Mastering Digital Design - An Introduction to Creating Classic 2D, Mobile, and Side-Scrolling Games

Classic and mobile games are still just as popular as the latest XBox or Playstation games. This course will build a strong understanding of how these types of games can be made using a different approach than standard 3d game development. In this course, instructor Alan Thorn will walk through the process of creating a side-scrolling platformer game from scratch using GameMaker: Studio. Instructor Greg Mirles will walk cover the process of building a side-scroller level using both 3ds Max and Unreal engine 4. Learn how to craft informative user interfaces, how to animate and rig 2D characters from within the Editor, how to script effectively with C# and 2D Physics plus much more. The course also covers how to push the appeal of the character by employing gradients to add dimension and interest to ultimately produce a high quality piece of character artwork.  Learn tips and tricks of creating dynamic animation and games design. - Know about the different branches in animation - Learn about what goes into making a successful animation - Understand better about the designing process with this course - Be able to create your own monsters and creatures at the end of this course

Mastering Digital Design - Learn Advanced Textures and Materials for Games and Film

This advanced course focuses on creating advanced materials and textures like those seen in today’s standard of AAA games. We'll take an introductory look at UDK's material editor where will we cover the basics of importing textures and creating our own materials. Through this course, you can learn how to properly photograph textures, edit unnecessary lighting information out of your photographs, how to tile custom textures, extracting different types of visual information from your images and applying your textures in 3D. This course also briefly touches on physically based rendering in regards to photo real texturing and look development. Instructor Emiel Sleegers will be walking you through the process of texturing a suitcase asset using both Substance Designer and Substance Painter. Learn tips and tricks of creating dynamic animation and games design. - Know about the different branches in animation - Learn about what goes into making a successful animation - Understand better about the designing process with this course - Be able to create your own monsters and creatures at the end of this course

Mastering Digital Design - Learn Digital 3d Sculpting with ZBrush and Mudbox (Part 1)

In this complete beginner's series, Galen Davis covers a basic introduction to sculpting for games using Pixologic's ZBrush. In this beginners tutorial we start by showing you how to create modular geometry in 3ds Max, export it to ZBrush, then quickly get you up to speed on using ZBrush for the first time with basic controls and concepts before diving into sculpting the floor stones and baking multiple texture maps. We cover planning your high poly, refining small details using ZSpheres and Dynamesh, and cover the low poly modeling process using Modo. You will learn about various tools and workflow aspects of ZBrush and work your way through the sculpting process and become more familiar with the ZBrush interface and the use of its more powerful features.  Learn tips and tricks of creating dynamic animation and games design. - Know about the different branches in animation - Learn about what goes into making a successful animation - Understand better about the designing process with this course - Be able to create your own monsters and creatures at the end of this course