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Microsoft's Cammarano: Games Need Visual Targets, Not Just Concept Art (Gamasutra)

As part of today's Gamasutra feature, Microsoft Game Studios director of art Ben Cammarano has been discussing why cutting out "ambiguous references" and rendering more realistic "visual targets" early in a game project will guide to a much better title. Cammarano is is a 16-year CG veteran who leads the publishing-side art efforts for first party Xbox 360 franchises such as Gears of War, ...

20 Nov 2008, 9:03 am | click here to view more

MIGS: Imagining A Hero - Ubisoft's Mattes On Prince of Persia's Visual Evolution (Gamasutra)

The visual look of Ubisoft's Prince of Persia franchise reboot is aimed at breaking away from what players have gotten used to in the series, while addressing what they now expect from next-gen art direction. It's perhaps more complex a mandate as it seems, and Gamasutra attended producer Ben Mattes' talk at the Montreal International Game Summit to learn more. According to Mattes, when the ...

20 Nov 2008, 7:48 am | click here to view more

A well-rounded view on art (California Aggie)

Though it functions as a bridge between various disciplines of art and entertainment, the panoramic art form may not be a well-known creative channel. Visual artist Sara Velas is working to change that.

20 Nov 2008, 2:17 am | click here to view more

Undergrad art show open until Nov. 25 (The Newark Post)

A special reception will be held this evening for a new art exhibit featuring work from more than 40 University of Delaware undergraduate students majoring in fine arts and visual communications.

20 Nov 2008, 1:26 pm | click here to view more

MIGS: Valve's Mitchell On Creating Left 4 Dead's 'Filmic' Visual Style (Gamasutra)

Coinciding with the launch of Left 4 Dead, Valve's Jason Mitchell gave a Gamasutra-attended talk at the Montreal Game Summit which offered an illuminating session on the ways in which L4D's art direction follows the blueprint laid out by their discoveries developing Team Fortress 2's striking visual design. Mitchell opened by exploring the needs that led them to start the artistic process for ...

19 Nov 2008, 9:18 am | click here to view more

Grids, squares and patterns dominate exhibition of abstract art (Dayton Daily News)

For Rosemarie Bloch, there's a fine line between music and visual art, and much of her painting explores that relationship between rhythm, color and improvisation.

19 Nov 2008, 4:41 pm | click here to view more

Visual art: Fun Art Time (Creative Loafing Atlanta)

Sat., Nov. 22... By Alicia Wages Like Dorothy stepping out of her home and into the land of Technicolor, local artist Squanto converts Mint Gallery into her possess psychedelic wonderland Sat., NOV. 22, for FUN ART TIME. Squanto's brand of Native American and nature-inspired collage art incorporates various media and vibrant colors, making for a truly euphoric visual effect. Noot d' Noot supplies ...

19 Nov 2008, 11:08 am | click here to view more

Visual art: A Shower of Jewels (Creative Loafing Atlanta)

Tues., Nov. 25... By Cinque Hicks The news coming from the crystal balls of financial fortune tellers these days is uniformly grim. So take it as a bit of divine intervention that Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is presenting A SHOWER OF JEWELS: WEALTH DEITIES FROM THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART. Continuing Tues., NOV. 25, the museum hosts a collection of works depicting five gods of tantric ...

19 Nov 2008, 11:08 am | click here to view more

Art as Visual Research: 12 Examples of Kinetic Illusions in Op Art (Scientific American)

This is the fifth article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions. Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather, they are the work of visual artists, who have used their insights into the workings of the visual system to create visual illusions in their pieces of art. We have previously pointed out in our essays that, long before visual ...

18 Nov 2008, 12:11 pm | click here to view more

Evolution of the visual system is key to abstract art (EurekAlert!)

( University of Liverpool ) Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool has discovered.

17 Nov 2008, 9:11 am | click here to view more