Today we’re going to discuss how 3D graphics are created and then rendered for a 2D screen. From polygon count and meshes, to lighting and texturing, there are a lot of considerations in building the 3D objects we see in our movies and...

Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia -- meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The author of "Born on a Blue Day,"...

Joe went behind the scenes at Monterey Bay Aquarium to meet the Giant Pacific Octopus, a powerful and curious creature that challenges many of our notions of intelligence!

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No matter what your design style, these clever decorating tricks will give your house the warm, cozy feeling of home.

Pupil outcome: I can plan a weaving inspired by underwater creatures. Key learning points: - Swatches of fabric are small pieces of material that are used to show what different fabrics look and feel like. - Artists can match colours and...

In this video, you will learn about modular kit and resource packs that are available in Unreal Engine 5. You will understand the benefits of using modular kits to build your environment, and how to use the resource pack to create your...

This lesson will see us finishing jewel props for our Dungeon Prop.

In this lesson, you will learn how to make use of light sources to light up your assets better.

In this lesson, you will find out how to import texture maps with Node Wrangler in Blender. This is perhaps the most useful built-in addon that's available for Blender. This addon makes creating materials a real joy.

In this lesson, we will look through the download pack that comes with the course. You will find 23 unique seamless materials, one atlas material for the books, one trim sheet for gold decorations, seven ornaments set up with PBR...

The lesson will show us how to set up a deferred decal of blood to be applied to the scene. We will go over the process of setting up PBR textures for our VFX and how we can project them on our scene.

This lesson will teach us how to set up basic opacity masked materials and how to fix the initial problems it causes when applying them to our Nanite meshes.

The lesson will show us how to make use of the process we have learned so far and apply material textures to our assets at a faster pace.

The lesson will teach us how to set up additional parameters for our base color texture within the material. You will learn how to create a color variation for the instances and how to make use of it to get more control over our asset...

During this lesson, we will be setting up additional material parameters for our assets. This time, we will set up contrast values for our roughness textures to make sure we get the ability to sharpen our reflections on the asset surfaces.

This lesson will walk you through the process of assigning a grainy metal material for our assets.

In this lesson, you will learn how to set up a metal material for the Unreal Engine 5 assets. We will assign the textures to our PBR material and make sure we end up with nice-looking metal.

This lesson will show you how to adjust your texture map for the PBR roughness values to get a rougher surface from the asset.

The lesson will show us how to link material textures to our newly created material instances. We will make sure that they are set up nicely within our Unreal Engine 5 project.