Introduction to Being a 3D Prop Artist

Introduction to Being a 3D Prop Artist

Learn what it is like to be a prop artist and how a professional prop artist works when creating assets for games & cinematics. In this course you will get an in-depth overview on what it is like to be a prop artist, what your main responsibilities are and key focus points to becoming a prop artist. after this you will learn from start to finish how to create a high quality game asset including everything from Modeling, UV-Unwrapping, Texturing, Rendering and more.

3DS MAX, SUBSTANCE, MARMOSET TOOLBAG & UNREAL

This course will cover the complete process from start to finish on how to create high quality props for games. Some of the main topics we will cover are as followed

• Detailed introduction with a presentation on what it is like to be a prop artist along with important knowledge.
• Gathering references and creating blockout props.
• High to Low poly & Weighted Normals Workflows.
• UV-Unwrapping and Baking textures.
• Creating high-quality textures using Substance Painter.
• Setting up assets correctly in Unreal Engine

We will also cover a lot more information in-between these main topics.

The general takeaway of this course is that at the end, you will have the knowledge on how to create exactly what you see in the images, and you can apply this knowledge to almost any type of asset.

16+ HOURS!

This course contains over 16+ hours of content – You can follow along with every single step – This course has been done 100% in real-time with narration except for a few timelapses for very repetitive tasks.

This course has been divided up into easy-to-understand chapters. 

The goal if this course is to teach you what it is like to be a prop artist, Various fundamentals that you should know and we will give you a detailed overview on how to create a high quality 3D asset while teaching you all the techniques you should know if you want to become a prop artist.

This course will start with a detailed powerpoint presentation in which we will do an introduction to who I am, discuss the main responsibilities of a prop artist, what the day of a prop artist looks like, some key focus points in becoming a prop artist, how to craft a good portfolio and various workflow overviews.

After this we will go over in detail and in real-time on how to create a high quality, game ready 3d asset of a Japanese vending machine. During this time we will cover various techniques from gathering references, creating blockouts, doing high to low poly modeling, doing weighted normals modeling, baking and creating unique high quality textures and many more techniques.

The way that you should think about it is that at the end of this course you will be able to create exactly what you see in this trailer. And you can apply these techniques to any type of 3D asset.

SKILL LEVEL
This game art tutorial is considered an beginner to intermediate course and we require students to have some familiarity with a 3d Modeling tools, and Substance Painter – Everything in this tutorial will be explained in detail but we will not be going over the very basics of the software mentioned below as this is not an introduction to individual software's.

TOOLS USED

• 3DS Max (we used universal techniques so other modeling programs are also fine)
• Substance Painter
• Marmoset Toolbag 5 (optional)
• Rizom UV (optional)
• Unreal Engine (optional)

Please note that most techniques used are universal, so they can be replicated in almost any 3D software like Maya & 3DS Max.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Emiel Sleegers is a lead environment artist and owner of FastTrack Tutorials. He’s worked on games like The Division 2 + DLC at Ubisoft, Forza Horizon 3 at Playground Games, and as a Freelancer on multiple projects as an Environment Artist and Material Artist. Next to this he is also the founder of ScansMatter - a 3D outsourcing studio working for various big-name clients.

SOURCE FILES
All Source Files are included in this course.

CHAPTER SORTING
There’s a total of 39 videos split into easy-to-digest chapters.
All the videos will have logical naming and are numbered to make it easy to find exactly the ones you want to follow.

SUBTITLES
Subtitles are offered for this tutorial in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
Please note the subtitles are auto generated and might not always be 100% accurate.

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