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Unity Game Dev: Art

  • Number of Courses12 courses
  • Duration42 hours
  • Skill IQ available Skill IQ
  • Expanded

Game development contains a broad range of disciplines. Now that you are familiar with the Unity Game Engine, you’re going to need art assets to deliver the vision of your next brilliant game. Unity Game Art will take you through the asset creation pipeline and get you comfortable in designing your character concepts, modeling from those concepts, creating your game-ready mesh and finally texturing the character. This path will also take you through similar pipelines in regards to creating props and environment assets. Once you have the character and props, you will learn the basics of bringing these characters to life through rigging and animation. At the end of this path, you will feel comfortable with the game development art pipeline, the various tools involved, and be ready to take your game development to the next level.

Courses in this path

Beginner

Learn the principles of creating stunning concept pieces for game environments and hero characters. This group of courses will get you comfortable working with concept art and have you move on to modeling and texturing game environments.

Game Character Concept Design Fundamentals

  • by David Kegg
  • 1h 40m Duration
  •  (72)

Game Environment Concept Design

  • by Alex Stead
  • 3h 26m Duration
  •  (33)

Creating Game Environments in Unity and Maya

  • by Dan John Cox
  • 2h 28m Duration
  •  (23)

Creating Game Environment Textures with Substance Suite

  • by Dan John Cox
  • 3h 25m Duration
  •  (22)

Intermediate

In this group of courses you will focus on referencing the concept art to model game props and game characters. Next, you will retopologize and texture the hero character to practice skills in the game development pipeline.

Game Prop Modeling Fundamentals

  • by Justin Marshall
  • 3h 9m Duration
  •  (13)

Game Prop Texturing Fundamentals

  • by Dan John Cox
  • 4h 2m Duration
  •  (14)

Game Character Sculpting in ZBrush

  • by Justin Marshall
  • 4h 37m Duration
  •  (44)

Retopologizing Game Characters in Maya

  • by Justin Marshall
  • 2h 47m Duration
  •  (25)

UV Mapping Game Characters in Maya

  • by Eddie Russell
  • 3h 23m Duration
  •  (29)

Texturing Game Characters in Substance Painter

  • by Eddie Russell
  • 4h 44m Duration
  •  (33)

Advanced

Learn how to rig and animate a hero character in Maya and Unity in a game development pipeline.

Game Character Rigging Fundamentals

  • by Winston Powell
  • 5h 38m Duration
  •  (73)

Game Character Animation in Unity and Maya

  • by Mark Butler
  • 2h 45m Duration
  •  (24)

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David Kegg
David Kegg
David Kegg is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based out of Boston, Massachusettes. I've worked for some of the gaming industries biggest studios and publishing houses throughout my career, including Blizzard Entertainment, Blur Studios, Riot Games, Seismic Games, Fantasy Flight Games and many others. Previously, I've also worked in-house at Shield Break Studios as the lead concept artist on the studio's first project, Bierzerkers. I love working with other creatives and art directo... more
Alex Stead
Alex Stead
Alex Stead is a freelance storyboard artist and concept illustrator working in London. He began his career storyboarding for the BBC, and after a while spread his wings into the wider fields of games, music video, advertising, publishing and experiential marketing. He works for some of the biggest and smallest creative and production agencies in London, producing everything from book covers to character designs to concepts for flagship retail stores. In his spare time, he is writing and illustra... more
Dan John Cox
Dan John Cox
Dan John Cox has worked in the games industry for 8 years as both an environmental, concept, and character artist. He has worked at Pseudo Interactive, Frozen North Productions, Bedlam Games, Ubisoft Toronto, and Capybara Games in a variety of capacities. He has also taught Game Art at Seneca College in Toronto for 8 years and has assisted in bringing many new artists into the workforce. He's spoken at events such as GamerCamp, IGDA, Creativa Mexico, GameConnection Paris, and GDC 2014 and 2015.
Justin Marshall
Justin Marshall
Justin thrives as a lead modeling author at Pluralsight. Growing up, Justin found a deep interest for the computer graphics industry after watching movies like Jurassic Park, Toy Story, and The Abyss. His ambition would lead him to work at Sony Imageworks in Los Angeles on movies like Monster House and Surf's Up. Justin has also had numerous articles, tutorials, and images published in 3D World and 3D Artist. As an author, Justin enjoys collaborating with fellow authors, especially on project... more
Eddie Russell
Eddie Russell
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more
Winston Powell
Winston Powell
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Mark Butler
Mark Butler
Mark has over 15 years professional experience animating and creating 3D assets in Maya, MotionBuilder, and other CGI software for real-time broadcast and video games. His focus is on character animation, rigging, and motion capture for body, face, and hands. Mark is a pioneer in real-time live performance animation and avatars, using markerless motion capture as well as wireless inertial body suits and gloves. Mark was a part of the Emmy-award winning animation team on NBC’s “Heroes”, and ... more

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