Our Courses

2D Animation Essentials

Students should have taken at least one animation course prior to enrolling in this course, and should...

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2D Animation Essentials

Absolute Beginners

This course is an introduction to the basic fundamentals of drawing and painting necessary in developing...

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Absolute Beginners

Analytical Figure Drawing

As students continue to develop a basic skill set throughout this course, a special emphasis will be...

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Analytical Figure Drawing

Anatomy of Clothing

In this class, we will deconstruct the materials, from their tensile strength and geometric construction...

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Anatomy of Clothing

Animal Drawing

Animal drawing emphasizes on developing an understanding of the anatomy of wildlife and domestic animals....

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Animal Drawing

Art Direction for Character Designers

As character designers, every project we will work on in our careers will have its own unique look. Every...

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Art Direction for Character Designers

Becoming a Better Artist

Learn the basics of art as well as the subtle details and differences in techniques and approaches. Rob...

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Becoming a Better Artist

Character Design For Animation

This course will cover a lot of reference and breaking it down into the importance of things to consider...

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Character Design For Animation

Character Design for Film and Games

This course will teach you basic as well as advanced techniques in character creation. Students will...

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Character Design for Film and Games

Character Design For Production

This class will focus on taking your character designs through a production pipeline and learning to...

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Character Design For Production

Comics: The Art of Storytelling

This course is designed to be an intensive introduction to comics and narrative, from the very first...

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Comics: The Art of Storytelling

Costume Design

Students will discover methods of how to “dress” the figure to best suit the needs of their characters’...

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Costume Design

Creating Comics & Graphic Novels

During this course students will bring their own stories to life using images that will efficiently aide...

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Creating Comics & Graphic Novels

Creature Design for Film and Games

This course will teach you how to design your own creatures by using Earth’s animals as a guideline....

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Creature Design for Film and Games

Designing Landscapes in Plein Air

This course is a great option to solidify your foundational skills of mastering value, composition, and...

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Designing Landscapes in Plein Air

Digital Art Foundations

Take beginning steps to familiarize yourself with digital drawing and painting tools as well as foundation...

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Digital Art Foundations

Digital Painting

This course is an introduction to digital painting and color composition for film and animation. With...

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Digital Painting

Digital Portrait Painting

This course goes over different color and texture rendering techniques for creating believable human...

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Digital Portrait Painting

Drawing & Rendering Techniques for Hardware Design

Drawing & Rendering Techniques for Hardware Design covers the benefits of ideation sketching, perspective,...

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Drawing & Rendering Techniques for Hardware Design

Dynamic Sketching 1

Learn how to communicate visually through drawing principles and knowledge. Dynamic Sketching will enable...

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Dynamic Sketching 1

Dynamic Sketching 2

Foundational drawing is the most important aspect of being a designer. This class is designed to take...

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Dynamic Sketching 2

Environment Concept Design

Environment Concept Design includes the basic and general outline of creating an environment as used...

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Environment Concept Design

Environment Painting & Design

In this course, students will be going a bit further into what makes a good environment painting, from...

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Environment Painting & Design

Environment Sketching

This class will focus on creating compelling environments with a strong and consistent design language....

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Environment Sketching

Environment Sketching for Production

Environment Sketching for Production focuses on creating visual themes for use in a production pipeline....

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Environment Sketching for Production

Figure Drawing : Anatomy of Style

Patrick will discuss traditional drawing rendering techniques which he uses to simplify anatomy into...

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Figure Drawing : Anatomy of Style

Foundations in Modern 2D Animation

Put down your pegbars and pencils, because this class is about learning animation the modern way. Students...

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Foundations in Modern 2D Animation

Fundamentals of Architecture Design

This is a project-based course during which students will weekly be given assignments found typically...

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Fundamentals of Architecture Design

Fundamentals of Character Design

This is a beginning character design course with an emphasis on creating memorable characters with interesting...

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Fundamentals of Character Design

Fundamentals of Design

Design pertains to nearly everything. From composition and lighting to the shapes of our characters to...

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Fundamentals of Design

Fundamentals of Environment Design

Whether for film, video games, or digital feature animation, this class will focus on what it takes to...

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Fundamentals of Environment Design

Head Drawing and Construction

This course builds on the skills and information covered in the initial Analytical Figure Drawing course,...

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Head Drawing and Construction

Matte Painting

This course you will go through the complex discipline of matte painting, utilizing many different skill...

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Matte Painting

Narrative Illustration

Illustrators working in entertainment will spend their careers creating compelling imagery for narrative...

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Narrative Illustration

Perspective

Perspective is a class that introduces linear perspective systems, helping students to explore a variety...

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Perspective

Production Illustration and Environment Painting Techniques

Today’s studios have evolved a set of demands that move beyond the singular focus of matte painting to...

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Production Illustration and Environment Painting Techniques

Sketching Mentorship with Peter Han

Take advantage of a new opportunity at the CG Master Academy to work live one-on-one with Peter Han....

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Sketching Mentorship with Peter Han

Storyboarding For Animation

This is an introduction course where you will learn some techniques for visual storytelling. It will...

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Storyboarding For Animation

The Art Of Color And Light

The Art of Color and Light is an exploration in the properties of color and light under a variety of...

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The Art Of Color And Light

The Art of Composition

This class will cover the fundamental principles used to create visually striking images as applied to...

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The Art of Composition

Themed Environment Design

Build a portfolio displaying a deeper understanding of environment design by creating an immersive story...

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Themed Environment Design

Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments

Many artists apply to the studio with portfolios lacking next gen skills needed in today's AAA titles....

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Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments

Visual Development Mentorship

PLEASE NOTE: This course is full for the Spring term and will run again in the Fall 2019 term. Students...

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Visual Development Mentorship

Advanced Substance for Environment Art

In this advanced version of Intro to Substance for Environment Art course, students will learn the context...

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Advanced Substance for Environment Art

Anatomy for Production

The objective of this class is to understand anatomy in terms of shape, form, and function. Each week...

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Anatomy for Production

Character Creation for Film/Cinematics

The objective of this class is to understand character creation for film and game cinematics in terms...

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Character Creation for Film/Cinematics

Character Facial Sculpting

During this course, students will learn what makes the face look as it does—the underlying structures...

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Character Facial Sculpting

Character Texturing for Games in Substance

This class will go over how to use Substance painter as a tool for texturing game characters. We will...

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Character Texturing for Games in Substance

Grooming for VFX

In this course, students will discover the basics of the grooming. Students will create 2 major groom...

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Grooming for VFX

Hair Creation for Games

This class will teach you how to create AAA quality hair for games. Using techniques developed during...

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Hair Creation for Games

Hard Surface Modeling for Characters

Throughout this course we are going to take a look at the techniques and challenges of designing and...

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Hard Surface Modeling for Characters

Hard Surface Modeling for Films

This course covers the creation of VFX production assets of an inorganic nature. Lectures will cover...

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Hard Surface Modeling for Films

Interior Design for Maya

This course will focus on creating a sleek contemporary interior with Maya, Zbrush, other 3D packages....

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Interior Design for Maya

Intro to Environment Art

During this class students will get to experience the environment pipeline creation from start to finish....

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Intro to Environment Art

Intro to Maya

Students are introduced to the Maya interface and philosophy, as well as 3D modeling, texturing, lighting,...

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Intro to Maya

Intro to Production Modeling

The aim of this course is to expose you to all of the things that you need in order to be successful...

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Intro to Production Modeling

Introduction to Marvelous Designer

This introductory course for Marvelous Designer will go into detail about most of the tools and different...

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Introduction to Marvelous Designer

Introduction to Substance for Environment Art

In the Intro to Substance for Environment Art course, students will build their knowledge in the Substance...

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Introduction to Substance for Environment Art

Introduction to Unity

This course offers an introduction to Unity and steps students through the creation of their first 3D...

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Introduction to Unity

Level Design for Games

In this course you will learn to approach 3D game level environments from a design perspective. The lectures...

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Level Design for Games

Next Gen Character Creation Mentorship

This course has been designed to learn in-depth techniques for modeling, texturing and rendering a cutting...

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Next Gen Character Creation Mentorship

Next Gen Creature Creation

Create fantasy-based bipedal creature in some form of armor. This process will cover all aspects of game...

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Next Gen Creature Creation

Organic World Building in UE4

In this course, students will create a game level from scratch in UE4. The course will cover UE4’s object...

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Organic World Building in UE4

Sculpting Anatomy: From Animal to Creature

In this course, students will create their own animal anatomy study in ZBrush. They will learn how to...

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Sculpting Anatomy: From Animal to Creature

Stylized 3D Asset Creation for Games

In this course you will create finished key environment assets and props that will work together in a...

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Stylized 3D Asset Creation for Games

Stylized Characters in 3D

The main objective of this class is to understand and have a finished stylized character at the end of...

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Stylized Characters in 3D

Texturing and Shading for Games

The objective of this course is to teach students how to create materials and textures for video games...

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Texturing and Shading for Games

Texturing for Films/Cinematics

This class will focus on creating high-resolution textures and shaders with a film/cinematic approach....

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Texturing for Films/Cinematics

UE4 Modular Environments

In this course, students will be taught how to break down reference and develop a list of reusable assets....

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UE4 Modular Environments

Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments

Many artists apply to the studio with portfolios lacking next gen skills needed in today's AAA titles....

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Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments

Vegetation & Plants for Games

During this course, students are going to create an environment for games, with a heavy focus on vegetation...

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Vegetation & Plants for Games

Weapons and Props for Games

This course covers the fundamentals of creating weapons and props for games. In this course you will...

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Weapons and Props for Games

ZBrush for Concept & Iteration

This high-intensity class will focus on getting you up and running in ZBrush in as little time as possible,...

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ZBrush for Concept & Iteration

Abstract FX in Houdini

Virtually every tool in Houdini can be used for abstraction. Houdini is a means to an end, but not the...

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Abstract FX in Houdini

Biomedical Imaging in 3D

This is an introductory course for the scientist and artist who would like to know how to use both scientific...

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Biomedical Imaging in 3D

Body Mechanics

Understanding body mechanics is one of the most important aspects of animation. In this 8 week course...

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Body Mechanics

Character Facial Rigging for Production

Learn how to rig character faces and bring them to life! Upon completion of this 8-week class, students...

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Character Facial Rigging for Production

Cloth Simulation

In his 8-week class, Steve Sandles (Framestore, London) will cover many aspects of cloth in CG. Using...

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Cloth Simulation

Concept Art: From 2D to 3D

In this course, you will go through the most up -to-date methods of design used in the entertainment...

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Concept Art: From 2D to 3D

Crowd Simulation

Crowd Simulation is a versatile skill for any character animator. Involving cycles, midground animation,...

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Crowd Simulation

Fluids FX Using Houdini

Starting with the basics of voxels you will learn about smoke solvers, micro solvers and the Pyro Solver....

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Fluids FX Using Houdini

FX for Games

In this course, students learn the fundamental workflows and approaches for creating a wide range of...

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FX for Games

Grooming for VFX

In this course, students will discover the basics of the grooming. Students will create 2 major groom...

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Grooming for VFX

Intro to FX Using Houdini

Intro to FX using Houdini will give an exciting introduction to a variety of FX capabilities in Houdini....

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Intro to FX Using Houdini

Intro to Rigging

This course is an introduction to rigging. We'll explore how digital characters are brought to life using...

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Intro to Rigging

Lighting and Shading for Film Production

This course focuses on lighting, shading, and rendering in Maya and V-Ray for feature films. Students...

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Lighting and Shading for Film Production

Mastering Destruction in Houdini

Unleash your inner FX monster, and let's smash some buildings! In this destruction course, students will...

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Mastering Destruction in Houdini

Matte Painting

This course you will go through the complex discipline of matte painting, utilizing many different skill...

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Matte Painting

Mechanical Rigging

This course is an exploration of solving various mechanical rigging challenges in Maya. Topics include...

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Mechanical Rigging

Motion Graphics

Motion Graphics is the perfect course for those taking a fresh leap into the world of motion graphics,...

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Motion Graphics

Nuke Compositing for 3D Artists

Nuke Compositing for 3D artists is the perfect course for anyone who works with 3D renders. This includes...

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Nuke Compositing for 3D Artists

Organic Design in Houdini

In Organic Design in Houdini, you’ll learn to use the power of Houdini to implement complex effects in...

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Organic Design in Houdini

Previs for Film Production

In this course, students will learn the basics of previsualization shot creation. From composing shots...

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Previs for Film Production

Production Illustration and Environment Painting Techniques

Today’s studios have evolved a set of demands that move beyond the singular focus of matte painting to...

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Production Illustration and Environment Painting Techniques

Rigging for Games

This course is all about creating robust engine agnostic rigs. We will tackle thinking in components,...

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Rigging for Games

Rigging Techniques: Cartoon to Realistic

Aimed at students that already have a background in rigging and want to take their skills to the next...

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Rigging Techniques: Cartoon to Realistic

Scripting & Tool Dev. for Maya

For some disciplines such as rigging and FX, knowing how to script is essential, but that does not mean...

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Scripting & Tool Dev. for Maya

The Art of Lighting for Games

This course will demonstrate a practical approach to in-game/real-time lighting within the context of...

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The Art of Lighting for Games

VEX in Houdini

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the use of VEX in Houdini. Some of what you’ll learn includes:...

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VEX in Houdini

Advanced Substance for Environment Art

In this advanced version of Intro to Substance for Environment Art course, students will learn the context...

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Advanced Substance for Environment Art

Anatomy for Production

The objective of this class is to understand anatomy in terms of shape, form, and function. Each week...

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Anatomy for Production

Character Creation for Film/Cinematics

The objective of this class is to understand character creation for film and game cinematics in terms...

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Character Creation for Film/Cinematics

Character Facial Sculpting

During this course, students will learn what makes the face look as it does—the underlying structures...

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Character Facial Sculpting

Character Texturing for Games in Substance

This class will go over how to use Substance painter as a tool for texturing game characters. We will...

  Learn More  

Character Texturing for Games in Substance

Hair Creation for Games

This class will teach you how to create AAA quality hair for games. Using techniques developed during...

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Hair Creation for Games

Hard Surface Modeling for Characters

Throughout this course we are going to take a look at the techniques and challenges of designing and...

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Hard Surface Modeling for Characters

Intro to Environment Art

During this class students will get to experience the environment pipeline creation from start to finish....

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Intro to Environment Art

Intro to Maya

Students are introduced to the Maya interface and philosophy, as well as 3D modeling, texturing, lighting,...

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Intro to Maya

Intro to Production Modeling

The aim of this course is to expose you to all of the things that you need in order to be successful...

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Intro to Production Modeling

Introduction to Marvelous Designer

This introductory course for Marvelous Designer will go into detail about most of the tools and different...

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Introduction to Marvelous Designer

Introduction to Substance for Environment Art

In the Intro to Substance for Environment Art course, students will build their knowledge in the Substance...

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Introduction to Substance for Environment Art

Introduction to Unity

This course offers an introduction to Unity and steps students through the creation of their first 3D...

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Introduction to Unity

Level Design for Games

In this course you will learn to approach 3D game level environments from a design perspective. The lectures...

  Learn More  

Level Design for Games

Next Gen Character Creation Mentorship

This course has been designed to learn in-depth techniques for modeling, texturing and rendering a cutting...

  Learn More  

Next Gen Character Creation Mentorship

Next Gen Creature Creation

Create fantasy-based bipedal creature in some form of armor. This process will cover all aspects of game...

  Learn More  

Next Gen Creature Creation

Organic World Building in UE4

In this course, students will create a game level from scratch in UE4. The course will cover UE4’s object...

  Learn More  

Organic World Building in UE4

Sculpting Anatomy: From Animal to Creature

In this course, students will create their own animal anatomy study in ZBrush. They will learn how to...

  Learn More  

Sculpting Anatomy: From Animal to Creature

Stylized 3D Asset Creation for Games

In this course you will create finished key environment assets and props that will work together in a...

  Learn More  

Stylized 3D Asset Creation for Games

Stylized Characters in 3D

The main objective of this class is to understand and have a finished stylized character at the end of...

  Learn More  

Stylized Characters in 3D

Texturing and Shading for Games

The objective of this course is to teach students how to create materials and textures for video games...

  Learn More  

Texturing and Shading for Games

The Art of Lighting for Games

This course will demonstrate a practical approach to in-game/real-time lighting within the context of...

  Learn More  

The Art of Lighting for Games

UE4 Modular Environments

In this course, students will be taught how to break down reference and develop a list of reusable assets....

  Learn More  

UE4 Modular Environments

Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments

Many artists apply to the studio with portfolios lacking next gen skills needed in today's AAA titles....

  Learn More  

Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments

Vegetation & Plants for Games

During this course, students are going to create an environment for games, with a heavy focus on vegetation...

  Learn More  

Vegetation & Plants for Games

Weapons and Props for Games

This course covers the fundamentals of creating weapons and props for games. In this course you will...

  Learn More  

Weapons and Props for Games

ZBrush for Concept & Iteration

This high-intensity class will focus on getting you up and running in ZBrush in as little time as possible,...

  Learn More  

ZBrush for Concept & Iteration

Advanced Substance for Environment Art

In this advanced version of Intro to Substance for Environment Art course, students will learn the context...

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Advanced Substance for Environment Art

Intro to Maya

Students are introduced to the Maya interface and philosophy, as well as 3D modeling, texturing, lighting,...

  Learn More  

Intro to Maya

Introduction to Marvelous Designer

This introductory course for Marvelous Designer will go into detail about most of the tools and different...

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Introduction to Marvelous Designer

Introduction to Substance for Environment Art

In the Intro to Substance for Environment Art course, students will build their knowledge in the Substance...

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Introduction to Substance for Environment Art

Introduction to Unity

This course offers an introduction to Unity and steps students through the creation of their first 3D...

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Introduction to Unity

ZBrush for Concept & Iteration

This high-intensity class will focus on getting you up and running in ZBrush in as little time as possible,...

  Learn More  

ZBrush for Concept & Iteration

2D Animation Essentials

Students should have taken at least one animation course prior to enrolling in this course, and should...

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2D Animation Essentials

Comics: The Art of Storytelling

This course is designed to be an intensive introduction to comics and narrative, from the very first...

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Comics: The Art of Storytelling

Creating Comics & Graphic Novels

During this course students will bring their own stories to life using images that will efficiently aide...

  Learn More  

Creating Comics & Graphic Novels

Foundations in Modern 2D Animation

Put down your pegbars and pencils, because this class is about learning animation the modern way. Students...

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Foundations in Modern 2D Animation

Keyframe Illustration for Film

The goal of this course is to create good-looking and interesting cinematic illustrations. We will be...

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Keyframe Illustration for Film

Narrative Illustration

Illustrators working in entertainment will spend their careers creating compelling imagery for narrative...

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Narrative Illustration

Story Development for Artists: from Idea to Reality

Everyone has IDEAS; now learn how to take that idea/sketch/napkin drawing and build it into a STORY with...

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Story Development for Artists: from Idea to Reality

Storyboarding For Animation

This is an introduction course where you will learn some techniques for visual storytelling. It will...

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Storyboarding For Animation

Storytelling and Storyboarding Mentorship

This class is for students who prefer live, long-format, interactive group lectures and critiques--with...

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Storytelling and Storyboarding Mentorship

The Art of Composition

This class will cover the fundamental principles used to create visually striking images as applied to...

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The Art of Composition

Advanced Substance for Environment Art

In this advanced version of Intro to Substance for Environment Art course, students will learn the context...

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Advanced Substance for Environment Art

Animating in Unreal

This class serves as a solid introduction to the skills and techniques needed to create a cinematic in...

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Animating in Unreal

Biomedical Imaging in 3D

This is an introductory course for the scientist and artist who would like to know how to use both scientific...

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Biomedical Imaging in 3D

Character Facial Sculpting

During this course, students will learn what makes the face look as it does—the underlying structures...

  Learn More  

Character Facial Sculpting

Designing Landscapes in Plein Air

This course is a great option to solidify your foundational skills of mastering value, composition, and...

  Learn More  

Designing Landscapes in Plein Air

Sketching Mentorship with Peter Han

Take advantage of a new opportunity at the CG Master Academy to work live one-on-one with Peter Han....

  Learn More  

Sketching Mentorship with Peter Han

2D Animation Essentials

Students should have taken at least one animation course prior to enrolling in this course, and should...

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2D Animation Essentials

Absolute Beginners

This course is an introduction to the basic fundamentals of drawing and painting necessary in developing...

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Absolute Beginners

Character Design in Sculpting

In this class, students will choose an existing character concept art or create their own and design...

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Character Design in Sculpting

Character Facial Rigging for Production

Learn how to rig character faces and bring them to life! Upon completion of this 8-week class, students...

  Learn More  

Character Facial Rigging for Production

Lighting and Shading for Film Production

This course focuses on lighting, shading, and rendering in Maya and V-Ray for feature films. Students...

  Learn More  

Lighting and Shading for Film Production

Next Gen Character Creation Mentorship

This course has been designed to learn in-depth techniques for modeling, texturing and rendering a cutting...

  Learn More  

Next Gen Character Creation Mentorship

Nuke Compositing for 3D Artists

Nuke Compositing for 3D artists is the perfect course for anyone who works with 3D renders. This includes...

  Learn More  

Nuke Compositing for 3D Artists

Rigging for Games

This course is all about creating robust engine agnostic rigs. We will tackle thinking in components,...

  Learn More  

Rigging for Games

Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments

Many artists apply to the studio with portfolios lacking next gen skills needed in today's AAA titles....

  Learn More  

Variable Concept Art Techniques for Game Environments