Sue Blackman - Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4: All-in-one, multi-platform game development

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4:

All-in-One, Multi-Platform Game Development

Sue Blackman

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4: All-in-One, Multi-Platform Game Development

Copyright 2013 by Sue Blackman

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About the Author

Sue Blackman is a 3D artist and interactive applications author and instructor based in Southern California. She has taught 3ds Max and game classes for artists for well over ten years in top-rated community colleges and private schools, such as The Art Institute of California, and has been lead 3D artist on games for Activision, through one of its subsidiaries. Blackman has worked in the industry for several years, helping to train Fortune 1000 companies, such as Boeing, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman, to create serious games and training applications with game-based formats. She has been involved with the commercial development of real-time 3D engines for more than ten years and has authored multiple training-video courses for the Unity engine for Lynda.com . She is an avid tutorial writer and has created both tutorials, as a contributing author, and artwork for various 3ds Max books over the years, as well as training manuals for 3D authoring applications for serious games. She has also written for ACM Siggraph on serious games, one of her favorite topics. You can visit Blackmans web site at www.3dadventurous.com or contact her through the Unity Forum.