GAMES 6670 - Texturing for 3D

Introduce students to texture design and production pipelines for creating realistic and stylized texture maps for machinima, games, and CG. Students will utilize advance graphics software packages that are prominent in the video game industry such as Maya, Photoshop, ZBrush, Mudbox, CrazyBump, xNormal, Quixel, Toolbag, and UE4. These software packages will be demonstrated from a user's perspective and explained from the software engineer's point-of-view. This is a project-based class that includes a teaching strategy of short lectures, project demonstrates and one-on-one training in the lab.