Game Artistry

Game artistry makes you a wizard who can paint universes into existence.

Making game art is one of the core game development skill specializations.

We have a basic game art tutorial to get you started.

There are a number of art subskills to be learned:

• Concept art
  • Drawing
    • Environment drawing: Fleshing out level designs into detailed worlds
    • Character drawing: Making characters distinctive and memorable.
    • Painting: Adding color and depth to drawings
  • Storyboarding
• 3D modeling
  • Environment modeling: Making structures and landscapes.
  • Prop modeling: Making objects for characters to interact with.
  • Character modeling: Making characters. Harder than environments.
• 3D sculpting: Model characters and organic shapes.
  • Clothing modeling: Sculpt flowing fabrics for characters to wear.
• 3D rigging: Preparing a character model’s skeleton to be articulated by animators.
• 3D animating: Keyframing a character’s movements for walking and actions.
• 3D texturing: painting substances onto characters to give them detail and color.
• 3D baking turns high-poly art into low-poly normal mapped equivalents.