- Unreal Engine 5
- Full Course
- Beginner
- Over 9 hours of training!
Unreal Engine 5 Environments Made Easy
with Joe Garth
- Unreal Engine 5
$174
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Create breathtaking scenes with simple workflows.
Master Unreal Engine 5 by building stunning environments from scratch with Joe Garth, creator of Brushify. Learn terrain sculpting, procedural foliage, atmosphere, and scene optimization through hands-on lessons which are perfect for games, films, or photoreal concept art. Includes a massive pack of free Brushify assets and Joe’s full sample scenes to study and repurpose. By the end of the course, you’ll have three complete environments for your portfolio and the skills necessary to build your own worlds with confidence.
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Joe Garth
Joe Garth is a veteran environment artist with over 15 years of industry experience. He’s contributed to cutting-edge projects at studios like Crytek and Quixel, working across cinematics, real-time graphics, and lighting. As the creator of Brushify, he now empowers artists to build stunning, game-ready worlds in Unreal Engine.
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Course Lesson Plan
Here's the low-down on everything covered in this course.
- 9 hours 14 minutesTotal Bundle Duration
- 120 VideosVideo Lectures in Bundle
- 26.59 MB of FilesDownloadable Project Files
Tools Used ?The tools listed below are used throughout the lectures of this course. Using alternatives is definitely possible depending on your proficiency, but we can only recommend using these listed softwares.
- Unreal Engine 5
Lesson 1
Canyons
In this first lesson, you will learn the basics of Unreal as you build a simple desert canyon environment. This will teach you about landscape sculpting, object placement, and lighting.
- 2 hours 23 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 30 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
- Project FilesDownloadable Project Files
Guidance
Introduction
Unreal Engine Intro
Environment Prep
Creating a New Level
Texturing the Landscape
Sculpting the Landscape
Set Dressing
Conclusion
Lesson 2
Forest
Next, Joe will show you how to build a lush forest scene. This lesson will focus on Unreal’s procedural foliage systems and dynamic lighting.
- 1 hour 39 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 25 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Initial Setup
Set Dressing
Procedural Foliage System
Procedural Content Generation (PCG)
Developing the Scene
Conclusion
Lesson 3
Mountains
Here you will focus on creating a snowy mountain scene. This lesson will teach you about atmospheric lighting, volumetrics and particle systems.
- 2 hours 20 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 25 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Initial Setup
Volumetric Fog & Clouds
Lighting
Set Dressing
Atmospherics & Particle Effects
Conclusion
Lesson 4
Finalizing
In the final lesson, Joe will teach you to maximize the impact of your work and optimize its performance. You will then render everything as images, videos, and playable executables.
- 2 hours 51 minutesTotal Lesson Duration
- 40 VideosVideo Lectures in this Lesson
Guidance
Introduction
Cinematic Theory
Cinematic Theory in Unreal
Practical Examples
Rendering & Delivery
Optimization
Compiling an .EXE
Final Thoughts
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