Unity For Artists

A collection of resources and learning material for Artists and Animators

Lighting - Lights & Shading Basics

1. Lighting Overview

2. Lights

3. Materials

4. The Standard Shader

5. Textures

6. Using Skyboxes

7. A Gentle Introduction to Shaders

8. Using detail textures for extra realism close-up

9. Frame Debugger

Lighting - Intermediate Light & Rendering

1. Introduction to Lighting and Rendering

2. Choosing a Lighting Technique

3. The Precompute Process

4. Choosing a Rendering Path

5. Choosing a Color Space

6. High Dynamic Range (HDR)

7. Reflections

8. Ambient Lighting

9. Light Types

10. Emissive Materials

11. Light Probes

Lighting - Using Realtime (Precomputed) GI

1. Introduction to Precomputed Realtime GI

2. Realtime Resolution

3. Understanding Charts

4. Starting the precompute process

5. Probe lighting

6. Unwrapping and Chart reduction

7. Optimizing Unity's auto unwrapping

8. Understanding Clusters

9. Fine tuning with Lightmap Parameters

10. Summary - Precomputed Realtime GI

Effects - Particle Systems

1. The Particle System

2. Adding Lighting To Particles

3. Adding Movement To Particles With Noise

4. Fun with Explosions!

5. Cinematic Explosions - PIT

Animation - Timeline and Cinemachine (Cameras)

1. Intro to Timeline and Cinemachine Tutorial (including Dolly Track)

2. Intro to Timeline [ by Brackeys ]

3. Intro to Cinemachine [ by Brackeys ]

4. Cinemachine Clear Shot Camera Tutorial

5. Using Timeline: Getting Started

6. Using Timeline: Understanding Tracks

7. Using Timeline: Working with Animation Clips

Shading - Material design

1. Materials

2. Emissive Materials

3. How to remove lighting from Photogrammetry with the De-lighting tool

Unity Essentials Pack Live Demo: Art & Design

1. Introduction to Art & Design Essentials

2. Uber Standard Shader Real Time Snow Effect

3. Building Levels With Octave3D

4. Volumetric Fog with Fog Volume 3

5. Questions and Answers for Art & Design Essentials

Live Session: Importing 3D Art Into Unity

1. Overview and Goals

2. Best Practices

3. Mesh Normal Calculation

4. DCC Tool Light Import

5. DCC Tool Camera Import

6. Importing Visibility Animation

7. Animation Keyframing Improvements

8. Stingray PBS Materials

9. FBX Material Embedding

10. Questions and Answers