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Welcome to Your Gateway to 3D Texturing Excellence. Dive into the Art of Substance Painter with our Master’s Course.

Vector, Pixel & Layout Tools – Create illustrations, posters, edit images and create multi-page designs & brochures

Master vector, selection, gradient, and filter techniques to quickly create digital illustrations

Learn German language with fun bite-size lessons for beginners. Start speaking German & pass the Goethe A1 German exam!

Become a Webflow template creator to turn your Webflow skills into side income. A complete, practical and honest guide.

Build, deploy, and automate WordPress using real DevOps tools and production-style pipelines.

Design Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks using QGIS and AutoCAD – from theory to real projects

Learn to Clean, Automate and Deploy Trusted Data Workflows with Tableau Prep for Real-World Analytics

Master Drawing Eyes! Fully Understand: Drawing Concepts, Proportions, Structure, Lighting, Shading, Anatomy & Eye Types.

Quick, Fun, and Powerful Tricks Anyone Can Learn

Hands-on FEA training with HyperWorks covering meshing, analysis, connections, and optimization

This course is designed with beginners in mind, making it easy for anyone to learn and master the software. Our engaging lessons and hands-on projects will ensure you gain practical experience and confidence in using UE 5.4 for your motion design projects.

Do you want to be a professional logo designer who can design stunning logos with little effort? This is your exclusive opportunity to learn with Design Academy.

Building on the fundamentals, this course delves into the nuanced art of body mechanics with a focus on medium-level complexity, introducing the dynamic interplay between characters and their surroundings. Explore how characters react to environmental stimuli, mastering actions like interacting with objects, navigating obstacles, and responding to changing terrain.

Dive into the principles of anatomy and biomechanics, honing your skills to create lifelike character movements. In this class by Jordan Barg (Disney, Sony Imageworks) we will focus on introducing you to a new level of complex storytelling and movement, explaining in detail how to utilize a workflow that sets you up for success.

Concept art is about selling an idea, both visually and conceptually. It’s a piece of art that shows the full spectrum of a project, from its wonderful aesthetic to its powerful story.

Understand and build agentic systems and AI-powered applications to automate tasks & unlock opportunities.

Unlock your full potential in UI design with our UI design and Figma mastery course. Learn industry-leading techniques, design real-world projects from scratch, and create captivating user experiences.

Build a React Native mobile app using Cursor 2.0 and learn to integrate tools like Expo, Supabase, Loops, OpenAI and RevenueCat

Jorge Alderete—designer, illustrator, and graphic artist—has spent more than 25 years dedicating his art to music. His illustrations can be found on record covers, posters, and scenography, and it is also common to see him illustrate live at the shows of the band in which he plays the theremin, Sonido Gallo Negro.

This course covers Python workflows from computer architecture basics to advanced topics.

Ocean simulations are incredibly complex and technical tasks which require years of trial and error, thousands of hours of simulations, and more than a few pints of rum to master.

Master the workflow for adding photoreal CGI into live-action footage with Blender!

Learn PCG to create game environments in the fastest way

Transform your animation, in just twelve weeks, by learning the secrets of professional quality body mechanics in Blender.

Learn 3D Game Art With Real, Production-Proven Workflows. Model, UV, bake, texture, light, and present finished assets using the same techniques I use in studio today. Clear, structured, workflow-first training — beginner friendly, no follow-along clicking.

Inside Rig Master, you will master techniques that range from basic to advanced in character rigging — from humans to animals, from flat to textured. Always focusing on what matters: control, expressiveness, and creative freedom.

In this course, we will be reviewing the 12 principles of animation from Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston ´s The Illusion of Life and explore why it’s fundamental in animation and why it’s something that we constantly apply as animators. Because… we create the illusion of life out of pixels!

From Concept to Final Sculpt using ZBrush, Maya & Marvelous Designer with Omid Moradi. This comprehensive workshop covers the entire process of sculpting a 3D game character from scratch using industry-trusted techniques.

This second volume walks through the entire process of transforming the final ZBrush sculpt into a fully textured, game-ready character using ZBrush, Maya, Substance Painter, Marmoset Toolbag, and Photoshop. Created for mid-level and senior character artists with prior experience in 3D character creation, this 8-hour workshop aims to advance artists’ expertise and refine their overall approach.

Follow step by step through the practical stages of emphasizing the structure and planes of the head, clearly rendering the values of light and shadow, designing edges and creating likeness and composition.

In these lessons, we will create several different types of tornadoes. From small dust to huge deadly ones. And at the and, play with the fire. We will learn how to use manually created forces.