Creating Buildings & Vista Assets for Games using 3ds Max & Unreal Engine 5

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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 guide beginners through a complete cinematic workflow in Blender, from the first idea to the final rendered scene. Drawing from practical production techniques, the course focuses on solving common beginner problems such as inefficient modeling, overcomplicating textures, and struggling to achieve realistic results with limited time. Each step is explained clearly and recorded in real time, showing not only what to do, but why it works. Students will learn how to create a visually rich cinematic scene using smart low-poly modeling, collage textures, efficient UV unwrapping, and emissive shaders. The course also covers lighting, environment creation, volumetrics, and scene composition to achieve a moody, cinematic look. By following a structured, step-by-step approach, students gain confidence in Blender while learning time-saving techniques they can reuse in future projects. Only Blender is required, making this course accessible and easy to follow for beginners.

This lecture helps you learn about basic terms, concepts, and frameworks frequently heard when using Unreal Engine, and internalize them through practical exercises in simple game development using the engine editor.

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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.

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