Course Catalog

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.

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.

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.

Create eye-popping illustrations and dynamic compositions with clear shapes, decisive lines, and big poses. Learn from renowned artist Amin Faramarzian, whose high-contrast, high-energy pieces might look like Saturday morning cartoons on the surface, but often hide deeper and powerful themes underneath.

Learn cutting edge techniques to create real-time concept art in Unreal Engine 5 from Ellie Cooper. From sculpting hero assets in ZBrush, to assembling a full scene in Unreal Engine 5, all the way through final paintovers and delivery, Ellie will cover her comprehensive process for creating concept art using the industry's latest workflows.

Learn the fundamentals of painting realistic portraits from industry-leading artist Daniel Walsh. Utilizing the advanced techniques learned throughout his career, Daniel will show you his process for crafting eye-catching portraits for characters. By starting off with the very basics of sketching and deconstructing an image using the Bargue Method, you'll learn everything necessary to create beautiful final paintings to add your portfolio.

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!

Learn the latest techniques to create real time visual effects in Unreal Engine from industry leading artist Tyler Smith. Using a fully constructed sandbox level included with your purchase, you’ll create beautiful and captivating effects to bring your game worlds to life, and take unique approaches to generate fire, water, snow, wind, and more.

Learn exactly what it takes to become a CGI filmmaker as Sava Zivkovic covers all the steps he's taken to become one of the industry's best.

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.

Industry legend Maxx Burman commands over a decade's worth of experience, having delivered iconic matte paintings for TV, film, and video games on projects such as Iron Man 3, Game of Thrones, Westworld, and DOZENS more. His journey has also seen him wear many hats including art director, game developer, educator, and co-founder of the now industry-standard Kitbash 3D. In this brand new course from Learn Squared, Maxx will teach you all of his advanced 3D matte painting techniques which will help you create stunning worlds with ease and efficiency.

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.

Styleframes are an invaluable part of films, games, TV shows, commercials and more, allowing the artist to shape a project's look and feel. Across four in-depth lessons, motion graphics legend zaoeyo has constructed an incredible learning experience for you. Covering the ins and outs of his process in Cinema 4D and Octane Render, you'll learn to quickly create stunning styleframes to tell your stories, pitch your projects, and land bigger jobs with ease and simplicity. We've also included a special bonus lesson, which will help you to turn your styleframes into a beautiful animated sequence!

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.

Substance Designer is one of the fastest-growing procedural texturing solutions in the industry today. In this brand new course, games industry veteran Javier Perez will guide you through everything you need to harness this powerful tool. From covering the most basic UI elements to skillfully stitching together each node, you will gain a comprehensive knowledge of the creative process, workflows and presentation styles to create beautiful and realistic materials of your own.

Looking to add some dimension to your matte paintings? ILM and Axis Animation lead matte painter Steven Cormann will teach you to create cinematic environment shots, from scratch to final comp utilizing professional studio techniques. Whether you’re a 2D matte painter looking to learn more about 3D techniques, a 3D environment artist looking to learn more about matte painting, or an aspiring artist hungry to learn, this course will teach you the knowledge and skills required to make it in the industry.

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.

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.

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.