Create stylized Unreal Engine environments with Tyler Smith as you learn AAA-level planning, building, integration, and optimization techniques. Build beautiful realtime worlds with a smarter, more efficient workflow.
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A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.
Lesson 1
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.
Lesson 2
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.
Lesson 3
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.
Lesson 4
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.
Lesson 5
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.
Tyler Smith is a 3D and environment artist with deep expertise in Unreal Engine and real-time visualization. Based in Seattle, he has built standout stylized environments and tools for AAA-game pipelines, with features in 80 Level and other industry outlets. Tyler’s work merges design-led form with shader and asset-driven execution, creating immersive, production-ready worlds.
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Here's a full list of all the videos in this course.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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