Photoshop

Laurie Ulrich Fuller and Robert C. Fuller, 2011, Photoshop CS5 Bible ISBN-10: 0470115416, ISBN-13: 978-0470115411 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Luke Ahearn, 2011, 3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop by Ahearn ISBN-10: 0240811488, ISBN-13: 978-0240811482 Publisher: Focal Press
Mathew Omernick, 2004, Creating The Art Of The Game, New Riders Publishing ISBN: 0735714096 Publisher: New Riders
David Franson, 2004, The Dark Side of Game Texturing, Course Technology PTR, ISBN: 1592003508 Publisher: Premier Press

A variety of learning strategies will be employed, including lectures, practical and tutorial sessions.
Semester 1: 3 hours per week lectures / Tutorials
Semester 2: 1 hour lecture and a 2 hour lab per week

Each Delivered intensively over the first 8 weeks followed by 4 weeks of surgery sessions

This module is an introduction to the Photoshop and the skills required to produce texture bitmap assets and environment designs for the games industry.

The focus will be on
- Understanding the role of the Games Environment Designer and Texture Artists
- Understanding the development pipeline and work flow for realistic environments

And producing

- Game ready sprite sheets
- User Interfaces and
- Level concepts for 2D games.

These skills are transferable to further studies and texturing for 3D.

A coursework weighted at 100% comprising:-

One Portfolio of Bitmap imagery limited to game engine restrictions assessing Learning Outcomes 1 and 2 weighted at 50%

A Second Portfolio of Bitmap imagery showing environment design assessing Learning Outcomes 3 and 4 weighted at 50%

None.