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Design & Illustration Learning Guides

Discover our selections of the best free design tutorials on a range of topics, all in one place. If you want to brush up your Photoshop skills or learn a new piece of software like Adobe XD, you’ll find learning guides here to help you do that. Or maybe you want something more specialised, like learning how to draw textures or how to paint hair. We’ve got guides to help you with that too.

Just browse through the list and click on a topic that interests you to discover more and to find links to our hand-picked selection of free tutorials, designed to teach you that new skill or software as easily and enjoyably as possible.

  1. Learning Autodesk Maya: A Beginners Introduction

    2 Posts
    If you've always wanted to dive into Autodesk Maya but didn't know where to start, this two part series is for you. Besides being one of the premier packages on the market for film, games and VFX. Maya's seemly endless number of tools, features, and options make it extremely intimidating to learn, but don't let that stop you! This beginner friendly series is a great place to start.
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  2. Create an Old Weathered Low Poly Post Box in Maya

    2 Posts
    You'll Learn how to create a low poly, highly detailed, old UK post box in this series. As you Model, UVMap and Texture a model suitable for use in the game industry or as an environment filler for your scenes. You'll take a simple, straight forward, eye-balled approach to modeling and then dive into UVMapping and also learn how to create a highly detailed PSD network shader via Maya.
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  3. Crafting a Detailed Next-Gen Boiler

    7 Posts
    In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a next-gen, game model of an old weathered Boiler. This series covers the entire process from low poly to high poly Modeling, UV mapping, Baking Normal and Occlusion maps, and Diffuse Texturing. Finally you'll learn how to apply the Xoliul’s shader in Maya for realtime rendering.
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