Art of Darksiders
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Win! So bought!
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Grats to you guys at Vigil.
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Grats to you guys at Vigil.
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was sad the God of War 3 art book was pushed back to October... but waddayagonnado.
please say thats not true
ya, i just got a mail earlier in the week saying they were pushing it back.
Now I need this book and the Uncharted 2 one
barnes and noble has it to July 1st -.- Would be agreat Canada Day's gift XD
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Im in love with the book haha, the concept art is beautiful and the 3d renders at the end of the book are real nice. Again though this book is more about the concept art so 3d nuts might feel hard done by, probably about 40 pages of this 288 page book is dedicated to 3d but there are small hints throughout the book of there 3d process, the 3d stuff is still lovely though, looks like a few in game beauty shots of most of the characters and then the Promo stuff aswell. The 2d character and environment work is stunning though,
If anyone is like me and fell in love with auto destructs website then I would 100% recommend it.
Glad to hear there's a bit of enviro stuff in there too, really looking forward to checking that out.
Shipment 1 of 1 Not yet shipped Delivery Estimate:November 29, 2010 - December 1, 2010
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1926778103/ref=oss_product"]The Art of Darksiders [/ame]Vigil Games, et al
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Don't lose hope Jeremy!
My delivery estimate changed about four times since preordering this back when it was announced. Mine was originally planned to ship about November 29th but I got an email on Friday night saying the estimate had been brought forward to the 9th, followed about half an hour later by the dispatch notification.
My guess is that the publisher had told Amazon it was gonna be late November, then not told them about it being ready earlier, suddenly they start turning up at Amazon depots.
And that price is pretty damn good. I'm used to about $50 a book, so $27 on sale at amazon right now works for me. Absolutely picking that one up.
On the topic of 3d versus 2d content of it, I get more inspired by 2d art, than 3d, personally. I end up wanting to make a 2d character into 3d, and have a lot of fun doing it. Seeing the 3d stuff will be nice, but that's stuff I deal with everyday, so I'd much rather look at 2d
Yea I do like seeing the 2d stuff but would like to see more 3d in these artbooks, the art of Uncharted 2 and God of war 3 had a tiny section on 3d compared to the concept art side and its nice seeing zbrush renders but would like a much more in depth look into the 3d side of things. Maybe with a more making of approach than an art of.
The great thing about the darksiders book though is that the 2d isnt just matte paintings, its all the working out and variations on how they came to a final design. Most with a 3d model aswell............ great book haha
I'd love to see a more affordable book more dedicated to 3d. The Ballistic books are great, but so expensive, on their site anyway, $70 for an artbook is just plain ridiculous. Just searched them on Amazon, though and they have more reasonable prices there. The Gears book (NOT exclusive to Gears, though), for $47. That's more reasonable. Not good, but reasonable.
I know I, and a lot of other people, asked FredH for an Art of Dominance War book, but while he said it was being considered, it never happened (obviously). THAT I'd pay $70 for
I have to say this is the most professional art book I own. And I've got both the UC2 and GoW Ballistic books.
It's like they put it together solely for game artists. The sheer quantity of content is insane, I'm quite stunned.
I mean, the Ballistic books are incredible, and visually beautiful, but they're the kind of books that would probably appeal to anybody whether they are a production artist or not. But this Darksiders book is like Vigil just got EVERY piece of concept art and production art and put it together in a book and said 'here you go aspiring game artists, this is what we do'.
Highly recommended. Even if you didn't rate the game, the book is just pure awesome. Loads of characters, loads of environments, props, weapons etc. And from many stages of development. Even early sketches of War which render him barely recognizable compared to his final form.
Sorry to hear that, hopefully you can get it sorted. If it's Amazon, they're usually pretty good with sorting stuff like that out. I know I've had to reroute a few shipments in the past and they've handled it well.
Rest assured it will be well worth the wait!