Watch CRYENGINE Summer Academy episode 4, covering environment art and design with special guest Principal 3D Environment Artist Tom Deerberg.

Join us for the next episode of our CRYENGINE Summer Academy, a fifteen-part series for newcomers to CRYENGINE and those who already have some game dev experience. Learn the fundamentals of game development with your host Junior Evangelist Roman Perezogin, who uses a prototype platforming game called Breeze as a learning aid.

Today's episode focuses on environment art and design. Roman is joined by a very special guest, Tom Deerberg, Principal 3D Environment Artist, a highly experienced Crytek veteran who has worked on our Crysis franchise, The Climb games, and Hunt Showdown, amongst others.

In this video, Roman and Tom discuss the workflow for the stylized assets that feature in Breeze, and Tom gives his advice for developers taking their first steps into game-making and starting out with CRYENGINE. He reveals the importance of planning ahead for a new project and why time spent building a collection of reference images before you start modeling assets will pay off. Throughout the video, Tom gives fascinating insights about creating AAA games, his own indie passion project, Ramiwo, and discusses workflows you can apply to your own projects. This episode runs for over an hour and is packed full of great recommendations, tips, guidance, and lessons.

New to the series? Catch up here:

Episode 1: Course introduction, plus basic game dev techniques, including making a character move.

Episode 2: Use the Cry Designer tool to quickly prototype levels and game mechanics.

Episode 3: Create an island map in minutes with procedural tools.

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