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Cert Prep: Unity Materials and Lighting

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Created by: Alan Thorn

Produced in 2019

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Become Unity certified and show employers you have the Unity skills they are looking for. Improve your chances of landing that dream job doing what you love most- "making games, architectural visualizations, or films. This course helps you study for the lighting and materials portion of the Unity Certified Associate exam. Instructor Alan Thorn discusses creating basic materials, as well as physically based rendering (PBR) materials for simulating real-world objects like metal and wood. He also helps you get started with lighting, exploring direct and indirect illumination, point and spot lights, and dynamic lighting for more believable scenes. Then find out how to boost the performance and efficiency of your Unity projects with light mapping, light probes, and occlusion culling. Plus, learn how to apply post-processing effects such as blur, depth of field and grain, and color grading.

Intermediate Level

Time: 1h 56m

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Alan Thorn

Alan Thorn is a multidisciplinary game developer, author, and educator with 17 years of industry experience.

Alan makes games for PC, mobile, and virtual reality. He founded Wax Lyrical Games and created the award-winning game Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok, working as designer, programmer, and artist. He has written 23 technical books on game development and presented many video training courses, covering gameplay programming, Unity development, 3D modeling, and animation. He has worked in game development education as a senior lecturer for Teesside University, a lead teacher for Uppingham School, and a visiting lecturer for London South Bank University. He is currently the head of department for Games Design and Development at the National Film and Television School.