Learn the ART of Video Games (Udemy.com)

I learned a lot from this course, from it's initial stage to it's end point. I'd definitely recommend this to anyone interested in improving their environment art. One thing that i think that could improve this course is for the Lecturer to atleast regulate his breathing or lessen his "gulping" sound as it can be be distracting from continuing on watching the video lectures

If the rating was simply based on knowledge gained I would give it 5 stars. I decided to give it a lower rating for audio reasons. The overall volume is very low. When listening in my car I have to turn the volume to max, then when other phone noises come through it blows my eardrums. Another side effect of having to turn the volume so loud is now other noises become much more pronounced. Breathing noises, lip-smacking, etc. There are also parts where the instructor seems to be mumbling to himself or talking under his breath as if he isn't instructing a course. Having said all of that, they amount of knowledge given, for the price that I got the course at, are very very worth it.

Kevin is a great artist as well as a great teacher, He covered every topic in this course, if you buy this course you will be able to create levels of your own imagination, he very well knows what to teach and what to left on you to do by yourself, you will find challenges in this course which you can complete if you follow along, at last, I would like to conclude saying a big thanks to Kevin who taught me this much I am looking forward to getting a new course from Kevin.

I can't recommend this course enough. Kevin is one of the most engaged instructors I've come across on Udemy, and he's also actively involved in making sure the course materials stay up to date. I purchased this course several months ago, and in that time he has mad multiple new videos in order to maintain relevance with the tools and topics covered. Additionally, the way he breaks up the chapters allows for a great pace within the course itself, and I never find myself thinking he left anything uncovered or like I needed more. One of the best online courses I've taken over the years.

This course is a great foundation for anyone wanting to get into game art. The structure of the course is great as well! The only con was replacing whitebox objects manually instead of having them update and propagate throughout the scene by fully using prefabs. I especially liked the pre production phase of the course as it cemented ideas ive had about the entire process. I wish i had this course a few years ago lol..

So far I have learned a lot. Looking forward to more. This was probably one of the best courses I have done Udemy. Absolutely amazing work. Goes into every aspect of game design. I have taken your Substance Painter course and that was awesome and is why I took this one. I will be able to take this knowledge and apply to my work. Thanks very much for all your attention to detail and wow you are an amazing artist. Keep up the great work. I use Unreal Engine, hopefully one day you can do something similar with UE4. :)

I've bought this course because I wanted to learn how to make a nice environment and also wanted to learn a bit about Unity. This course gave me more knowledge about Concept Art, Workflow, modelling, Unity etc. and I'm only half-way done. I've learnt so much so far, I need to give these 5 stars. The teacher is expaining things very well and is updating the course even now (2019). The Facebook group is also active and you can ask any questions you have. It was worth buying to 100%.

A lot of art tech details , clearly and patiently explain , not only get knowledge but also get warm encourage from a pro senior artist . Many useful advice included , not only for art learning , but also to bulid my own successful future . Btw , dear Kevin , is there any advice to make terrain split ? Just metion it here in case you missing the question I asked before , I still feel confused about terrain split , if you get some idea with it , I will be very thankful .

I was pretty disappointed with the course. The instructor clearly has some talent as an artist, but I was not impressed with him as a teacher. The biggest problem the course has is its scope. It tries to show everything that goes into asset creation for an entire game scene--for a complete beginner. Naturally, there is a lot to cover and, as a consequence, the student gets a very rudimentary, bare bones introduction to each process. If you are interested enough in making video game art to purchase the course, you are probably already familiar with 80% of its content. The second problem is the pacing. Drawing up diagrams and concepts, modeling every last prop... these are an important part of game asset creation and its good for the beginner to know what they are getting into, and how long it can take, but we don't need to see everything in real time, as the instructor distractedly repeats himself over and over trying to stay on topic. Timelapse-ing the video and explaining the process in an organized, concise manner would give the beginner everything they need and easily cut the course length in half, freeing up a lot of time to cover some of the more advanced concepts and time-saving workflow tips omitted from the course. All the lectures on the user interfaces of the various software programs are tenuous additions. They are too compendiary to be genuinely useful to the beginner, and superfluous for the experienced user. Admittedly, this is kind of a forced problem common to many other similar courses, as complete beginners (probably the better part of the market) could find the software overwhelmingly daunting with no direction given at all. Ultimately, if you have even a year of experience in 3D, I don't think there will be anything for you here. If you woke up this very morning, and decided for the first time that video game art was your future, you will learn some things from this course, but I think your time would be better spent elsewhere. I hate to be negative. It's evident the instructor worked hard on the material, and to his credit he is active in the Q&A and the facebook group, but the video presentation, in my opinion, spoiled all his hard work.

I skimmed over the concept art and white box chapters as I only bought this course to improve my raw modelling and Unity skills. But for those specific purposes so far this course is perfect. I have yet to go into Unity in detail but this course has improved my 3D modelling workflow tremendously. Coming from a mostly self taught background these lessons have trained out some of my bad habits and given me a much more effective pipeline for creating my models and scenes.