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Ballistic Publishing has their newest book up for pre-order, a beautiful collection of character design images compiled into ‘dartiste’.

The 208-page book features a wide range of character styles from fantasy, to game and manga-inspired creations. Kekai Kotaki shows you how he creates characters for ArenaNet’s ‘Guild Wars’ RPG along with 36 character designs from the game. Anne Pogoda shows you how to create character variations and how to rescue characters that aren’t working. Gonzalo Ordoñez shows you how to create fantasy and manga-inspired characters drawing on his inspired work on trading card franchises like ‘World of Warcraft’ and ‘Legend of the Five Rings’.

Hit their website and you can even flip through a digital version of the book.

via Ballistic Publishing: d’artiste – Character Design.

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Ballistic Publishing is in the middle of a 3-day sale, offering their latest “Ballistic Masters” book showcasing the work of Linda Bergkvist at half-off, making it only $19.50.

Ballistic Masters poster books feature art by the world’s best digital artists. Each Ballistic Masters set contains twelve full-color prints. The 11.69 x 16.5 inch prints are produced to our world-leading standard on 190gsm fine quality paper. Each print is individually finished, color-corrected, press- checked and packaged. Ballistic Masters prints are presented in a gold- embossed folio that includes details of the artist and individual works. Featuring some of the most memorable and enthralling images from the best digital artists, Ballistic Masters poster books are perfect for reference or display.

via Ballistic Publishing – Ballistic Masters – Linda Bergkvist.

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CGSociety’s publishing arm, Ballistic, is running a promotion with $10 shipping on any one book, and $2 shipping on any additional books.

Because we know how expensive shipping can be, for a limited time we’re offering $10 shipping on all titles at Ballistic Publishing worldwide. Order multiple books at once and save even more, with extra books shipping for $2 each.

This is a limited offer which ends on the 31st of August, 2009.

via CGTalk – $10 Shipping at Ballistic Publishing.

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