Help with character design research

DudekBR

Hey folks!

I'm new here, a brazilian who loves games, cinema and discovered the 3D CG as a solution to work in one of these areas. I'm recently doing a research about character design for tridimensional games. I would like to know more about low poly game character design for games, but didn't found a game to explore yet. Do you have some suggestions about wich games I can explore? I was thinking of try to discover the creative process of the Dota 2, God of War or Metal Gear character design. I need to select one game and find books that explain the creative process of these kind of characters. Do you have any ideia of what would help me?

Thanks. Sorry for the bad english, but I hope you have understood.

Steve Schulze

Ballistic Media do a series of "The Art of X" books, including one on God of War 3. I haven't actually read through that one specifically, but I think it'd be safe to assume it'd go into the technicalities of the characters a little bit, albeit probably not all that deeply.

I think you'd have more luck looking for resources online than from print books though.

Sculptaur

Yeah I don't think the GOW 3 book goes into the actual process to deeply. For Dota 2 they have some pretty in depth stuff here though.

http://www.dota2.com/workshop/

Hope that helps!