I can't wait to see this, you rock Ryan

Can't wait for you guys to see all 200+ pages of nothing but tutorials

200+ pages

holy shit! words can't describe how awesome this sounds.

Can't wait for this. Awesome stuff everyone involved!

Wow this is pretty incredible. Thanks for all the hard work Ryan. Did you put it together in inDesign?

Gawd, this looks exciting! These things make world a better place.

Yeh, im glad Ryan contacted me for this and he bust is ass to make sure I acctualy finish my article ( and fix my english).


Thanks!

Can't wait for you guys to see all 200+ pages of nothing but tutorials

Alpha dogs, every one of you. Can't wait!

Originally Posted by b1ll

Yeh, im glad Ryan contacted me for this and he bust is ass to make sure I acctualy finish my article ( and fix my english).


Thanks!

who's this noob?

Thanks for the support guys we will do our best to make it worth the wait. I won't get to much into details because when it is released it should hopefully speak for itself. Originally I did not want to post this teaser image, I wanted to drop a bomb to you guys and hope some of the trolls fall off from information overload.

But with all of the community issues we are having these days with people complaining about how people don't give back. This should be proof to hold your tongue these pros have put in the time to give back and do read your comments. So for someone who puts the time in to help a community out to read what has been posted lately it is probably a little disheartening.

As Del pointed out this is over 200+ pages already. This is working it's way into the final leg of the process. I am no book editor and I am hack in the design area. I just hope at the end of the day the quality and product does the work and information the justice it needs. I recently finally had a chance to sit down and actually read some of the articles and man am I happy these guys put in the time to spread some information to you guys.

Stay tuned as this progresses I will post up some more info/images for you to view and discuss about.

This thing started as a 30 page magazine idea and with the support of the community secretly behind the scenes this grew into a 200+ page book.

Distro:

Digital: Ipad/KendleFire/Blackberry/Galaxys/PDF/epub/web/flashpageturn

Print: Working with companies to allow us to print it without us making a profit. Since the print company stills makes a profit we have to find a way to make this work for both parties. The print obviously would not be free but it would be at 100% cost.

I will leave you with a small sample list of people who have helped submit content for this.

Sam Yang
Jonathan Fletcher
Jon-Troy Nickel
Tamara Bakhlycheva
Ben Regimbal
Del Walker
Hai Phan
Tor Frick
Jacque Choi
Team Bam-Bu

There is more people than just these artists helping out with content but they all deserve the thanks. The Idea would have just been a pipe dream without people helping dedicate their time as well to collaborate with me.

This has been a great learning Experience and a very Fun project, knowing you guys are pumped makes it that much more worth it.


The Programs I used to answer the question:
Photoshop/Indesign

awesome dude! can't wait too see this go live

polycount bible! O_O

now i shall have the right path by the gods of mechanics gods of creatures and gods of env :O

Originally Posted by Del

Can't wait for you guys to see all 200+ pages of nothing but tutorials.

Originally Posted by Del

all 200+ pages of nothing but tutorials.

Originally Posted by Del

200+ pages

This is just mind-blowing in so many ways, not least because of the generosity of all the contributors who took their own time to help work on it.

I just want to say a massive thanks to all of you guys, it looks absolutely awesome and I must say I can't wait to check it out.

Also... major props for offering an iPad/Kindle version.

Insane! You guys rock.

Fuck yes!! This is why I love you PC Bastards!

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

polycount bible! O_O

haha, would be cool if the physical book was black-leather bound with gold leafed pages

MIND BLOWN


I can definitely say that I'm amazed. My timing to jump back onto polycount couldn't have been better. The amount of awesome info getting passed down from people with experience hasn't ever been so rich.

I for one am impressed and would like to say a huge THANK YOU to all those who who contribute to stuff like this.

Awesome! Looking forward to this!

Originally Posted by Ryan Hawkins

Digital: Ipad/KendleFire/Blackberry/Galaxys/PDF/epub/web/flashpageturn


The Programs I used to answer the question:
Photoshop/Indesign

Thanks. How straightforward is it for you to publish in so many formats? Does inDesign have all those export options built in? Does that cause formatting issues between versions?

Was fun to do something for this, I can't wait to get stuck in to the whole thing, there is really some awesome stuff in there. In fact it makes my little segment look like shit I tells ya!

200+ pages of moist learny goodness.

Ryan put a lot of time into putting this together as well as all the artists involved, so a large applause to him for putting in the time not many people would be willing to do.

He had to ask for a lot of favours and pull a lot of strings. He did terrible, unspeakable things.

Oh my holy wow. Thank you SO MUCH Ryan for putting it together and all the artists who have contributed. I can't wait!

Do you have any more information on the print version? Soft or hard cover? Type of binding, like, book or spiral? I love me some spiral-bound books, makes flattening them out on my desk to follow directions super easy.

Thank you again

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

Can't wait to see this!

saw this last night right after you posted and was too tired to understand. I am dumb.

One note about iPad publishing, although I'm sure you've probably looked into it. You could use 'iBooks Author' to get a native distro in the Apple iBooks Store.

However, I haven't used it so it may well be a piece of shit aimed at the non-technical crowd, with a restrictive format, but it could be cool if you could just 'drag n drop' all the pages in and have it publish automatically. Also, I've heard there's some DRM/Licensing caveats.

Polycount, proving itself to be more awesome every day.

awesome...sub'd