 2 books you save 10%, 3 books and you save 15% and 4 books and you save 20%. And Ballistic Publishing does have other series as well. They have a series called "d' artiste" that has some really interesting looking books. Here is the link for that series in case anyone is interested in checking them out:
https://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste/