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Step into the creative universe of Gabriel Björk Stiernström and learn to craft cinematic sci-fi visuals. Gabriel’s techniques will help you to design bold keyframes, starting with quick sketches and composition-first workflows. From early concepts to polished scenes, this process emphasizes speed, lighting, and dramatic visuals, perfect for bringing your ideas to life in games, films, or personal projects.
Over 15 hours of training!$149$74
Explore the cosmos with concept artist Gabriel Björk Stiernström and create your own ultra-realistic space scenes. Using principles of real science, you'll craft everything from gas giants to ice worlds, asteroids, nebulas, and stars. Each celestial body gets its own dedicated in-depth chapter, guiding you from start to finish, so you can either build your galaxy step-by-step or focus on the subjects you’re most eager to learn. With Gabriel’s guidance, master the techniques needed to create photorealistic backdrops for concept art and storytelling.
Over 12 hours of training!$149$74
Dive deep into the art and science of designing your own spacecraft. In Starship Design, concept artist Gabriel Björk Stiernström will guide you through ideating, modeling, texturing, and presenting detailed ships with a scientific approach. Learn to create functional and visually stunning spaceships, stations, or transports using software like Blender, Photoshop, and Octane. By the end, you'll produce multiple keyframes, callout renders, and turntables of your creations.
Over 27 hours of training!$149$74
In this course, Senior Character Artist Antonio Esparza unveils his full 3D character art pipeline, guiding you from concept to production-ready results. You’ll learn industry techniques for sculpting, texturing, and refining characters used in games, films, and cinematics. Ideal for artists aiming to create high-quality characters, this course covers every essential step in Antonio’s process, equipping you with skills to elevate your portfolio.
Over 16 hours of training!$149$74
Immerse yourself in the world of video games with AAA concept artist Daniele Solimene. Using a variety of innovative techniques, you’ll learn to work within industry-standard project pipelines and deliver beautiful, game-ready designs. With three adjustable difficulty levels, you can tailor your learning experience to match your skills, and progress at your own pace. If you’ve ever wanted to work in video games, this is your chance to level up your portfolio and come to your next project like a true pro!
Over 21 hours of training!$149$89
Learn to design and animate incredible, film-ready UI for your next project with Kris Brady's comprehensive new course. With 20 years of industry experience, Kris guides you through every stage of the process, from rough sketches to full-on animation and compositing, using techniques from high-budget film productions. Master the art of creating stunning interfaces that seamlessly integrate into any film project, and take your design skills to the next level.
Over 7 hours of training!$174$104
Acclaimed concept artist Pablo Dominguez is back at Learn Squared with a brand-new course, to share his process for building large, detailed environments. Under Pablo's guidance, you'll master the use of ZBrush to produce a range of high-quality environment concept art. Learn to create expansive city views, intricate assets, and fully animated scenes, all without relying on any third-party kitbashing. As a special bonus, by purchasing Environment Concept Art, you'll get Pablo's ZBrush Basics course for FREE! That means you'll learn everything from the absolute basics, all the way through advanced sculpting, rendering, and paintover techniques that Pablo uses in his daily professional work.
Over 32 hours of training!$149$89
Dive into the transformative world of costume design with Adam Middleton, a visionary behind some of cinema's most unforgettable outfits. In this hands-on course, you'll master the art of weaving narrative depth and realistic detail into every aspect of your costume designs. Whether you're a beginner just getting started or a professional refining your skills, Adam's techniques will elevate your costume designs to an expert level of lived-in authenticity. Prepare to unleash your creativity and bring characters to life through the art of grounded costume design.
Over 11 hours of training!$124$74
Dive into the world of concept art using Unreal Engine 5 with concept artist Ellie Cooper. In this brand new Learn Squared course, Ellie unveils her entire workflow, from initial sketches to finalized portfolio pieces, harnessing UE5's breakthrough tools like Nanite and Lumen. If you're new to Unreal Engine, make sure to check out Ellie's 'Unreal Engine 5 Basics' course, which is designed to help absolute beginners understand the latest toolset. As a special bonus, this course includes Ellie Cooper's Unreal Engine 5 Basics course for FREE!
Over 11 hours of training!$149$89
Don't just draft your visions - bring them to life. Under acclaimed illustrator KleinerHai's expert guidance, you'll learn to turn your sketches into captivating concept paintings and illustrations. Covering characters, creatures, buildings, props, environments, and everything in between, this course will teach you to paint every corner of your imagined world. Every brushstroke you create will add depth, narrative, and wonder to your creative vision.
Over 17 hours of training!$149$89
The hotly anticipated conclusion to Louis Laurent's groundbreaking first course is here to help you rethink the way you approach your process for creating concept art. Learn to truly embrace the creative process and create beautiful works of art with uninhibited flow.
Over 11 hours of training!$124$74
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Illustrator
Designing Futuristic Visuals
Create eye-popping visuals straight out of the future under the guidance of industry-leader Toros Kose. Learn Toros's process for approaching projects, designing assets, and compiling everything together into compelling styleframes with animation. This Director’s Cut edition includes an updated course structure, extra homework assignments, higher quality videos, over 4 hours of unedited process recordings, and more.
Over 1 hour of training!$74$44
Professional concept artist Louis Laurent's completely fluid process will help to unlock entirely new possibilities in your art. Using a mix of 2D and 3D techniques, you'll learn how to harness happy accidents along the way to create beautiful and unique works of art.
Over 8 hours of training!$124$74
Build hard surface props of any size! Leading concept artist Lars Sowig will guide you through his entire professional workflow, from blocking and modeling to texturing and rendering, all the way down to designing your own stickers and decals. Every movie, TV show and video game needs a prop designer. Why shouldn't that be you?
Over 12 hours of training!$124$74
Learn how to create real-time concept art in Unreal Engine 5 with Ellie Cooper. From sculpting hero assets in ZBrush, to assembling a full scene in Unreal Engine 5, and finishing with final paintovers and delivery, Ellie will guide you through her comprehensive process, using the industry's most up-to-date workflows for concept art creation.
$39$23
Follow along as industry-leading artist Gaelle Seguillon teaches you her process for creating captivating and lifelike worlds. You'll learn to create eye-catching sketches, techniques to create photobash concept art, how to build entire scenes in Blender, and realistically render using Octane. You'll finish the course with a set of portfolio pieces featuring environments you might wish you could visit!
Over 6 hours of training!$124$74
Learn cutting-edge techniques for creating real-time visual effects in Unreal Engine from industry-leading artist Tyler Smith. With a fully constructed sandbox level included in your purchase, you'll craft stunning and dynamic effects to enhance your game worlds, exploring unique methods for generating fire, water, snow, wind, and more.
Over 16 hours of training!$74$44
Learn modern concept art techniques from one of the industry's leading artists. AAA video game concept artist Romain Jouandeau will teach you everything you need to know to create a series of dynamic concept art keyframes using Blender and Photoshop in his unique style.
Over 8 hours of training!$124$74
Create stylized environments in Unreal Engine like a AAA game developer. Industry-leading games artist Tyler Smith will teach you a multitude of clever techniques to employ during the planning, building, integration, and optimization stages of building your beautiful realtime worlds in Unreal Engine.
Over 6 hours of training!$74$44
Learn professional workflows to design characters for films, games, TV shows, and more from renowned concept designer and illustrator Wouter Gort. Covering everything from the fundamentals of character design, prop development, keyframe illustration, and more, this course covers everything you'll need to know to level up your character workflow.
Over 9 hours of training!$124$74
Buckle your seatbelts, secure your belongings, and prepare for takeoff. Elevate your concept art workflows in this brand new course from Pablo Dominguez by learning to generate simple assets in 3D, arranging them to create dynamic compositions, and using them as a base to create beautiful, detailed concept art for your project or portfolio.
Over 16 hours of training!$99$59
Create 3D worlds to share with creative directors, tell more dynamic stories, and streamline your creative process. Industry professional Nick Hiatt covers his entire process in Maya, Substance, Redshift, and Photoshop, but the techniques in this training are not software dependent. Learn to use whichever tools you're most familiar with to create unique characters, detailed environments to place them in, and how to arrange everything into a dynamic, cohesive sequence.
Over 6 hours of training!$74$44
Capture an entire story in a set of dynamic and energetic paintings. Sequence illustration is an invaluable skill in just about every visual field imaginable, from movies to video games to commercials, so you can't afford to sleep on this one. When you study under industry-leading art director Patrick O'Keefe, you'll learn all his tricks for quickly laying down compelling compositions, zeroing in with detail and color, then post-processing one gorgeous final piece. After you pass this course, you'll be wondering how you used to create art any other way.
Over 4 hours of training!$99$59
Having trouble with textures? Don't worry! Video game industry legend Daniel Thiger is here to help you learn Substance Designer and get the career in art you've always wanted. Learn simple tricks to quickly and easily build beautiful procedural textures, in only a few short hours. You'll learn the ins and outs of Substance Designer, make your own shaders, and have an awesome portfolio piece by the end of the course!
Over 6 hours of training!$74$44
Get ready to work your assets off in this course from the general of 3D generalists, Mihailo Radosevic. Using Mihailo's tried and true techniques, you'll learn a full 3D production pipeline, covering all the basics of modeling, texturing, and rendering. All of the techniques covered here were used extensively in the collaborative short film Freight, created alongside friends of Learn Squared, Milan NIkolic and Sava Zivkovic.
Over 9 hours of training!$59$35
Your concept art will never be the same. Industry veteran Jan Urschel is here to show you how to build major production assets following a professional brief. By covering architecture, design and visualization, learn to approach your concept art from a theoretical and technical standpoint. With Jan's help, learn how to be a DOP of your own creations.
Over 7 hours of training!$99$59
Bring your HUD and UI designs to life in this After Effects-focused course by industry veteran Ryan Cashman. If you have an interest in animating HUDs for feature films or AAA video games, this course will be a perfect solution for you.
For those looking to learn the full design + animation pipeline, this course acts as a followup to Ash Thorp's HUD Design course. Buy as a bundle below and save an additional 10%!
Over 3 hours of training!$149$89
The world is yours. Follow along as renowned concept artist Paul Chadeisson covers his 2D to 3D workflow, including sketching, photobashing, and environment painting, as well as sculpting and rendering realistic environments – everything you need to create a unique world from the ground up.
Over 9 hours of training!$74$44
- Arnold Render (or any alternative renderer!)
- Adobe Photoshop
- Cinema 4D
Maxim Zhestkov teaches
Concept Architecture
Take a more artistic approach to architectural concept design. Follow along as award-winning designer/director Maxim Zhestkov reveal all the tools in his kit. Learn techniques in Cinema 4D, Arnold Renderer, and Photoshop to create your very own set of breathtaking images, including an immersive 360° render.
Over 7 hours of training!$69$41
Create stunning works of art by implementing the powerful language of film. Follow along as concept artist John Sweeney teaches you to create a cinematic image from start to finish. Covering everything from film analysis, to photoshoots, to 2D/3D workflows, this course should prove invaluable for both beginners and experts alike.
Over 11 hours of training!$74$44
- X-Particles
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe After Effects
- Cinema 4D
- Octane
Michael Rigley teaches
Design for Production: Workflow
Learn to create compelling, production-ready styleframes in Cinema 4D and After Effects with award-winning art director Michael Rigley. Michael will guide you through his entire creative process, from interpreting a project brief, all the way through procedurally generating and rendering complex 3D scenes. Students can expect a high level look at the creative and design processes, walking away with some solid portfolio work as well as a fundamental understanding of professional workflow.
Over 6 hours of training!$99$59
- Adobe Animate
- Adobe Audition
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Illustrator
Jorge R. Canedo E. teaches
Motion Design
Follow along as motion designer and director Jorge R. Canedo Estrada (AKA Jr.canest) breaks down his motion design process from start to finish, covering project insights, Jorge's Principles of Motion Design, Photoshop, Illustrator and particularly After Effects to help you create your own animation.
Over 7 hours of training!$149$89
- Adobe Bridge
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Cinema 4D
- Marvelous Designer
- Octane
Ash Thorp teaches
Main Title Design
Follow along as award-winning title designer, Ash Thorp, demonstrates how to craft detailed and thoughtful main title designs. Alongside Ash's professional Apprentices, students will learn the core principles of successful titles, and then be challenged to put these concepts to work by creating multiple examples of their own.
Over 12 hours of training!$149$89
Starting from square one, veteran graphic designer Ash Thorp will show you how to create production-ready UI and data elements for Hollywood films. Learn alongside Ash's professional Apprentices as you journey from client brief, all the way to final render and professional presentation.
Over 12 hours of training!$124$74
