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Overwatch environment designer Thiago Klafke gave advice on building awesome environments in Unreal Engine 4.

We cover important things to keep in mind when you're working in a studio as a 3D artist

After the Civ. Challenge, a few people asked to see a breakdown of how the foliage was made, so... here it is! I hope people find it useful!

A large free LUTs collection in 4 categories. Go check it out!

Can Durmaz was kind to share some of his tips for creating organic vegetation and landscapes that will work even for the beginners and low-budget projects.

Diving into multiple topics on texture baking and normal adjustments.

The graph will help you set this up but it's up to you how far or subtle you push it with the pattern input, blur, slope blur, and histogram scan amounts.

Texture baking is the process of transferring details from one model to another. This link provides a great overview of all the different topics involved...

Stylized art direction tips and trick by Sam Gao, discussing one of his projects with a Ghibli style and shared several tips for environment artists.

compilation of job-winning environment art from 2019 by Kieran Goodson

Make Neon Signs in Blender with this lazy Tutorial, for lazy people by lazy people. By Ian Hubbert.

Flippednormals talking about how they have over the years learnt a bunch of 3D software. In this video they talk about their approach for learning 3D software.

These tools offer a big improvement upon the standard tools that Blender offers. And best of all they are free to use too, but make sure to support the hard work.

BlenderGuru shares this great introduction to composition, if you are looking to get started, this is a great overview of all the composition topics...

An interesting platform that holds many articles that can give you a good insight into how other workflows and more...

The Do's and Dont's about becoming a professional Environment Artist. The programs you need to learn and the Software you need to use!

Fully Narrated, Step-by-Step Tutorials, a really good source for tutorials teaching you a variation of topics.

A tutorial that focuses solely on this topic to provide clear ideas and how this can be approached. Sharing ideas and workflows...

In this video PolygonAcademy will show how he sculpts wood in Zbrush for my ArtStation challenge, this basic zbrush tutorial is designed for beginners or experienced artists.

Learn How to Create 3D Terrain Maps Free using Google Maps in this Blender Tutorial

Texel density is their to create consistancy between the texture sizes of all the assets in your scenes, Warren Marshal goes through and explains it.

Warren Marschall diving into Marmoset Toolbag 3 to dicsuss some of the great features, such as skew map painting to help with baking.

Take a look into the environment and material creation workflows of the award-winning game Control.

An extensive tutorial that covers this topic and many other common baking issues.

How to prevent your normal map from distorting in 3D Studio Max.

How to Create a Cage in 3dsMax and bake using a Cage in Xnormal.

Nordeus a mobile games studio based in Belgrade, talking about working remotely.

In this series by Mike Hill he will be discussing how he approaches the creation of artefacts and athmospheres in his worlds.

Ever wondered what it looks like behind the doors of a big studio? Ubisoft Massive Studios dropped this interesting series...

Ever wondered what the production floors of our studio look like? No need to wonder anymore!

Harry Gray delves into the process of making White Noise I was in charge of creating a Junkyard. This required a huge amount of clutter in assets...

Michał Kus will be talking about both the advantages and disadvantages for In-House versus Freelance work, it's an interesting look into the industry as a whole.

A great little introcution to lighting in Unreal Engine by Tilmann Milde, if you're looking for long form tutorials, then these are for you.

Get inspired by Aaron's work as he delves into his texturing process with Substance.

This first part of the PBR guide serves as a great little introduction to the topic of PBR rendering, especially interesting if you are also more technically minded.

An expansive collection of HDRI's for use in your lighting projects.

Color is so important, Saturation and Value and six Color Harmonies that work...

Looking for some additional help for these Normal maps? Leonardo Lezzi does a great job merging all the info together in this post

Ben Armstrong takes you through how to build your Highpoly meshes and add some interesting looking detail before taking it into Marmoset to bake.

In this short explanation about Custom Vertex Normals over on polycount is a great explainer if you are looking into more information and how they influence your bake...

Thiago Klafke made this tutorial for UDK back in the day, but it still serves as a good refresher or introduction to how to creata a modular environment

This website contains a ton of interesting tutorials that focus on creating environments with a solid focus on Level Design.

Dan Vavra will speak about our approach to storytelling in open world, how the historical accuracy and realism affects our design choices...

Some really interesting sculpting and texturing tips by Lucas Maxfield.

In this little writeup by Benjamin Chevalier covers what Art recruiters want to see in your portfolio, profile and applications.

If you are working with blender and looking for a good Addon to measure your Texel Density, look no further!

This video breaks down how you can use a few simple pieces built in 3ds max to quickly flesh out modular environments in unreal engine 4.

ACES LUT is a viewport modification for Substance Painter that will act as a closer match to Unreal Engine's rendering.

The TexTools addon is an extensive set of tools in one addon for working with UV’s and Textures, really useful for doing UV's in Blender

Daniel starts by sharing his sculpting workflow and brushes in ZBrush, followed by low poly, UVs, and map baking.

Zbrush Tips&Tricks by DamSchool, going through some really nice rock sculptin techniques.

Ayi Sanchez breaks down what makes a good texture. This is the third chapter of his blogs so make sure to check the others too...

In this tutorial Carlos Lemos will talk about normals and normal maps, avoiding math as much as possible.

This full tutorial series from Thiago Klafke is an unbroken series on how to create a full environment from scratch.

Blender tutorial for beginners, made by Andrew Price, this is a great introduction to Blender.

Ancelmo Toledo is going to give you guys a 30-minute tutorial walkthrough to demonstrate how he created his Handpainted Dagger.

Simon has an amazing archive of breakdowns of different game effects, well worth checking out!

Damian Kijowski takes you through some zbrush wood sculpting tips!

A really handy cable script by Romain Chauliac

Leonardo Iezzi goes through how to apply normal edge decals in this nice comprehensive tutorial.

School of Design provides an education in entertainment design. Our courses cover a wide range of topics such as video games, feature films, theme parks,...

This tutorial will get you up to speed with Marmoset Toolbag’s baker. From the technical to the artistic, follow along as we shed light on numerous subjects...