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Learn to Concept Matte Paintings for Games and Film (Udemy.com)

Learn the Techniques for Creating Believable Environment Concepts

Created by: 3dmotive LLC

Last updated September 2016

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What you will learn

  • Utilize foundations for concepting environments
  • Utilize Value Sketching
  • Understand Photobashing to create convincing environment designs

How it compares

Against the other 72 rated Udemy courses in Game Design on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 26% of them
  • Reviews164#31 of 73 by number of reviews
  • Length2.8 hoursshorter than 80% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2016earlier than 98% of them

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Course Description

This 2D environment design course covers the basic principles of creating environment design, and the foundation and methods of creating environment design from start to finish. Here you will take a journey through the whole process which is very commonly used in the film and video game industry. Starting with basics like perspective, lighting, value structure, composition and then taking you through each and every step and ending with the demonstration of good use of photo bashing technique. Here the clearly explained and demonstrated workflow will make it very easy for the beginners to start their artistic journey.

(Students - please look under Section 1 / Lecture 1 downloads for the source files associated with the lesson.)

More about the Instructor:

Waqas Malik is an environment concept artist based in Pakistan. He studied fine arts and digital art, and loves creating visual stories using skills in the digital medium. Waqas' focus is in creating video games and movies. He have worked freelance for studios and now i am working full time on his own CG project.

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Instructor Details

3dmotive LLC

3dmotive is High Quality 3d and Game Art Training by Industry Pros! Whether you are brand new to the world of Game Art, 3d, Architecture or Film - or maybe just interested in brushing up your techniques for intermediate or advanced levels of 3d with a focus on video games, 3dmotive is your one-stop-shop for all your 3d and Game Art related tutorials! Got questions? Interested in a new course topic? Let us know!

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Reviews

4.4

164 ratings on Udemy

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By Noel S. Esperanza on 6/21/2025

This course is 101% good for me. I learned a lot from the beginning. How he paints details is how I paint details, too.

By Rohit Soni on 5/20/2021

Good Content, misleading title (title: matte painting, Video: this is not a matte painting), no info on coloring, no help in QnA regarding doubts whatsoever.

By Alberto Sangalang on 3/17/2021

very engaging i like how he presented the material doing in real time.

By JAY SALTON on 5/10/2019

Simple to the point no fluff. Looking forward to applying what I learn

By Caitlyn Salmon on 1/8/2019

Good delivery, the instructor was very clear and concise in his execution of the course. i just wish there was more on actual matte painting techniques. Overall great job.

By Víctor Luis Lira on 5/11/2018

Excelente curso, todo bien explicado, con detalle, te ayuda teórica y prácticamente (lo mejor) a crear tu propio proyecto mientras el instructor desarrolla uno. El único "pero" que le pongo es que el proyecto se basa demasiado en luces y sombras en blancos y negros. Estaría bien aplicar estos conceptos a color. Excellent course, everything well explained, with detail, it helps you theoretically and practically (the best part) to create your own project while the instructor develops one. The only "but" that I put is that the project is based too much on lights and shadows in whites and blacks. It would be nice to apply these concepts to color.

By Jason Brown on 12/30/2017

Lots of valuable information. Communication style is good by could be more engaging. Some information appears t be inaccurate but overall most information is accurate.

By Jesse steel on 8/16/2017

some parts were perfect and some need a little bit more in-depth details. Half way through - Great. Exactly what I needed to Learn. Thank you!

By Jason Lissner on 2/12/2017

great Introduction to the basics of concept art / matte painting and general fundamentals of 2d art.

By Stephen Rider on 11/13/2016

I found the photo bashing part less than useful for what I wanted out of the course; the first section on comp and layout was really useful and I wouldn't mind seeing that further explored.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100