Environment Art: Courses to Upgrade the Workflow

Environment Arts: Real-Time Strategy Assets

Learn how to create assets for RTS games from Tobias Forsling. 

Course details:

• Mastering scaling assets properly
• Creating your own house and game ready asset for your own project
• Learning about optimization within the engine and how to achieve certain FX's

Houdini For Games - Intro To World Creation

Find insights into the world creation procedural workflow from the Ubisoft artist, Thomas Tobin. 

What you’ll focus on:

• Principles for working within Houdini
• workflow for creating and understanding procedural assets
• Mastering your way through the Houdini interface and HDA pipeline.
• Creating your own procedural real-world generator. 

Environment Modeling For Film

Master the workflow of building and preparing assets for cinematic environments with Alan Wilson. 

Skills you’ll have at the end of the course:

• Know the principles for blueprints as they relate to building in 3D
• Know the techniques for Building Sets to Approved Camera Shots
• Have mastered your way through the Environment Modeling pipeline.
• Have created your own Hero Archetype Environmental Building from concept to completed 3D print.

Compositing in Nuke

Check out a cool Nuke compositing course from Rebelway school. 

• Nuke overview 
• Learning how to track using corner pins and how to efficiently handle multiple formats as we composite a green screen monitor replacement.
• Completely replacing the background behind the actor and using new techniques to maintain hair detail
• Introduction to CG compositing using multi-layered EXRs on top of practical footage.
• Creating a master setup that can be procedurally applied to similar shots in a sequence.
• Using the curve tool to automate animation that would otherwise have to be done by hand.
• Layering together multiple interactive FX passes for our first version of the comp.
• Using real dust and smoke elements in combination with our CG to add further realism into the scene.

Feudal Japan Warroom Environment Unreal Engine 4

Check out a cool pack with the environment made by Rebellion artist John Teodoro. 

Features: 

• High Attention to Details
• High Quality
• Unique Concepts For Assets
• Number of Unique Meshes: 30
• Collision: Yes
• LODs: Yes
• Number of Materials and Material Instances: 80
• Number of Decals: 2
• Number of Textures: 126
• Texture Resolutions: 2K
• Supported Development Platforms:
• Windows: Yes
• Mac: Yes
• Supported Engine Versions: 4.23, 4.24, 4.25+