Totten - Game Character Creation with Blender and Unity

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Acknowledgments

Books like this are the Olympian effort of not just the author but a great many people, who all deserve recognition for their efforts. I would of course like to thank the fine folks who make Blender and Unity and distribute them for the masses to use. You are doing a great thing for independent artists and game developers. A special thanks goes out to Ton Roosendaal for getting me in touch with Wiley in the first place to make this book happen. Id like to thank the teachers who introduced me to 3D art and animation back in college and pushed me to pursue a career making and studying games. Id also like to thank the D.C. chapter of the International Game Developers Association for being so encouraging and including me in many of your great game projects. Id also like to thank the people who helped me put this book together, including Mariann Barsolo, Laurene Sorensen, Pete Gaughan, Connor OBrien, Jenni Housh, Liz Welch, and Dassi Zeidel. You guys not only fixed many of my grammatical, technical, and formatting errors but also taught me a great deal about the publishing process. I also know more about Blender than I did going into this process because of you. I would also like to thank the administrators of www.lovetextures.com for their generous permission to use some of their texture files in the downloadable materials. They do a great job and everyone reading this should check them out. Lastly, Id like to thank my family for their love and support as I worked on this project, especially my mom and dad. Without you guys I wouldnt have been capable of writing this. Thanks also to my fiance, Clara, for pushing me to pursue this project and putting up with my long workdays creating art for the book.

About the Author

Christopher Totten is a Washington, D.C.based professor of game designand 3D animation. He has participated in several independent game projects as anartist, animator, and project manager. Chris haswritten articles featured on both Gamasutra and Video Game Writers. Hehas been a guest speaker at Dakota State Universitys Workshop on Integrated Designand at GDC China.

He has a masters degree in architecture with aconcentration in digital media from the Catholic University of America inWashington, D.C. Chris wants to help shape a new generation of game designers who look deeper into their designs. He works withstudents and other designers to challenge gaming conventions throughcross-disciplinary research.