Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Kassandra Arevalo is instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word. He currently is the Coordinator and Professor of the 3D Animation & Game Department at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. He holds an MFA in 3D Animation and a BFA in Theatre Arts from Utah State University. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.Īdam Watkins is a 20-year veteran of 3D education. He has worked at Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward, and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and most recently Marvel’s Avengers with Crystal Dynamics.

Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Jing Tian Li is a graduate of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York’s School of Visual Arts, where he earned an MFA in Computer Art.

When complete, students will have a playable version of an FPS game.

All software used are free to students.

Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at industries across the world.

Build a complete game from start to finish.

Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games.

Finally, readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. Then, the book covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. This includes polygonal modeling, UV layout, and custom texture painting. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Maya, Substance Painter, and Unreal Engine.

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