Shaders Courses and Certifications

EDUCBA

Develop Vertex Shaders and Screen Effects

Pairs creative shader development with performance profiling, mobile-friendly optimization, and screen-space image adjustments in Unity.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Freya Holmér

Healthbars, SDFs and Lighting in Shaders for Game Development - Part 2

Builds a game health bar with signed distance fields, then applies Lambert, Phong, Blinn-Phong, and PBR lighting in shaders.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dave Churchill

Game Programming: Introduction to Shaders - Lecture 21

Explore game shader fundamentals, including rendering techniques, animation, and graphics programming for enhanced visual effects in game development.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dave Churchill

Game Programming: Introduction to Shaders - Lecture 21

Explore game shader fundamentals, including rendering techniques, visual effects, and performance optimization for enhanced graphics in game development.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ned Rush

Texture Feedback Processing in Max Using Custom Shaders

Discover how to create texture feedback effects using custom shaders and jit.gl.pix in Max, exploring advanced visual processing techniques for unique artistic expressions.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dave Churchill

Introduction to Game Shaders and GLSL Programming - Lecture 18

Dive into shader programming fundamentals, from basic GLSL concepts to advanced effects like green screening and spotlights, with hands-on demonstrations using ShaderToy and SFML implementation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dave Churchill

Introduction to Shaders - Lecture 18

Discover GLSL shader programming fundamentals through hands-on tutorials covering textures, effects, and real-time graphics for game development.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Realistic Lighting with the Phong Model

Implement the Phong lighting model to give textured 3D objects convincing volume, depth, and material response.

• CodeSignal
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Shader Development from Scratch with Cg - Unity 6 Compatible

3509 ratings at Udemy

Learn to program the graphics pipeline in Unity for creating unique visual surfaces for game objects.

• Udemy
• 10 hours 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Unity: Design & Implement Advanced Rendering Effects

14 ratings at Coursera

Build advanced Unity shaders: apply transformation and camera matrices, write SubShaders and surface functions, and blend materials with multi-texture sampling, gamma correction, and splatmaps.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Unity Shader Programming: Create & Optimize

Write custom Unity shaders: build vertex and fragment shaders, implement Phong and Blinn-Phong lighting with light probes, craft water, glass, fur and night-vision effects, and profile performance.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

From Zero to Unity Shader Developer - Unity 6 Compatible

Write Unity surface, vertex, and fragment shaders: build Lambert, Blinn-Phong and PBR lighting, normal mapping, blending, stencils, and ray-marched volumetric clouds.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Apply Unity Shader Fundamentals and Lighting

Move from Unity shader fundamentals to custom lighting models and probe systems, creating holograms, silhouettes, and terrain texture blends.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Create Advanced Unity Shader Effects

Explore advanced Unity shader programming through reusable CG include files, specialized fur and heat-map rendering, and layered screen effects.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

EDUCBA

Apply Modern OpenGL Vertex Buffers and Shaders

Configure vertex attributes and buffer layouts, write and validate shader programs, speed up geometry with index buffers, and diagnose OpenGL errors using callbacks and logging.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course