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Artstation – Creating Materials in Unreal Engine

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Artstation – Creating Materials in Unreal Engine
English | Size: 678.2MB
Category: Tutorial


Part 1 – Introduction to the UE4 Material Editor
http://www.artstation.com/learning/courses/kLJ/introduction-to-the-ue4-material-editor
Course Description
Part 1 of 5. In this five-part series, Kem Yaralioglu breaks down his process for creating master materials, terrain shaders as well as some advanced materials in Unreal Engine. With the help of Material Functions, each shader is fully scalable, allowing the artist to build upon the foundation that they create throughout production. In this first part of a five-part series, Kem covers all of the necessary knowledge required to navigate and work with the UE4 Material Editor. [Read more…]

Artstation – Intro to Blender 2.8 for Game Art by Michael Kinsey

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Artstation – Intro to Blender 2.8 for Game Art by Michael Kinsey
English | Size: 709.6MB
Category: Tutorial


Course Description
In this course, Michael Kinsey gives a quick, working professional’s overview of Blender 2.8. With almost 10 years of Blender modelling and learning under his belt, Michael’s course is aimed at both beginner and high skill level creators who are interested in learning what Blender has to offer and getting quickly onboarded to version 2.8 with minimal downtime. Michael covers the most frequently used aspects of Blender that he touches daily in his role as a 3D Environment Artist. [Read more…]

Artstation – Hand Painting Textures Prop with Yekaterina Bourykina

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Artstation – Hand Painting Textures: Prop with Yekaterina Bourykina
English | Size: 888.8MB
Category: Tutorial


Yekaterina Bourykina demonstrates her approach to hand-painting textures on a weapon for a slick stylized look. This course systematically demonstrates the steps to properly prep, paint, modify and complete a simple asset ready for implementation into a game.
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Artstation – Painting portrait – Line to Color by Naranbaatar Ganbold

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Artstation – Painting portrait – Line to Color by Naranbaatar Ganbold
English | Size: 251.8MB
Category: Tutorial


This is final part of my portrait painting series tutorials.
In this tutorial I will share similar process of my personal and client work.
Videos are combination of real time and speed up with notes and text commentary.
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Artstation – Introduction to Gaea

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Artstation – Introduction to Gaea
English | Size: 356.6MB
Category: Tutorial


In this course, Kem Yaralioglu will cover the fundamental nodes used for terrain creation in Gaea. This is a brief overview of all of the common nodes that he uses frequently to create landscapes. This will not necessarily cover how to create a production level landscape but will cover how to use the nodes together. This course is designed to provide a solid base for navigating, understanding, and using Gaea. [Read more…]

Artstation – Things you Need To Know

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Artstation – Things you Need To Know
English | Size: 2.1GB
Category: E-books


Part 1 – Pre-Industry Artist
http://www.artstation.com/learning/courses/Av/pre-industry-artist
Course Description
In the relatively small fields of Media and Entertainment, your reputation is critical. In this course, Alex Beddows takes aim at the artists and students looking to break in to the industry and get their first job. He shares knowledge and insight that can help a prospective artist land that first job while also avoiding some pit falls that can lead to killing a career before it gets off the ground. [Read more…]

Artstation – Creating Temple Walls Using Tillable Materials

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Artstation – Creating Temple Walls Using Tillable Materials
English | Size: 773.5MB
Category: Tutorial


Part 1 of 3. In this three-part series, Tyler Smith breaks down his process for creating a stone temple architecture tillable texture. Consideration is given to shape design, materials and functional anatomy of architecture, and some different techniques using Zbrush to create forms and elements of detail. In this first part, Tyler gathers reference and begins to focus in on the design and shape arrangement of the trim sheet while blocking in the basic forms using Zbrush. [Read more…]

ArtStation – Traditional to Digital with Raphael Lacoste

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ArtStation – Traditional to Digital with Raphael Lacoste
English | Size: 638.1MB
Category: Tutorial


Learn how to get back to the basics!
Traditional drawing is like taking notes on paper, it is the best way to understand and learn, see how I practice hatching and drawing with 0.3 fineliner.
Use your sketch as a base and bring it to a next level in photoshop, applying values and colours.
Learn how to use a Palette as a reference and balance your composition.
Keep high level execution and avoid over rendering.
Brushes are from my friend Greg Rutkowski
PSD file available with layers [Read more…]

ArtStation – Style Design for Art and Entertainment with Craig Elliott

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ArtStation – Style Design for Art and Entertainment with Craig Elliott
English | Size: 609.5MB
Category: Tutorial


In this course, Craig Elliott will share from his extensive experience as an Art Director and Production Designer in Animation, as well as in Illustration and Fine Art, to explain the different reasons for, and influences on, the elements of style in illustration, fine art, and the entertainment industry. The concepts of borrowing a style, analyzing styles from existing well-known properties, as well as creating your own style for a project will be covered. Craig will also discuss how to apply your style to your project. [Read more…]

ArtStation – Texturing Mordred’s Helm with Marcus Johnston

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ArtStation – Texturing Mordred’s Helm with Marcus Johnston
English | Size: 2.2GB
Category: Tutorial


In this tutorial I will cover some of the techniques and methods I used to texture Mordred’s Helm for the Artstation ‘Legend of King Arthur’ Challenge, as well as show a brief overview of the rest of the production of the prop. [Read more…]