Leading artists from Naughty Dog, Eidos and more share their advice in the latest issue of 3D World magazine.
Improve your game art skills with 3D World issue 212
In 3D World issue 212 – on sale now – some of the leading artists working in video games today offer training to get ahead in the industry.
Eidos Montreal’s art team behind Deus Ex: Mankind Divided discuss the art direction of their new game, plus Eidos artist Laura Gallagher shares her geometry modelling advice gained from eight years of creating complex assets for the award-winning Deus Ex series.
There’s more key advice in #212 as Naughty Dog’s Fabio Silver, fresh from creating the incredible VFX in Uncharted 4, reveals how you can create a building explosion in Unreal Engine. There’s more Unreal Engine training as we share advice on creating a detailed real-time environment, and you can follow part one of our tutorial series aimed at mastering Amazon Lumberyard, the new free game engine.
You can hone your game art skills further with our team of award-winning Substance Designer artists who will share their advice for getting more from the leading industry software.
Plus, discover how to master detailed embossing for characters in ZBrush and grasp the fundamentals of physically based rendering in our tutorials section. Our Q&A art team also tackle your CG dilemmas in a series of short tutorials that cover rendering glass in Maxwell Render, creating a splash in Cinema 4D and modelling a game-ready character in ZBrush.
As with every issue there’s free video training and assets for many of 3D World #212’s tutorials, and this issue we partner with Pluralsight to offer a free, three-hour video course covering texturing game assets.
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Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.
