Ambient Occlusion Courses and Certifications

NPS 3D™

Element 3D - Tips and Tricks

Discover 10 essential Element 3D tips to enhance your workflow, from texture resolution and anchor point settings to optimizing models and solving common issues like backface culling and ambient occlusion.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Packt

Blender Lighting & Compositing for Beginners

Master lighting and compositing in Blender with hands-on lessons covering light sources, realistic renders, and advanced techniques for stunning visual effects in 3D scenes, from fundamentals to professional-grade results.

• Coursera
• 11 hours 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Mudbox: Sculpt, Paint & Export 3D Assets

Master Mudbox's complete 3D pipeline from sculpting detailed models to painting realistic textures and exporting production-ready assets for games and films.

• Coursera
• 11 hours 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Packt

Blender for Game Asset Creation and Pipeline Integration

Master Blender for creating modular game assets and seamlessly integrating them into Unity through advanced modeling, procedural materials, and optimized texturing workflows.

• Coursera
• 17 hours 7 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

eyedesyn

Cinema 4D Tutorial - Ways to Optimize Ambient Occlusion Renders

Learn 5 techniques to speed up Ambient Occlusion rendering in Cinema 4D, including Ray Length settings, global vs. material-based AO, AO Cache, separate AO passes, and baking AO for game assets.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Photoshop: Texturing and Shading Techniques

17 ratings at LinkedIn Learning

Learn how to work with shaders, brushes, colors, and highlights in Photoshop to perform shading and texturing of various materials and surfaces—hard, translucent, 3D, and more.

• LinkedIn Learning
• 1 hour 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Embark on a start-to-finish project that results in a fully procedural "painted metal" material in Substance Designer.

• LinkedIn Learning
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Get started with the Bitmap2Material (B2M) application. Learn how to use this software to generate physically based rendering (PBR) maps from a single-source image.

• LinkedIn Learning
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

eyedesyn

Intro to HDRI Lighting Using Global Illumination in Cinema 4D

Learn to create realistic lighting in Cinema 4D using HDRI and Global Illumination. Master reflective materials, ambient occlusion, and optimize render times for stunning 3D scenes.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Unity

Lighting & Rendering Tutorial for HDRP - Unite Now 2020

Learn AAA-quality visuals for games using HDRP. Master key rendering features, tune settings for anti-aliasing, lights, shadows, exposure, and more. Gain practical skills for creating stunning graphics in Unity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Robert Laszlo Kiss

Traditional Sketching and Digital Rendering in Procreate

Learn to digitally color traditional paper sketches using Procreate, exploring techniques like adjustments, selections, ambient occlusion, reflections, and texturing for enhanced artwork.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

CG Cookie

When Not to Use Eevee for Blender Rendering

Explore Eevee's limitations in Blender 2.8, comparing it to Cycles and understanding when to choose each render engine for optimal results in various 3D rendering scenarios.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Reallusion

iClone Beginner's Guide - Scene Creation Part 2: Advanced Techniques

Learn advanced scene creation techniques in iClone 6, including lighting, mapping, shadows, and particle effects to enhance visual appeal and realism in your 3D projects.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Dikko

Texturing Stylized Characters - Blocking Base Colors with Material Node Editor

Learn to efficiently block out base colors for stylized characters using Blender's Material Node Editor, with added techniques for vertex painting and subsurface scattering.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Cosmic Spectrum Art

HaeJin Portrait Full Process Explanation - Photoshop CC - Speedpaint

Comprehensive walkthrough of creating a digital portrait in Photoshop CC, covering techniques from initial sketch to final detailing, with insights on color theory and workflow optimization.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video