Professional Environment Artist Course

A professional environment-art pathway built on Unreal Engine 5 and 3ds Max. It starts at project planning and a clean project structure, moves through modular building kits, trim sheets and the texel density guidelines, then integrating assets into the engine by increments, basic and advanced shaders, weighted normals, set dressing with props, sculpting custom terrain with the UE5 Landscape tool, and the Foliage tool for an organic composition that complements your exterior environments. Then environment lighting, post-process and composition, high-quality output through the Movie Render Queue, and finally a professional breakdown document for your portfolio. You leave with a complete AAA-quality environment you built from scratch.

• Planning your projects professionally
• Planning and creating modular building kits
• Planning and creating trim sheets
• A clean project structure across 3ds Max and Unreal Engine 5
• Understanding and following the texel density guidelines
• Integrating assets into UE5 by increments
• Creating basic and advanced shaders in UE5
• Using weighted normals
• Adding props for set dressing a scene in UE5
• Sculpting a custom terrain with the UE5 Landscape tool
• Using the Foliage tool for an organic composition that complements your exterior environments
• Environment lighting, post-process and composition for a final render
• Creating high-quality renders with the Movie Render Queue
• Writing a professional breakdown document for your portfolio

• Beginner 3D artists, self-taught or still in school
• Intermediate artists building a portfolio
• Junior professionals levelling up

No lessons published for this pathway yet

• Unreal Engine 5
• 3ds Max
• Maya
• Blender
• Substance Painter
• Photoshop
• Canva
• Movie Render Queue

Lectures are delivered through the partner platform FlipSchool, and you can enrol on the recorded track or the interactive one. Seats are limited: lectures begin on 16 September 2026 and registration closes on 15 September 2026. Every project you submit is reviewed by the team and comes back with a full, detailed assessment, and the resources you need are provided.

• MS

  Moh'd Subhi

  The mentor of the pathway

  More than 25 years in software development and project management, with a background running from cloud infrastructure, DevOps, cybersecurity and QA management to full-stack web and mobile development, game engines, AI, VR and AR. He has delivered project management for international companies including XEROX and WONDERWARE.

• AA

  Amro Alhasan

  UE5 educator and guide

  Wide experience in general Unreal Engine implementation, trained at Unity's scope and framework. A UI and UX design specialist at FlipSchool, trained at HarvardX in organisational leadership and negotiation, in Learning How to Learn, and in AI 101 at the MIT Air Force training.

• BM

  Basil Mohammed

  Game design and professional concept artist

  An Unreal animation and gaming specialist, a multiple-time winner of the MODEE game competition, a game design and development graduate of Al Hussein Technical University, and a creator of interactive movie games.