Intro to Environment Design with Donna Johnson

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Donna Johnson is an experienced environment designer and illustrator, currently working in freelance illustration for projects like card art for Run for Your Money and color key work for a student film, Beast and Banter. She is passionate about creating vivid, immersive environments. Donna’s portfolio showcases her expertise in creating dynamic environments, with a focus on lighting, composition, and world-building.

This masterclass provides a foundational introduction to environment design. Donna will walk you through the essential principles for creating compelling indoor and outdoor spaces, helping you understand:

- The role of composition in creating strong, engaging images
- Techniques for lighting and setting the right mood
- Key concepts in shape language and world-building to make your environments feel unique and lived-in

If you’re looking to level up your design skills, whether you’re working in animation, games, or illustration, this class is for you!

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[thedctr]

she's so pretty and smart, i could watch her forever

[GuitarraErudita]

I'm video editor and tbh this is the most solid info I've seen around. So helpfull, because since u get the tools on your hand the thing that makes the difference is how deep u understand what to communicate with the image. Ty, ty!!!

[DerAua]

Thank you very much. Being unable to afford an education like this where I live, I am very grateful for the incredible content you provide for free. You are really good at explaining these concepts.
Edit: Thank you for taking the extra time to answer all those questions, too.

[CloudyGamingCG]

A really great class on designing environment specially keeping framing in mind . Gonna help me for my game.

[punishedhuguini]

good stuff, better than my uni classes!

[okofabio]

Awesome presentation, thanks for sharing!

[TheMirrorslash]

Thank you for this. Currently creating game environments in blender and this is giving me the needed input to think over some ideas before it goes into production and becomes hard to adjust.

[skmike]

Very cool, there's actually not a lot of information or tutorials about environment design online.

[kikijewell]

Glad I clicked as this looks useful for game design!

[riccia]

Do you still need to make the focal area the most high contrast when you place bushes and path way leading to the focal area? or its not necessary since the pathway will lead you to the focal point anyway?

[K..ART-td]

how's the industry right now? worth pursuing?

[CONTORART]

Great talk, just one thing, Min Yum is a dude :) Love his work also

[MrSongib]

1:37:00 Btw, the artist clearly want us to see the aquarium here. idk what she talking about. xd