Learn Architectural Design & Animation With Blender-2026

In this course, you will learn how a professional AAA lighting artist approaches lighting in Unreal Engine 5 to create realistic mood, atmosphere, and visually striking environments. Drawing from real production workflows, this course breaks down both fundamental lighting theory and advanced real-time lighting techniques, helping students overcome common struggles such as flat lighting, poor exposure, weak composition, and inconsistent mood. Through step-by-step demonstrations, you’ll learn how to think critically about lighting decisions—from camera and exposure settings to large-scale global illumination using Lumen. The course emphasizes practical problem-solving and teaches you how to confidently light props, vehicles, characters, and massive open-world environments for portfolio-ready results.

This course is designed to teach students how a professional environment artist creates a complete game-ready environment from start to finish. Drawing from real production workflows, I guide students step by step through the creation of a medieval town environment, explaining not only how to do things, but why they are done this way in a professional context. Many students struggle with knowing where to start, how to plan an environment, how to create reusable modular assets, or how to bring everything together inside a game engine. This course solves those problems by following a clear, structured, and production-proven workflow. You will learn how to plan an environment, create clean blockouts, build modular assets, sculpt and texture them, and finally assemble, light, and polish a complete scene in Unreal Engine 5 using modern tools such as Nanite and Lumen.

This course is designed to help artists understand and master the creation of procedural art tools using Blender Geometry Nodes, with a strong focus on real production workflows. Through step-by-step, real-time demonstrations, I guide students from the fundamentals of Geometry Nodes to building advanced, reusable tools for environment creation. The course is structured around solving common problems faced by environment artists: repetitive tasks, slow iteration, and lack of procedural control. By breaking down complex node networks into clear and logical steps, students learn why each technique works, not just how to replicate it. In addition, the course demonstrates how to transfer these procedural tools from Blender to Unreal Engine using Altermesh, allowing artists to keep their workflows flexible and efficient across software. By the end, students will confidently create, customize, and deploy their own tools for faster environment production.

This course is designed to help game artists overcome one of the most common challenges in environment creation: building large-scale, believable worlds without sacrificing performance or production time. Based on real industry workflows, this course walks students through the complete process of creating mid-range and vista assets such as mountains, billboard vegetation, and optimized buildings for games. Each concept is explained step by step, with a strong focus on practical problem-solving, efficient workflows, and real-time optimization. Rather than relying on overly complex techniques, the course breaks down professional methods into clear, manageable steps that individual artists can realistically apply to their own projects. By the end of the course, students will be able to confidently create and place optimized vista assets in Unreal Engine 5.

This course is designed to help beginners and intermediate learners master interior 3D design using Blender in a clear, practical, and structured way. Through years of working with Blender and teaching students, I’ve noticed that many learners struggle with the same problems: understanding Blender’s interface, creating clean 3D models, applying realistic materials, lighting scenes correctly, and producing professional renders and animations. This course directly addresses those challenges step by step. You will learn by building a complete interior project from scratch, focusing on real-world workflows used in professional interior visualization. Each concept is explained simply, with practical demonstrations, so you can apply what you learn immediately and gain confidence as you progress.

This course is designed to help students overcome the most common frustrations when learning AutoCAD, such as understanding the interface, drawing accurately, managing layers, and producing clean, professional drawings. With several years of professional experience in the design and drafting industry, I have guided many beginners step by step, breaking down complex AutoCAD concepts into simple, practical, and easy-to-follow workflows. Instead of just explaining tools, I show students how and why each command is used in real-world projects. The course focuses on hands-on learning through real projects, allowing students to immediately apply what they learn. Every lesson is structured to build confidence, improve precision, and develop professional drafting habits used in engineering, architectural, and product design environments.

This course provides an in-depth, real-world look at how a professional environment artist creates a high-quality Japanese-style game environment from start to finish. Drawing from industry experience on AAA and cinematic projects, the course focuses on solving the real problems students face when building environments: poor planning, inefficient assets, low performance, and lack of visual cohesion. Every step is demonstrated clearly and logically, with explanations focused on why decisions are made, not just how. Students are guided through the complete workflow—from project planning and blockout to advanced materials, Nanite-ready assets, lighting, foliage, and final optimization—using Unreal Engine 5 and industry-standard tools. The course is taught almost entirely in real time, allowing learners to follow along confidently and apply the same techniques to their own projects.

Creating game environments for mobile and VR comes with unique challenges: strict performance limits, optimization constraints, and the need to maintain strong visual quality. In this course, I guide you step by step through a complete professional workflow used in real mobile and VR productions. Drawing from industry experience in mobile and VR game development, I focus on solving the most common problems students face: inefficient assets, poor performance, unclear pipelines, and lack of structure when building environments. You will learn not only what to do, but why each decision is made, so you can confidently apply these techniques to your own projects. This course is fully practical, with no time-lapses, and shows the entire process from blockout to final polish in Unreal Engine.

This course is designed to help students master the complete workflow of creating destroyed game assets, from early planning to final in-engine presentation. Based on real AAA production experience, I guide students step by step through each phase, explaining not only how things are done, but why they are done that way. Throughout the course, common student challenges—such as poor asset planning, non-modular workflows, unrealistic destruction, or scene assembly issues—are addressed with practical solutions and proven techniques. The lessons are structured to be clear, logical, and production-oriented, allowing students to confidently apply what they learn to their own projects. By the end of the course, students will be able to independently create game-ready destroyed assets and environments with a strong artistic and technical foundation.

This course is a complete, hands-on guide to creating high-quality game foliage quickly and efficiently, following the real-world workflow of a professional environment artist. Drawing from industry production experience, this course focuses on solving the most common problems students face when creating foliage: knowing where to start, choosing the right techniques, optimizing assets for real-time use, and achieving visually convincing results without unnecessary complexity. Every step is demonstrated clearly and practically, allowing you to follow along and apply the same methods to your own projects. You will learn how to create a wide variety of foliage assets—such as ivy, grass, shrubs, aquatic plants, trees, and custom leaves—and how to properly set them up inside Unreal Engine 5. The course is recorded mostly in real time, ensuring you gain a realistic understanding of both the creative and technical decisions involved in professional foliage production. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently create, optimize, and place foliage assets suitable for games and cinematic environments.

This course is designed to help intermediate artists understand how a professional character artist approaches the creation of a stylized sci-fi character for games. Many students struggle with knowing where to start, how to properly block out anatomy, or how to turn rough shapes into clean, production-ready high-poly models. In this course, I guide you through the entire workflow step by step, explaining not only what to do, but why each decision is made. Everything is recorded in real time, without skipping steps, so you can follow along at your own pace. By the end of the course, you will confidently understand how to build anatomy, sculpt stylized clothing and armor, refine hard-surface elements in ZBrush, and create a complete high-poly character and weapon ready for the next production stage.

Learn how a professional AAA environment artist creates a complete post-apocalyptic game environment from start to finish using an industry-proven workflow. In this course, you will follow a step-by-step, production-ready process used in real game studios. I focus on explaining why each decision is made, not just how, helping students overcome common challenges such as poor composition, unrealistic materials, inefficient modular assets, and unconvincing lighting. You will learn how to plan an environment, build modular assets, create high-quality materials, add decals and foliage, and assemble everything into a polished, portfolio-ready scene inside Unreal Engine 5. Every step is clearly explained, with real-time demonstrations and practical techniques you can immediately apply to your own projects. This course is designed to help students move from technical execution to artistic decision-making, giving them the confidence to build believable game environments independently.

Creating large-scale, high-quality game environments can feel overwhelming without a clear professional workflow. In this course, you’ll learn how a senior AAA environment artist approaches the creation of a complete large-scale environment, from the very first reference images to the final polished scene inside Unreal Engine 5. With over 32.5 hours of real-world production footage, I guide you step by step through the exact techniques used in professional game studios. We start with reference analysis and planning, move into modular blockout creation, and progressively transform simple geometry into fully realized final assets. Every decision is explained in detail, including why certain techniques are used and how to avoid common mistakes. You’ll follow a complete environment creation pipeline using Maya, ZBrush, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen, learning not just tools, but a production-ready mindset that can be applied to almost any type of game environment.

In this course, you will learn how a professional environment artist creates fast, efficient, and game-ready foliage for real-time projects. Drawing from real production experience on AAA and freelance projects, this course focuses on clear, step-by-step workflows that solve the most common problems students face when creating foliage for games: poor performance, inconsistent quality, and unclear pipelines. You’ll follow the entire foliage creation process, from planning and texture collection to asset creation, material setup, optimization, and final placement in Unreal Engine 5. Every step is explained in detail and recorded mostly in real time, making it easy to understand and apply directly to your own projects. By the end of this course, you’ll feel confident creating optimized foliage assets that are ready to be used in real-time game environments.

This course teaches the complete workflow of 3D environment creation for games, from modeling and texturing assets to building modular environments in Unreal Engine 5. Students will learn how professional environment art pipelines work, create procedural materials, assemble a small level, and finalize it with lighting and post-processing. The course focuses on real production techniques that can be applied to many types of real-time 3D environments.

This course teaches the complete professional workflow for creating high-quality 3D environments using Blender, 3ds Max or Maya, and Unreal Engine 5. Designed for beginners, it guides students step by step through the entire process, from reference gathering and project organization to blockout, modular asset creation, sculpting, UVs, baking, texturing, lighting, and final scene polish. Students will learn industry-standard techniques used in game development, including procedural material creation with Substance Designer, texturing with Substance Painter, vegetation creation with SpeedTree, and environment assembly inside Unreal Engine 5. By the end of the course, students will have a fully finished environment and portfolio-ready screenshots and videos.

This in-depth Unreal Engine 5 course teaches how to quickly create professional large-scale open-world environments using marketplace assets. It covers custom landscape creation with World Creator, environment composition and storytelling, asset placement and polishing, foliage painting, lighting, and post-processing. With over 7 hours of real-time content, the course is designed for users who already have basic knowledge of Unreal Engine. It is taught by Emiel Sleegers, a senior environment artist with experience on major game titles, and is structured into 18 clear, well-organized chapters.

This course is designed to help beginners and intermediate learners master interior 3D design using Blender in a clear, practical, and structured way. Through years of working with Blender and teaching students, I’ve noticed that many learners struggle with the same problems: understanding Blender’s interface, creating clean 3D models, applying realistic materials, lighting scenes correctly, and producing professional renders and animations. This course directly addresses those challenges step by step. You will learn by building a complete interior project from scratch, focusing on real-world workflows used in professional interior visualization. Each concept is explained simply, with practical demonstrations, so you can apply what you learn immediately and gain confidence as you progress.

UV Mapping Bootcamp: Master Unwrapping & Texturing in Blender Bad UVs wreck great artwork—master clean, distortion-free unwrapping today! I am Luke from 3D Tudor, and UV Mapping Bootcamp distills fifteen years of texturing pain points into one focused Blender workshop. We will turn stretched checkerboards into crisp atlases, tame texel density, and build trimsheet-ready layouts that export cleanly to Substance, Unreal, and Unity. Stretched textures, popping seams, and checkerboards that slide around like budget origami can make even a gorgeous model look amateur in seconds. I have fought those same misbehaving UVs myself, so let us sort them out together and give your textures the respect they deserve! What You Will Learn The real purpose of UVs and how Blender’s editor organises them Smart UV Project versus seam-driven unwrapping—choose the right tool for the job Cube, cylinder, and sphere projections (and how to combine them) Troubleshooting: flipped normals, hidden overlaps, mip-map bleed, poor packing Consistent texel density across modular scenes, props, and characters Trimsheet workflows for bolts, vents, and sci-fi panels Texture-atlas strategy: pack more detail into fewer materials Human and creature unwrapping—ears, mouth bags, fingers, and toes without stretch Vertex-paint blending, AO masks, and curvature maps that respect your UVs Inside the Course Stage 1 – UV Concepts & BasicsWe start at the beginning—what UVs are, how they work, and why they matter. You will see how 3D surfaces are flattened into 2D space and how Blender’s UV Editor helps you control distortion. We also break down UV axes, the role of checker maps, and the difference between good and bad UVs. Visual tools and real-time examples set the foundation before moving into more hands-on workflows. Stage 2 – Auto UnwrappingHere, we speed through Blender’s Smart UV Project tool. You will learn how it slices geometry based on angles, when to use it for hard-surface models, and where it falls short (like painting or packing). We explore how the tool auto-rotates UV islands and the trade-offs of speed vs. precision. Stage 3 – Projection MethodsLearn how cube, cylinder, and sphere projections behave when applied to different meshes. We test them on primitive and subdivided models, using checker maps to identify which method works best for each shape—and when to mix them. Stage 4 – UV TroubleshootingThis stage focuses on clean geometry and solid workflows. You will learn to apply transforms, fix flipped normals, avoid mipmap bleed, and handle overlapping UVs. We also introduce Blender and Substance tools for visualising distortion, and explore padding’s role in texture clarity across engines. Stage 5 – Volume vs. Surface DensityUnderstand how surface area affects texel density. Through examples like brick walls and terrain planes, you will learn to optimise padding, scale, and UV island layout to get the most resolution without visual compromise. Stage 6 – Organic UnwrappingUnwrapping irregular shapes—like mushrooms and rocks—requires a different mindset. You will mark seams for curved objects, balance seam visibility with material flow, and test UV quality using procedural materials. Perfect for stylised or organic assets. Stage 7 – Custom Shape StrategyWhen textures need directional alignment (like roof tiles), you will learn how to unwrap cones, pyramids, and house shapes to preserve visual consistency. We also cover stylised rock unwrapping, showing how to prioritise density and flow depending on the asset’s purpose. Stage 8 – Directional Noise & FlowThis stage tackles directional textures—like wood grain—and how UVs affect their appearance. Using a stylised sign, we compare directional vs. non-directional materials, introduce the Magic UV and UV Squares add-ons, and show how to control texture flow for better realism. Stage 9 – Beveled Mesh WorkflowBevel modifiers are great visually, but difficult for UVs. We unwrap a stylised barrel before and after applying bevels, showing how early planning and proper seam placement can preserve clean UVs, even on rounded geometry. Stage 10 – 0–1 UV Space & AtlasesHere, we jump into real-time workflows. You will unwrap props like shelves, books, and plants using a single UV space. Learn how to scale islands based on asset importance, align layout to a master atlas, and balance quality with modularity. Stage 11 – Human UnwrappingAnatomical forms need care. You will learn how to unwrap hands, feet, ears, and facial features like the nose and mouth bag. We cover pinning, stretching, and isolating geometry to maintain clean seams and efficient island management for humanoid characters. Stage 12 – Vertex Painting PrepLow-res terrain or large landscape meshes need special treatment. You will unwrap them efficiently and create shaders that let you paint directly on the geometry—great for blending textures without blowing up texel costs. Stage 13 – Procedural Masks & DecalsYou will explore AO, curvature, and gradient masks inside Blender and Substance Painter. We also dive into decals for breaking up repetition and use shaders to blend in extra details where needed—essential for stylised props or terrain. Stage 14 – Trimsheet TechniquesWe end with trimsheets. You will learn to align UVs to trim patterns, bend and mirror them, and use them to quickly decorate stylised props like sci-fi crates. This technique is the crown jewel of UV reuse, giving you complex texture results with minimal overhead. Why This Course Stands Out Expect a zero-fluff blueprint that starts with a cube, scales up to characters, and ends with a production-ready asset. Every pitfall is demonstrated, fixed, and summarised—so the workflow survives version updates and engine changes. When the course ends, you will spend your time designing art, not hunting stretched pixels. Until next time, happy modelling everyone!Luke – 3D Tudor

VideoScribe is a tool that makes it easy to create animated videos, and is suitable for a variety of fields, including product descriptions, education, and marketing. You can create videos with concise and clear expressions.

In this course, you will learn a complete CG and VFX workflow inside Blender by creating a cinematic Batman-inspired scene from start to finish. We begin by analyzing real movie footage from The Batman (2022) to build strong visual references for lighting, camera placement, and color grading. Step by step, you will learn how to block a scene, project camera footage, match CG with live-action, and smoothly blend both elements to achieve a cinematic result. Around 90% of the final scene is created in CGI, making this course ideal for learning how professionals combine live footage and CG efficiently. The course focuses on practical techniques, helping you avoid common beginner mistakes in lighting, camera matching, and post-processing. By the end of the course, you will have a complete cinematic shot and a solid foundation in Blender-based CG and VFX workflows that can be reused in your own projects.

This is a basic Blender modeling & animation course where you learn while creating 3D graphic travel related icons!

Blender, the most globally recognized Free Open Source Software, is evolving beyond a simple 3D tool into an integrated DCC tool that encompasses the entire creative process from previsualization to post-production compositing. It also provides a powerful 2D animation toolset not found in traditional 3D tools, which means that depending on the user's level of understanding, there can be significant differences in workflow even when achieving the same results. This class aims to provide insights on how to best leverage Blender's potential by exploring how 2D and 3D animations operate within Blender, understanding the advantages and disadvantages of both animation production styles, and examining practical methodologies and optimal workflows through various case studies. For those who want to utilize Blender as their personal creative tool in the era of Generative AI, I believe this class will help you discover new possibilities in Blender that differ from what you already know.

This course is designed to help you get a job as an effects designer. You can get a job faster and at a lower cost than at an offline academy.

Grease Pencil is a powerful toolset in Blender that allows you to combine 2D and 3D work. This basic class aims to teach the basic principles and usage of Grease Pencil, and to build a foundation for drawing and animation freely in 2D and 3D environments. With Grease Pencil, which is becoming a core feature of the next-generation Blender along with Geometry Nodes, anyone can intuitively draw three-dimensional drawings and create animations at a speed that cannot be compared to existing 3D work!

You can learn the essential techniques of Adobe Animate from a KakaoTalk emoticon creator who produced the official music video for a collaboration between pop star JVKE and a K-pop idol, and whose animation reached 20 million views on YouTube.

Check out the first official Korean-localized course from global motion design platform LottieFiles, available exclusively on Inflearn now! Complete the course and receive an official LottieFiles certificate.

This is a game graphics course based on extensive experience in the field. Learn only the necessary parts quickly in one hour!