Intermediate

Design architecture that tells a story with concept designer Yury Ostapchuck. Using a 1960s spy hideout as a starting point, Yury will help you turn a brief into a distinct architectural identity that reveals something about the person who lives there. In this Session, you’ll explore how references can shape your ideas, how different interpretations lead to different designs, and how exterior forms and interior details work together to communicate a story. After just a few hours, you'll be giving your environments personality and meaning.

Learn to design unique fantasy weapons quickly with concept artist Arsen Asyrankulov. Beginning with a series of 2D sketches, Arsen demonstrates multiple techniques for translating flat designs into rough ZBrush models, refining your sculpt with intricate details, and rounding things off with hand-painted textures. In just a few hours, you’ll learn to carry the energy of initial sketches into richly realized organic designs of your own.

Explore the world of buildings, structures, and hard-surface design through traditional ink techniques with concept artist Aaron Limonick. You’ll learn how to break down architectural styles from across the globe into clear shapes, expressive linework, and organized values, making complex forms easier to draw with confidence. Aaron guides you through full exterior sketches and detailed interior scenes, teaching you how to render materials, articulate edges, and balance precision with personality. By the end, you’ll have several sketches of architecture and a sharper eye for proportion, perspective, and structural clarity. This course also comes with a materials guide covering the pens, paper, and tools Aaron recommends.

Learn to capture the scale, rhythm, and texture of the natural world using traditional ink techniques. Concept artist Aaron Limonick shows you how to break complex environments into simple shapes and graphic clusters, making trees, rocks, atmospherics, and terrain easier to draw with clarity and expression. Each chapter builds toward stronger compositions, teaching you how to use texture, silhouette, shape language, and contrast to create landscapes that feel expansive and alive. By the end, you’ll have a full set of finished landscape sketches and the confidence to step outside and draw anything you see. This course also comes with a materials guide covering the pens, paper, and tools Aaron recommends.

Learn to design and animate incredible, film-ready UI for your next project with Kris Brady's comprehensive new course. With 20 years of industry experience, Kris guides you through every stage of the process, from rough sketches to full-on animation and compositing, using techniques from high-budget film productions. Master the art of creating stunning interfaces that seamlessly integrate into any film project, and take your design skills to the next level.

Don't just draft your visions - bring them to life. Under acclaimed illustrator KleinerHai's expert guidance, you'll learn to turn your sketches into captivating concept paintings and illustrations. Covering characters, creatures, buildings, props, environments, and everything in between, this course will teach you to paint every corner of your imagined world. Every brushstroke you create will add depth, narrative, and wonder to your creative vision.

Create eye-popping visuals straight out of the future under the guidance of industry-leader Toros Kose. Learn Toros's process for approaching projects, designing assets, and compiling everything together into compelling styleframes with animation. This Director’s Cut edition includes an updated course structure, extra homework assignments, higher quality videos, over 4 hours of unedited process recordings, and more.

Learn how to create real-time concept art in Unreal Engine 5 with Ellie Cooper. From sculpting hero assets in ZBrush, to assembling a full scene in Unreal Engine 5, and finishing with final paintovers and delivery, Ellie will guide you through her comprehensive process, using the industry's most up-to-date workflows for concept art creation.

Learn cutting-edge techniques for creating real-time visual effects in Unreal Engine from industry-leading artist Tyler Smith. With a fully constructed sandbox level included in your purchase, you'll craft stunning and dynamic effects to enhance your game worlds, exploring unique methods for generating fire, water, snow, wind, and more.

A deep-dive session where director Sava Zivkovic walks through his evolution from CG artist to filmmaker, showing how personal work, collaboration, conferences, and studio experience shaped his approach. He breaks down his Unreal Engine workflow, mocap pipeline, editing, sound, and release strategy, emphasizing the importance of developing your own voice and story.

Learn modern concept art techniques from one of the industry's leading artists. AAA video game concept artist Romain Jouandeau will teach you everything you need to know to create a series of dynamic concept art keyframes using Blender and Photoshop in his unique style.

In the very first Session from Learn Squared, we're excited to invite Naughty Dog lead concept artist Aaron Limonick to the stage, where he will do a live demonstration of his creative process and stick around to answer an hour of audience Q and A!

Your concept art will never be the same. Industry veteran Jan Urschel is here to show you how to build major production assets following a professional brief. By covering architecture, design and visualization, learn to approach your concept art from a theoretical and technical standpoint. With Jan's help, learn how to be a DOP of your own creations.

Take a more artistic approach to architectural concept design. Follow along as award-winning designer/director Maxim Zhestkov reveal all the tools in his kit. Learn techniques in Cinema 4D, Arnold Renderer, and Photoshop to create your very own set of breathtaking images, including an immersive 360° render.