• What makes an asset “game-ready”? Learn the full production workflow and Blender’s interface: navigation, collections, and object structure.

• Practice: model simple props like a crate or sci-fi container.

• Work with Blender’s core modeling tools (Extrude, Loop Cut, Bevel, Knife) and use modifiers like Mirror and Weighted Normals.

• Practice: create a clean, functional low poly prop.

• Explore high poly principles — silhouette, micro-detailing, and Boolean workflows. Learn Subdivision Surface and bevel control for hard-surface models.

• Practice: build a detailed high poly version of your prop.

• Turn your high poly model into clean, optimized game geometry. Learn snapping, shrinkwrap, edge flow, and target polycounts.

• Practice: retopologize your prop to make it game-ready.

• Understand UV concepts: texel density, seam placement, and overlap logic.

• Practice: unwrap and pack UVs for a clean, optimized layout.

• Bake Normal, Ambient Occlusion, and ID maps. Learn cage setup, naming conventions, and troubleshooting bake artifacts.

• Practice: bake maps from high to low poly.

• Introduction to Physically Based Rendering (PBR): BaseColor, Roughness, Metalness, and Normal maps.

• Practice: apply your baked maps to the model and create 2–3 distinct materials using Blender’s Principled BSDF shader.

• Refine UVs for consistent shading and fix bake mismatches.

• Practice: iterate on your unwraps and materials for better results.

• Plan and create a second, more advanced asset. Learn modular design and reference-based workflows.

• Practice: blockout, high poly, and low poly versions of your second asset.

• Unwrap and bake maps (Normal, AO, ID) for your second asset.

• Practice: polish maps and validate your model against pipeline standards.

Set up and refine PBR materials for your second asset. Optimize shader nodes and improve geometry for presentation.

• Review your projects with a checklist: topology, UVs, baking, shading. Get peer and mentor feedback.

• Practice: finalize, polish, and export your assets.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Have two fully baked, shaded, and game-ready 3D assets created entirely in Blender

• Understand the full high-to-low workflow: blockout → high poly → low poly → UV → baking → materials

• Be able to create clean UVs and optimized geometry that meet real-world game standards

• Know how to bake Normal, AO, and ID maps and troubleshoot common issues

• Be confident in setting up realistic PBR materials using Blender’s Principled BSDF shader

• Gain experience with asset planning, modular design, and reference workflows

• Receive structured mentor feedback to polish and finalize your work

• Build portfolio-ready assets without needing any external software