Making-Of

Insomniac Games' new blog site has an interview with Dave Guertin & Greg Baldwin who are concept artists for Insomniac and are also known for their website Creaturebox.com. Both talk about their beginnings in the industry, their time at Insomniac and some of the early days working on the first Ratchet and Clank games. Also featured are two time lapse videos showing their creation process. Check out the full inteview HERE.

The Blender Foundation has released some concept art for the the forthcoming Durian project.

Laurens Corijn, 3D and Technical Artist for ExDream, posted some comparison shots showing the differences in Unreal Tournament 3 using the new Lightmass GI baking system that came with the release of Epic's UDK (Unreal Development Kit).  

Check out Laurens post here. Read more about the release of Epic's UDK on Eat3D here.

Part 3 in the excellent Character Modeling series by Ballistic Publishing is now available for pre-order.

And whats more, If you pre-order d'artiste Character Modeling 3 Limited Edition or are one of the first 500 customers to pre-order d'artiste Character Modeling 3 slipcased edition you will receive a link too Giovanni Nakpil’s quadruped creature, and Cesar Dacol Jr’s Pond Guardian models that are featured within the book itself.

3d technology pioneer and guru Paul Debevec has recently given a lecture at TED explaining how the Emily Project was brought to life using state of the art photo source capturing from a spherical lighting rig.

Another behind the scenes video from the art team at Bioware discussing how they went about making Coruscant for their upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.

You can download the video here and if you're on Facebook check them out here and add them as a fan while you're there.

CG Society has done a game production focus on Recksteady's  Batman Arkham Asylum.

Read the full article here

Our friends over at 3Dtotal have published an article in which Damir G Martin presents an overview of his character 'Stiks'
 In the overview he goes over the creation the DinoMonster, which was sculpted and textured within ZBrush.

ArenaNet, makers of Guild Wars and the upcoming Guild Wars 2, have released the Art of Guild Wars 2. 

This hardbound book comes with 128 pages of concept art that includes the undead realm of Orr, the Sylvari and the fiery war machines of the Charr. A great addition to any artists inspiration shelf.

Lead technical Artist Julian Love and Lead Content Designer Kevin Martens have had an interview with Gamasutra, in which they talk about the development and design process involved in making the much anticipated Diablo III.