The document discusses different artistic styles used in computer games: photorealism, cel shading, abstraction, and exaggeration. Photorealism aims to make games look as realistic as possible, while cel shading mimics comics and cartoons. Abstraction uses minimal elements that don't represent anything specific, like in Tetris. Exaggeration is used in anime and manga games to make images more dramatic than normal games.

1. Artistic styles in Computer
Games

2. Photorealism
• Photorealism is the art style of trying to convey, objects, characters and scenes, to look as real as
possible. By taking pictures of real object and texturing them how the real object looks. There is an
argument going on between developers on, whether photorealism is needed to advance the video game
industry or isn't.
• It is mainly use din first person shooters to show detail. Photorealism games usually take more time to
create as every object is made up with polys and pixels, yet photorealism takes up more disk space, that’s
why some games come as two or even three disks.

3. Information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading
Cel Shading
• Cel shading is a type of rendering which makes 3d models look hand drawn. It is mainly used
to mimic comics or cartoons. Some games that use cel shading include;
Borderlands, Catherine, and many Dragon ball games. It is somewhat recent, appearing from
around the beginning of the twenty-first century. In addition to computer graphics, it most
commonly turns up in video games. However, the result of cel-shading has a very simplistic
feel like that of hand-drawn animation. The name comes from cels (short for celluloid), the
clear sheets of acetate which are painted on for use in traditional 2D animation, such as
Disney classics.

4. Reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction
Abstraction
• Abstraction is the art style of, less is more, this is where the art style of the game
really doesn’t mean or consent to anything is just there.
• An example of this is Tetris and arguably pacman.
• ‘ Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called
abstract; that which derives from, but does not imitate a recognizable subject is
called non-objective abstraction’

5. Exaggeration – anime & Manga
• Exaggeration art style is used in many anime or manga games. Its designed
to be over the top. Its done to give the game a more far fetched fun factor.
The images are expressed more highly than normal games. Examples
games of this are, The Naruto Game series and The Dragon ball Game
series.

6. Bibliography
• http://issuu.com/venomxshadow1/docs/differ
ent_styles_of_artistic_design_games
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading