In this seven-part course, Emiel Sleegers covers the creation of an environment asset, in this case a fire hydrant, for use in AAA games, in real time. In this first part he covers reference gathering and how he will approach creating the asset in the series, before he demonstrates the creation of the high poly model using 3DsMax.

This series is a video companion to the article "ZBrush 4R8 New Features: Sci-Fi Energy Gun", featured in InCG Magazine issue #32, compiled from my twitch stream at www.twitch.tv/pavmike . We break down the creation process of this weapon, from blockout to the textured in game asset, utilizing a number of new features found in ZBrush 4r8. 41 videos, almost 3.5 hours of content!

Gumroad – 3dEx – Tutorial Collection – 05 | Contains Many Tutorials on creating Stylized Assets. Software used in Tutorials: Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer

In this two-part series, Javier Benitez breaks down coming up with simple yet effective pieces to develop a strong portfolio quickly, without the need to commit to large scenes or complex assets. In this first part, Javier covers the fundamentals of his modeling and texture process.

In this course, we will build a professional apocalyptic game environment from scratch using 3ds Max, Substance Painter and Unreal. We will start everything from scratch, from looking at references, looking at some concept art, and start applying it onto our environment. First, we will start by making small blockout of our scene and create the assets that we are going to need, how we are going to lay them out in the environment, then we are

Lennard Claussen is back with another incredible hard surface project. This time he walks you through his process for how to create a mechanical dog using Maya, Substance Painter, and Photoshop. Lennard shares his personal scripts as well as a handful of tools that he uses to speed up his workflow when creating complex high poly meshes

Watch as Lead Environment Artist at Ubisoft, Casper Wermuth create highly realistic volcanic rocks for Unreal using a combo workflow of Zbrush, Substance Designer, and Substance Painter. His techniques can be applied to any type of rock project and allows for scaling objects without messing up the texel density. His process covers modelling in Zbrush, creating UVs using 3d Coat, Creating tiling textures in Substance Designer, mask creation in

Gumroad – 3dEx – Tutorial Collection – 03 | Contains Many Tutorials on creating Stylized Assets. Software used in Tutorials: Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer

Gumroad – 3dEx – Tutorial Collection – 02 | Contains Many Tutorials on creating Stylized Assets. Software used in Tutorials: Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer | Most videos contain no Commentary.

Learning how to model intricate and decorative shapes is a must for the environment artist, especially those working or aspiring to work on fantasy or sci-fi projects. This tutorial takes you through some great workflows on how to create super detailed shapes utilizing Maya, Substance Designer and Substance Painter to get incredible results.