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Whether you want to learn Unreal Engine to work on AAA games, or you're exploring a career in realtime 3D and virtual production, CG Spectrum's introductory and advanced Unreal Engine courses and industry mentors are here to get you industry-ready.
Why learn Unreal Engine at CG Spectrum:
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As an Unreal Academic Partner, Unreal Authorized Training Center, and top-ranked online school with students and mentors in more than 60 countries, CG Spectrum is proud to offer online Unreal Engine training specializing in game development, real-time 3D technical art and virtual production.
From introductory to advanced courses, CG Spectrum's Unreal Engine programs have been created in partnership with Epic Games plus veteran game developers, real-time artists and other film and game industry professionals.
Each comprehensive, job-focused study pathway ensures graduates are well-positioned to enter the video game and film industry and make a productive contribution from day one on the job.
Ready to gain speed and confidence with Unreal Engine, learn cutting edge techniques, and create high-quality work for your professional portfolio to show prospective employers? Enquire now!
Get a more personalized education with expert game developers and realtime artists as your mentors! Graduate with the skills and confidence to pursue your dream career.
Plan studies around your work and family commitments
Learn from experts who have worked on major films & games
Build practical and relevant job skills studios are hiring for
Pursue your passion and start working sooner
Get more out of your education! Enjoy an industry-approved curriculum, live weekly sessions with your mentor, personalized feedback, plus support, industry insights, and networking in our amazing online community.
Master the fundamentals of 3D modeling, animation and FX for games. With an industry mentor guiding you each week, you'll get insight into the video game industry, and gain speed and confidence using Unreal Engine, Maya and Substance Painter as you create original work for your portfolio!
Learn game art essentials and build your own game in Unreal Engine! You'll learn about character rigging and animation, and create 3D assets which you'll import into Unreal Engine. There you'll set up and animate your characters, use AI interaction, create a combat cycle, add FX, and populate your game environment. Finish with a fully executable, playable game.
Start your journey as a game designer! Using real-world case studies, you'll learn how to deconstruct games and design your own in Unreal Engine. You'll also learn other valuable job skills such as documenting and pitching your game. Finish with a fully playable game for your portfolio!
A fantastic entry-level course for aspiring designers. Start with basic game design theory to understand how games should be designed to make them fun and addicting. Find out how to properly analyze games, design and document your own, and make a gameplay prototype in Unreal Engine.
Great ideas are a dime a dozen in the world of game development; being able to execute them well is more important. Learn how to validate and express your game ideas and bring them to life in a playable game prototype, build immersive game levels, combine gameplay systems to create more engaging experiences, and see what it takes to launch a successful game. This course also includes 1-on-1 career support to prepare you for a career in game development.
Go from inexperienced programmer to capable Unreal Engine developer! Once you've learned C++, begin building fun 2D and 3D levels with fully interactive animated characters. Finish with a playable game and a great understanding of UE's user interface and tools.
Ideal game programming course for beginners with little or no coding knowledge! You'll learn C++ and start building your first game. In just 3 months, you'll be feeling more confident with this programming language, and ready to bring your game ideas to life.
Learn advanced game programming with Unreal Engine. This course covers more complex techniques with a focus on career development to help you build the skills studios are hiring for, including more advanced uses of Unreal Engine such as character animations, particle effects, serialization, loading, and streaming levels. Build a fully playable game for your portfolio and get 1-on-1 career support to prepare for work in a game studio.
Take the first steps towards your career as a realtime 3D technical artist! Learn how to build incredible 3D worlds and create a film quality cinematic shot using Unreal Engine. With a realtime artist as your mentor, you'll learn practical job skills and understand how to apply them in the real world for job roles on a stage volume.
Enter the exciting world of Unreal with this realtime 3D course for beginners! Go from simply installing the engine to creating a fully animated playable character in Unreal. You'll develop a broad knowledge of the game engine and surrounding pipelines including basic rigging and motion capture.
Discover how to build film quality cinematic shots from scratch! Learn to build 3D environments, work with virtual cameras, rigs, lights, atmospherics, and create your very own world with digital humans. Graduate with a high quality scene for your portfolio and get 1-on-1 career support to kick-start your career.
Unreal Connectors is the first micro-credentialing program dedicated to teaching artists virtual production. Created in partnership with Epic Games, this 12-week intensive is for production professionals (filmmakers, content creators, animators, game developers, archviz and VFX artists) who want to expand their role, upgrade their skills, or start a new career, as well as studios looking to power up their teams and increase their real-time production services.
Expect highly personalized training with just 4 participants for every 1 industry mentor, expert feedback and support with 5 live sessions each week, and technical assistants on hand to help with troubleshooting.
A complete study pathway to help you become a 3D visualization artist with opportunities to specialize in a range of exciting fields—such as architectural visualization (archviz), product visualization, industrial visualization, and 3D roles in films and games—as you progress in your studies.
Led by industry experts, you'll learn how to master industry software, including 3ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop, and Unreal Engine, to translate ideas into the digital 3D space. Establish accurate and cinematic representations of what buildings, sets, and landscapes will look like before they're even built!
Learn from passionate industry veterans with years of real-world experience at major studios on AAA and best-selling video games.
Scot helped create the first Advanced Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, and was responsible for hits like Falcon 3.0, Crimson Skies, 007: Everything or Nothing and DMC.
Director of Game Development
Known for DMC
While at Ubisoft, AAA programmer Firas released almost a game a year including Far Cry 3, 4, 5, Assassin's Creed 3, Your Shape, Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Watchdogs 2 and 3.
Dept. Head of Game Programming
Known for Assassin's Creed 3
Troy is an award-winning game designer and executive with over 25 yrs of game development experience at major companies like Microsoft, Ubisoft, Insomniac, EA, Disney, and Samsung.
Curriculum Manager of Game Design
Known for Resistance: Fall of Man
While at award-winning game studio Blazing Griffin, Michael released titles like Murderous Pursuits, The Ship: Remasted, Distant Star: Revenant Fleet and Dino Tribes.
Mentor of Game Design
Known for Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
After 20 years in the industry, AAA game expert Bryan has worked on titles like Too Human, X-Men: Destiny, Rollers of the Realm, Debris, and now Far Cry 6.
Mentor of Game Programming
Known for Far Cry 6
Justin has brought dozens of games to life in his 2-decade career. Credits include Tony Hawk, Mortal Kombat, and other AAA titles like Singularity and Stranglehold.
Mentor of Foundations
Known for Mortal Kombat Franchise
Deepak is the Producer for film, TV, and virtual production at Epic Games' Unreal Online Learning platform and is sharing his real time production expertise with students at CG Spectrum.
Mentor of Virtual Production
Known for Gen: Lock
Jon currently works as a Lead Character Technical Artist at Striking Distance Studios where he loves solving problems and helping teams in as many ways as he can.
Mentor of Real-Time 3D
Known for Marvel's Avengers
From indie dev to AAA dev, Elias is an animation programmer at Build a Rocket Boy Studio where he's working on soon-to-be-released game, Everywhere.
Mentor of Game Programming
Known for Past Cure
Will has taught games programming as a University lecturer before working on the Horizon franchise. Since then he started his own company and works with other studios on a number of exciting projects.
Mentor of Game Programming
Known for Sniper Elite III: Afrika
Rob has developed games and experiences for a number of platforms from mobile and desktop to virtual reality. He specializes in creating gameplay mechanics and quick-fire game prototypes for a number of video game companies.
Mentor of Game Programming
Known for Dev Enabled
With over 6 years of experience in the game industry, Ming has worked for Ubisoft, Activision, and Gameloft. He has also applied his programming skills in a wide range of areas.
Mentor of Game Programming
Known for Tom Clancy's EndWar
AAA Game Designer Heath has 13+ years' experience top studios in North America and Australia on The Amazing Spider-Man, Hitman, and The Tomb Raider franchise.
Mentor of Game Design
Known for Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Daniel has experience in game development as well as other applications. He contributed to Marvel Super Hero Squad and was a member of the Need for Speed: No Limits team.
Mentor of Game Programming
Known for Marvel Super Hero Squad
An amazing journey!
This course is a complete package with the goal of helping us conquer our dream job! I didn't expect to find a C++ programming course aimed at the gaming industry and of such quality. The big difference the guidance of a high-level professional: Bryan Griffiths in my case! In addition to masterfully explaining technical questions, he shares immeasurable knowledge of the industry.
If you like games and coding this is a course you don't want to miss!
I started with no previous programming experience and I am already coding my own games from scratch. Firas is an incredible mentor who has encouraged me to stay curious and think outside the box. His support has exponentially increased my progress!
CG Spectrum is helping me grow as a game designer and as a person.
Both my mentor Andrejs Verlis and Dept. Head, Troy Dunniway, have been so encouraging and empowering. It doesn’t even feel like school. I’m finally seeing so many of my interests culminate, and I’m excited to leverage the great networking and career development here for a beautiful future.
All-encompassing 'under the hood' vocational platform for aspiring AAA designers.
The course spells out all the skills you need to succeed in a AAA studio and then gives you the resources to do it for yourself. My mentor takes great interest in steering and supporting me through the design of my own major game concept. I recommend this course to anyone who is up for the challenge of learning to conceive and design their own games, then bringing them to life as working prototypes.
Email: hello@cgspectrum.com