Here's a few articles and stuffs that might be useful to some of you.

::GamaSutra Articles::

"Improving the Combat 'Impact' of Action Games" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050428/sang_01.shtml

Excerpt of the Book "Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060622/ahearn_01.shtml (Three Whole Pages! )

"Modular Game Art for Fast Level Design" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051202/mader_01.shtml

"Illustrator-to-Maya: How to Design and Build the Perfect Level" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050607/steingraber_01.shtml

"Tiled Terrain" - http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20011024/peasley_01.htm

::Level Design::

GamaSutra Level Design Resource Page - http://www.gamasutra.com/resource_guide/20010716/index.shtml

Misc. Level Design Articles - help.hourences.com/ http://www.gamedesign.net/node/111?PHPSESSID=b9d5fc7f7f9e82a463cc3b84d8f51815

::Other Stuff::

"Watch and Learn Videos - Digital Painting" (DivX Format) - http://www.carloscabrera.com.ar/tutorial.html

"Designing Arcade Computer Graphics" (zipped PDFs) http://www.gamemaker.nl/feldman/full.zip

Tsugumo's Article "So You Want to be a Pixel Artist?" - http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/

"Creating Good Game Art When You’re Not An Artist" http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1069.asp

if there's something that i missed please notify me and i'll stick it up here. this will also be added to as i find more articles.

NOTICE: As you can see in the succeeding posts (no offense to Fenryl and Shankar, of course, they were just trying to help ), please do not list link suggestions for "cut & paste" tutorials, since this thread is focused more on design than the "do this, then do that" kind of instructions.

[2010-02-26: Fixed a broken link. -dbaumgart] [Edited by - dbaumgart on February 26, 2010 5:51:14 PM]

Very nice! I really like the Illustrator to Maya one of Level Design. [Btw, spelling error there; you missed the last "l" on level. ;)]

I'm sure a mod will agree that this thread deserves a sticky, especially if more articles can be dug up.

Thanks for telling me about that typo Shankar
*fixes typo*

sometime i'll dig up some more stuff to post up here...

Quote: Original post by destron
Thanks for telling me about that typo Shankar
*fixes typo*

sometime i'll dig up some more stuff to post up here...

Oh, you want more stuff? Here you go [smile]

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Tutorials
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Gnomon Online -- http://www.gnomononline.com/information.php
A web based service launched by the Gnomon School of visual effects.
Gnomon Online offers video tutorials for Maya.
Head modeling tutorial -- http://www.thehobbitguy.com/tutorials/polymodeling/index.html

3D Studio Max tutorials
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http://maxrovat.sns.hu/subdiv/
http://www.3dmaxer.dk/tutorial.asp?ak=777&type=max
http://www.tutorialoutpost.com/3d-studio-max-modeling/
http://www.3d-resources.com/
http://www4.discreet.com/3dsmax/3dsmax.php?id=399
http://www.huntfor.com/3d/tutorials.htm
http://www.web3dservice.com/3d_tutorials.html
http://www.3dlinks.com/Links.cfm?categoryid=13&subcategoryid=105&subsubcategoryid=44
http://www.the3dstudio.com/default.aspx

Blender 3D
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www.blender3d.com

http://www.be3d.org/
The most updated tutorial list -- http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4624
Tutorial on armatures -- http://mmaigrot.free.fr/didac-blender/ikas/ikas-eng/ik-intro.php
Tutorials on BlenderWars -- http://www.blenderwars.com/tut.php?module=index
Tutorial on texturing -- http://www.geocities.com/woodsmith102000/Tutorials1.html?
and part 2 of the above tutorial -- http://www.geocities.com/woodsmith102000/Tutorial2.html?
The good places to learn about RVks:
-- http://download.blender.org/documentation/html/x4939.html
-- http://membres.lycos.fr/bobois/Tuts/VertexKeys/rvk1.htm
-- http://membres.lycos.fr/bobois/Tuts/VertexKeys/rvk3_2.htm
A big list of Blender tutorials -- http://membres.lycos.fr/bobois/Liens_Links/big_list.html
A tutorial on making clothes in Blender -- http://www.free-webspace.biz/sonix/BlenderTutes/QuickClothTute.html
A basic tutorial -- http://www.fanfilmengine.com/Blender0001.html


Video Tutorials
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http://www.bl3nder.com/tutorials/
http://www.letwory.net/tutes/edgefaceloops.htm

UV -- http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/mytut/uvtut.avi

SubSurf -- http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/mytut/subdiv.avi

Duplivert -- http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/mytut/duplivert.avi

Small examples -- www.weirdhat.com
for sfx with
blender

Modeling a stargate -- http://www.fanfilmengine.com/Blender0003.mov

Atutorial for beginners -- http://www.fanfilmengine.com/Blender0004.mov
on widgets



Character Modeling
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Character Process -- http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/character_tutorial/character_process.htm

A full procces character -- http://67.15.36.49/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp
modeling tutorial

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Hope this is helpfull...

-Fenryl

[Edited by - Fenryl on August 30, 2006 5:39:33 AM]

Ooh extremely helpful. This should be added to the sticky tutorial thread.
LINK::
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?whichpage=1&pagesize=25&topic_id=257345
This sticky has 100+ sites for tutorials, downloads etc.

Here's one I use often:
www.3dquakers.com <- extremely helpful (I used one of their free videos, really nice.) A lot of paid stuff too, but expensive.

[Edited by - D Shankar on June 25, 2006 9:38:53 PM]

One more:

http://www.tutorialized.com/
Lots of CG stuff. Photoshop, Flash, Max, Blender, Bryce. You name it!

hey guys... i really appreciate all the links and stuff you've given me but i was trying to focus this section on design, rather than "cut-and-paste" tutorials. i might post the gnomon workshop link up there and maybe some of the other ones, but i'm afraid i'm gonna leave out most of the tutorial links.

[Edited by - destron on June 27, 2006 5:46:15 PM]

I agree on that last point. Its easy enough to find tutorials and whatnot on those generic sites... the design articles are alot harder to find and gather.

Quote: Original post by destron
hey guys... i really appreciate all the links and stuff you've given me but i was trying to focus this section on design, rather than "cut-and-paste" tutorials. i'm gonna post the gnomon workshop link up there and maybe some of the other ones, but i'm afraid i'm gonna leave out most of the tutorial links.

Oh, sorry [oh]

These articles give more information about the 'design' of level design
(hope this is a little bit more helpfull then my last post [smile])

www.gamasutra.com/resource_guide/20010716/index.shtml

www.gamasutra.com/features/20030603/licht_01.shtml

www.gamedesign.be/Hourences/articles.htm
EDIT:
The website has changed. New site: http://help.hourences.com/

You can find the old tutorials on this site: http://phalanx.planetunreal.gamespy.com/tutorials.htm
/EDIT

www.gamedesign.net


-Fenryl

[Edited by - Fenryl on November 19, 2006 5:32:14 AM]

Yea sorry. I didn't realize your goal with this thread was design only ;). EDIT: And I'm glad this got a sticky. It'll really help designers and cg artists alike.