What artistic skills to be learned for environment artists??
polycounter lvl 2
I have started the path by modeling props and texturing them, but I still don't know what artistic skills should I learn to be an environment artist who is responsible of a whole environment. Anyone have any tips in this topic??
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Modular building, lighting, material creation, world building/environmental storytelling, and many other skills are good to know. The polycount wiki is a good place to start as each of these topics can take you down a pretty deep rabbit hole http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Environment
from a technical standpoint, get comfortable with using modular kits and re-using a ton of tiling and trim textures to build environments with a few core sets of materials. most environment work is made with tiling textures and trims while props and assets tend to be unique unwraps.
and if you can get really good at lighting thats a super strong bonus skill to develop, or....make some badass environments and partner with a lighting artist to get the most bang for your buck, its win/win for the both of you then.
I took a year studying how humans react to color and it changed my entire worldview on art forever.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-color-red-influences-our-behavior/
https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/color-meanings-theory-psychology/
Essentially just tiled textures that contain multiple strips of "trim" and other details that you can quickly UV bits of geometry to in order to get extra detail in your scene without uniquely modeling/baking.
had this same question on my mind, thank you