How to train in the field of real-time 3D?

The 3D real time is a specific area of ​​3D computer graphics, specific to video games. The Real-Time 3D Designer interacts with 3D scenes with environments, characters, levels and objects. There are many fields of application, from video game studios to industrial simulation, including visits to buildings in augmented reality. We tell you more below!

Software to know

To excel in the field of Real Time 3D, the best tool is undoubtedly Unreal Engine, which is known to be THE Real Time 3D creation software, used by the biggest international studios. There is also Unity, which is a very good game engine and a direct competitor of Unreal. When it comes to textures and light, we recommend using Substance Painter. As for more general software but just as important to know, we find Maya, Houdini, 3DsMax, VRay or After Effects.

What skills in Real Time 3D?

It depends on your chosen specialization, but many skills will be required to be a real-time 3D designer or a real-time 3D graphic designer, for example:

Concept of 3D environments : if you do not specialize in 3D environment, you will nevertheless need to know how to create environments, produce parts of sets, stage characters and objects in Nuke or Maya

Lighting and colors, materials : everything we call “lighting”, “texturing” and “modeling”

Matte painting 3D : under Nuke, Maya, Substance Painter Camera Mapping, Camera Tracking

Video game mechanics : understand interactive narrative diagrams, know the modes of interactivity, control of actions

Game engine : know how to master one, at random, Unreal Engine!

Photorealistic rendering : under 3DSMax or Vray

Many trades

Real-time 3D brings together many professions: the generalist real-time 3D graphic designer, who masters the production pipeline from A to Z, the environment specialist who knows the creation of sets, landscapes, buildings inside and out, etc. The game designer specializing in game mechanics and interactive actions; the level designer who designs the levels of a game, the real-time 3D developer who programs in C #, C ++ or JS…

Our real-time 3D training

The 3D e-tribArt school offers several courses for training in Real Time 3D:

Unreal Engine training, focus on the most popular game engine by studios

Game Design training, to get an overview of the game designer profession

3D Environment training, specialize in the creation of 3D environments