Course Lesson Plan

Here’s the low-down on everything covered in this course.

6 hrs & 13 mins
82 Lectures
1.05 GB of Files

Tools Used

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zbrush alt inv
maya
unreal

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Lesson 1

Understanding Game Art

To begin, you will cover several of the most important steps relating to any Unreal project. Tyler will show you how to budget your time and effort, identifying exactly which assets need to be created. This will save you from doing any unnecessary work down the line. After this, you will gather references and sculpt the base rock that will be used in your scene.

1 hr & 36 mins
19 Lectures
Project Files
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Lesson 2

Creating Foliage

You will now work on building a foliage card for use in Unreal. Tyler will take you through the process of modeling all sorts of greenery with various techniques. You will then learn about texture baking, and Tyler will help you squash any bugs that appear in this stage to prevent problems further down the line.

1 hr & 6 mins
12 Lectures
Project Files
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Lesson 3

Preparing for Unreal

Now you’ll create your texture maps for rocks and foliage. Tyler will demonstrate how light interacts with different types of polygons, and how you can optimize your forms to catch light in a dynamic way. Lastly, you will arrange all your assets and get them finalized for use in Unreal.

38 mins
11 Lectures
Project Files
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Lesson 4

Unreal Basics

Welcome to Unreal. In this lesson, you will be importing everything you’ve created so far and getting it set up inside Unreal Engine. You’ll be configuring a master material for your rocks, and another for your foliage. These will be very important when populating your scene in the next lesson.

1 hr & 23 mins
18 Lectures
Project Files
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Lesson 5

Creating an Environment

In this lesson, you’ll take all the pieces you’ve been building and assemble them into a cohesive scene. Tyler will guide you through each step of the process, from rock and foliage placement to lighting and color balance. You’ll also see how the same exact assets can be used in a myriad of ways, creating completely different scenes by tweaking just a few settings. When you’ve completed this lesson, you will have a finished environment.

1 hr & 27 mins
22 Lectures

Homework can be cool.

Check out some of the amazing work Stylized Environments in Unreal students have created by doing their homework.

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rock phase 1

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jakeopp env 01

jakeopp homework

plain rock

assets 4

rock cliff 02 0

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