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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Moss Height Blend Controls
Discover how to create a height blend control for your vertex paint materials. This control will enable you to paint moss onto castle walls with precision, achieving a realistic and immersive environment. This clip is from the chapter...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Vertex Color Material Setup
Learn how to create a vertex color material that allows you to paint additional details, such as moss or dirt, directly onto your 3D assets. This video will guide you through setting up the material graph, assigning vertex color data,...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - PBR Material Cleanup
This video covers essential practices for organizing and maintaining a clean and efficient material workflow. Learn how to properly name materials, instances, and folders, as well as optimize materials for better performance within...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - PBR Water Opacity Setup
Explore the creation of a PBR water material with adjustable opacity settings. Learn how to use custom-made water textures, create translucent materials, and fine-tune parameters to achieve the desired appearance of water in your scene....
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Reusing Material Instances
Discover the power of reusing material instances across different objects in your scene. This video will show you how to optimize your workflow and maintain project organization by leveraging the flexibility of material instances. This...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Material Instance Basics
In this video, we will explore the fundamentals of material instances. Learn how to create and edit material instances, allowing you to efficiently make changes to multiple objects that share the same material, streamlining your...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - PBR Material Setup
Learn the fundamentals of creating a basic PBR material shader in Unreal Engine 5. With this knowledge, you will be able to construct realistic-looking surfaces that accurately simulate light interaction, elevating the visual quality of...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Introduction to Material Graph
Gain a solid understanding of UE5's material graph and its capabilities. This video will introduce you to the process of creating, editing, and applying materials to objects in your scene, giving you the creative freedom to bring your...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Importing Assets
Discover the process of importing FBX meshes and various other assets into Unreal Engine 5. Through hands-on practice, you will learn how to add basic props such as chairs, tables, barrels, and buckets to enhance your scene's visual...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Resource Pack and UI Introduction
In this video, we will guide you through downloading and organizing the resource pack specifically designed for this course. Additionally, we will provide an overview of Unreal Engine 5's user interface, highlighting the essential panels...
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Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp - Welcome to the Course
This clip is from the chapter "Introduction" of the series "Creating Stunning Environments in Unreal Engine 5 - A Game Artist Bootcamp".In this section, we will provide an overview of the course and its objectives. Get ready to dive into...
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Lighting
Students will learn various lighting techniques for a variety of cinematic uses.
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Khan Academy: Art of Lighting Overview (Video)
This video [2:45] provides an overview of lighting techniques used in Pixar films.
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Khan Academy: Color Scripts (Video)
This video [7:06] is an introduction to color scripts. A color script is a snapshot of the whole movie with a frame painted from each scene. Through the color script, you get an idea for how each story moment will be lit, and its overall...
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Khan Academy: Character Lighting (Video)
This video [6:38] focuses on the lighting of characters in Pixar films. Different types of lighting bring the characters to life; they show the different characters' emotions and their relationships.
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Khan Academy: Shot Lighting
This video [6:21] provides an introduction to shot lighting. In shot lighting we are adjusting the lights to support the individual shot. One of the goals of shot lighting is to direct the viewer's attention, to get them to look where we...
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Khan Academy: Master Lighting (Video)
This video [6:20] focuses on how Pixar's approach to master lighting. When a color script is done for the entire film, we look closer at individual scenes to further develop how we are going to light them. As a first step, a few shots...
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Khan Academy: Getting to Know Kim White
This video [5:49] focuses on getting to know Kim White, Director of Photography for lighting for Pixar films.