The document discusses and evaluates four different graphic styles - cel-shading, photorealism, exaggeration, and abstraction. For each style, it provides examples of games that use that style along with a description of how the style is implemented in each game. It also discusses the genres each style is commonly used in and the effects the styles have on players. Overall, the document analyzes how each graphic style creates different types of visual experiences for game players.

1. Graphic style
In the presentation I will be introducing each graphics style
and I will be illustrating, discussing and evaluating the
examples of the art style in at least 4 games. The graphic style
that I will be evaluating will be cellshading, photorealism, exaggeration and abstraction. I will
discuss which genres of game style might be most commonly
used in and explain the effects it has on the player. In each
graphics style I will be evaluating the specific graphical style.

2. Colour theory
• Colour theory is a method using a certain
colours combination mixed with each
other only using the colours in the colour
wheel. When it comes to computer
gaming colour theory is extremely
important to let the game standout and
be unique for example when it comes to
creating posters and covers and the
actual video game as all the colours have
to complement each other and stay
consistent. There are three colour groups
that are very important are the primary
colours, secondary colours and tertiary
colours. The three primary colours that are
the base of the colour wheel are
(red, yellow and blue) as we mix those
colours they create all the colours in the
wheel of colours.

3. Cel-shading
• Cel-shading is not a photorealistic but is a specific
design to make computer graphics to look like the
image was hand drawn. Cel-shading is specially
used to give the video game a more comic book
look to it by using a thicker out lines makes the
image look less realistic and more comic.

4. Game one-Crackdown
• Crackdown is a third
person shooter
game, which open world.
Crackdown is a very non
photorealistic game, the
game looks like the style of
a comic book or cartoon.
The game is cel-shaded
which makes the
characters look more
shadowy and mysterious.

5. Game two-Dragon ball z
•
The game is a video game
for the PlayStation 3 and
Xbox 360 consoles based on
the anime and manga
series Dragon Ball. The game
resembles real drawn
animations. The game
recreates a style of tradition
2D Series. The game is a very
good artistic design which
creates a very realistic
game that’s hand drawn.

6. Game three-The Fairly
Odd Parents
• The game is a released
for the Game Boy
Advance, Nintendo
GameCube, PlayStation
2, Xbox, and the PC in
2003. It is based on the
famous Nickelodeon
cartoon show, The Fairly
Odd Parents. The game
looks very hand drawn as
they characters look very
simple to draw. The game
uses simple colours, and
imitates the style of a
cartoon game. The game
gives the impression that
your playing in a cartoon.

7. The genre and effects of
cel-shading
• The genre of game this style might be most
commonly used in the type of game that are
aimed for young people and comic games. The
effects that cel-shading has on the player is that it
makes the player feel as if they were apart of the
game. The game gives them that cartoony
experience and the style was used for many games
as it was new and fresh.

8. Evaluation
• Cel-shading is a very difficult technique that is very
well used in games. Cel-shading has a very nonrealistic sense to it as it looks very hand drawn. Celshading is seen as very childish art style as it
contains mostly things that are anime or cartoon.

9. Photorealism
• Photorealism is a genre that is based on how
painting is using cameras and photographs. This
creates a photogenic image, the images look very
real however they are difficult to be recognised on
a photograph. The graphics is their to make
something for example the environment to look
very realistic and real.

10. Game one- Modern
warfare- call a duty .
• The game is a first-person
shooter video game
developed by Infinity Ward
and published by Activision
for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
and Microsoft Windows. The
game is very photorealistic
giving that feeling that the
game is real. Advance
technology is used in the
game to make the game
look as real as it can, to
give the user that feeling of
being in the game when
playing. For example, the
lighting etc.

11. Game two-Crysis
• The game is a firstperson shooter video
game developed by
Crytek, published by
Electronic Arts for
Microsoft Windows
and released in
November 2007. the
game is very realistic
as it has the right
colours and light and
its has highly detailed
surroundings. The
game is very clear, this
gives the user feeling
that the game is real.

12. Game three- Battlefield
• The game is a first-person
shooter video game
developed by EA Digital
Illusions CE and published by
Electronic Arts. The game
renders graphics in real time as
its first person shooter. The
game looks like something will
appear to be on a
photographic. The images in
the game looks really real that
they are hard to recognise
from photograph

13. The genre and effects of
photorealism
• The style can be any genre from action adventure
to horror. The majority of a photorealism game are
first person shooter. The effects that the game has
on the player is that it looks so real for them and its
something that people would do in the real world
but on a game.

14. Evaluation
• Photorealism is liked technique that is very realistic
and real. It makes the audience feel like they are
actually in the game when playing. The game
creates a very photogenic image that is very well
designed.

15. Exaggeration
• Exaggeration is something that is completely
something different to what you would normally
expect. Exaggeration is things that are very over the
top for example the character is not human and is
something strangely different. Exaggeration is used
to make something look more better than it actually
is.

16. Game one-Battle stadiumD.O.N
• The game is a
Japanese fighting
game for the
GameCube and
PlayStation 2
featuring
characters from the
three popular
manga series. The
game is over
exaggerate a lot
especially with the
environment there
in. for example the
levels is a fire
background. The
game is very similar
in art in cartoon.

17. Game two- Final Fantasy
• The game is a roleplaying video game
developed by Square
as the seventh
instalment in the Final
Fantasy series. The
game is very well over
exaggerated you can
tell by the characters
as the game is very
similar to anime.

18. Game three-Halo
• The game is first
person shooter that’s
released for the Xbox
video game console.
The game is very over
exaggerated and the
art style is where the
artist exaggerates
many things within
the game. The games
art style is used for
anime and manga
typically.

19. The genre and effects of
exaggeration
•
The game can be on anime which the art style
focuses on using over the top graphics. The amount
of the things are most very much exaggerated. The
effects that exaggeration has on the player Is that
the game takes it to the next level and makes the
game seem to good.

20. Evaluation
I learnt that exaggeration is also a very well liked art
style as those who watch shows that anime series love
playing the game. This gives them the feeling of living
a anime life and running away from the real world out
here.

21. Abstraction
• Abstraction is an art style that doesn't want to be
realistic, it wants to stand out, be unique. The work
created in abstract may resemble some things but
will have a lot of differences to it or maybe have a
lot of strange things in the game.

22. Game one- Botanicula
• The game is a is a pointand-click adventure
game developed by
Amanita Design. That’s
released for Microsoft
Windows, OS X and
Linux. In the game there
are 5 main characters
like a:
leaf, feather, mushroom
, poppy seed and a
twig. The art style of the
game is unusual, and
the black creature on
the right is unlike
anything you've seen.
This is very abstracted as
it stands out very well
and doesn’t look real
what’s so ever.

23. Game two- Geometry
wars
• The game is a
minigame, that’s
updated version of
the game, Geometry
Wars: Retro Evolved, is
available for
download on the
Xbox 360 via Xbox Live
Arcade. In the game
nothing is at all
human, or remotely
anything except
collective of shapes.
The game is so unreal
and it stand out from
the crowd so much.

24. Game three- The
unfinished swan
• The game is a by made by
Giant Sparrow for the
PlayStation 3 and which is
distributed on the
PlayStation Network. The
game starts with a fully
white space, the game is
very unrealistic and over
exaggerated as the
colours black and white
that are mostly used. The
game is based on the
prototype tech demo and
featured splatting gobs of
black paint in an
otherwise white world.

25. The genre and effects of
abstraction
• The graphical style can appear on artistic, puzzle
and creative game. The effects on the player is that
the game is really easy however it can get hard
when it comes to telling what things are.

26. Evaluation
• I’ve learnt that abstraction games are the
complete opposite to photorealistic as its very
unrealistic and very different. I’ve learnt that
abstract need stand out to the crowd and be very
unique.