Intro to Environment Art with Andres Rodriguez

Recording of Live Session on August 19th 2016 with Andres Rodriguez as we discussed what it takes to get into the industry- as environment artists -these days and also take a look some of the work he did for Uncharted 4.

[PolygonAcademy]

really awesome talk! even as someone who has been in the industry for the last 12 years I found some nuggets of gold in there! Naughty Dog is constantly inspiring with their insane level of quality. thanks for sharing!

[brenttassell]

really great advice, well grounded & simple to digest. Thanks. Really inspirational.

[xPancakeslyf]

I won't ever take this, beautiful, information for granted!

[openarcanastudio]

this is an awesome Q and A. Thank you for posting this. Power to sharing knowledge.

[johnmccormick]

Good line of questioning and insightful answers, thanks guys

[komradkyle]

Really solid advice in this one, I liked seeing the breakdown from blockout to final process. Thanks Andres and Manny!

[CyberVikingGaming]

Was just working on a "re design" of some EQ2 environments while listening to this. Was grabbing some reference photos when I heard him say he worked on the game, and almost choked on my coffee lol

[yuraponomarenko]

Thank you very much for such explanation of process! I love these types of videos

[ZachBush]

Man, why didn't I see this video and class before October!? Next time I will definitely take a class similar to this.

[DAntoine]

Great advice guys, really good listen at work!

[improvementTime..]

50:02 learn all basics to environment modeling
= maya) all environment pieces modeling and unwrapping all in Maya

Uses mud box for brick = organic detailing that easier to do in a organic sculpting program = zbrush is fine as well instead of mudbox
The rest of the architecture = columns, windows, etc don’t need the extra mudbox step cus they dint need that organic breakdown like the brick

[UpsideDownTutorials]

Nice video, keep it up, there are many topics you discussed that are very important for starting artists.

[AlexsandrCody]

Nice Q&A!!! Super useful! Thanks a lot!

[Extrone]

Thanks. And I am really happy that I Got my students license on substance designer today 😄

[_xkim]

That was really informative and helpful for me! Thank you mate.

[Lync]

So are you saying that ( Speed Tree ) would not have been a great tool to use? Or is the old way a faster way of creating foliage assets?

[casperwermuth]

Does anyone know what class is being mentioned at 53:44? Clinton's class?

[SOGMAONE]

so is this a grey box level a finished concept image using photoshop. or is this pic all in game screenshot with real models?

[erict.jb.]

this was very insightful, liked and subbed!

[jarabito]

WOW
amazing
speechless
Peace, love and tequila