Game Art Courses

Online video game design courses for individual enrollment

Game art and design courses explore animation techniques, 3D modeling, 2D texturing, and video game theory. Take online video game design courses to help build your skills for work in is exciting industry.

If you are totally new to the game art and design field, learn about the genres and career options available in the Intro to Game Development course and learn how to write top-notch game reviews in the Game Analysis and Criticism course. And if designing for 3D seems daunting right now, try Flash Basics and Flash ActionScript Game Design to work on 2D Web-based games, and Photoshop for Game Artists to learn the 2D imaging techniques that bring 3D models to life.

When you are ready to go 3D, kick things off with Maya Basics to create character and environment models, then learn to texture and light them with Tiling Textures and Game Lighting and Color. Advanced students, don't miss Character Setup and Rigging, Character Animation, and Maya Advanced.

Finally, if you have a great idea for a video game and want to learn how to turn it into a project plan, check out Game Design Documents.

Click on any of the alphabetically listed courses below to read a complete syllabus of requirements, instructors, objectives, and a course outline:

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Image of online video game design course work 3D model by instructor Jesse Brophy from the Game Lighting and Color course. Learn modeling and texturing in online video game design courses.


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