3 years. One mentor. 30+ instructors.

What you see on the other cards is just a sample. These courses represent roughly one-third of our actual three-year curriculum. We cover every single step from raw foundational draftsmanship to AA-AAA studio readiness, ensuring you have the exact tools required for your specific department. The complete curriculum is designed to adapt to your growth, moving you from generalist fundamentals into highly specialized, production-ready workflows.

In Year 1, we do not just copy life models; we engineer the human body. This course teaches you constructive anatomy—breaking down complex muscle groups and bone structures into simple, rotatable 3D forms. You will learn how to build characters from the inside out, allowing you to pose them dynamically from your imagination without being paralyzed when you don't have the perfect reference photo. We focus heavily on the line of action, clear silhouettes, and the illusion of weight, ensuring your poses actually communicate a character's attitude, class, and story. This is the absolute bedrock of functional character concept art. Student Outputs: Structural anatomy breakdowns, dynamic gesture sheets, and a foundational character lineup emphasizing clear silhouettes and attitude.

Stylization isn't just drawing cartoons; it is the deliberate abstraction and simplification of reality to create a unique visual language. This course breaks down the mechanics of creating a cohesive style by comparing strict realism against heavy stylization. You will design a lineup of props for a specific fictional universe, learning how to categorize your stylization choices across shapes, proportions, and textures. We will explore how pushing a silhouette into chunky, oversized forms or using clean, graphic line weights completely alters the read of an object. Whether you are aiming for a graphic sci-fi aesthetic or a heavily textured, painterly dark fantasy vibe, you will learn to make confident, stylized design choices that a 3D team can actually interpret. Student Outputs: Style guide breakdown sheet, iterative prop sketches, and a final fully rendered stylized prop lineup.

This course is a workshop between traditional observation and digital illustration. We ditch the screens for the first week to paint plein air, focusing heavily on how natural light actually behaves, nailing atmospheric perspective, simplifying your "big read" into just a few core value shapes, and pushing warm and cool color temperatures. After that, we head back into the studio. You'll take your strongest plein air composition and up-res it into a fantasy keyframe using Photoshop or Procreate. We focus on translating those traditional paint textures and lost edges digitally, layering in narrative props, and grading the palette to hit a specific mood.

+Student Outputs: Fully rendered fantasy environment keyframe, traditional plein air studies, and value/composition sketches.

This course breaks down the core principles of architectural design for environment concept art using purely 2D drawing and painting techniques. We focus heavily on draftsmanship, perspective, and understanding how real-world structures are built before breaking the rules for fantasy or sci-fi. You'll learn how to analyze historical references, extract compelling shape language, and combine different architectural styles to create original, believable buildings. We cover the logic of weight, function, and materials, ensuring your designs feel grounded and purposeful rather than just looking cool. You'll take a building from a rough thumbnail sketch all the way to a polished line drawing and a final painted callout.

+Student Outputs: Architectural ideation sketches, polished perspective line art, and a fully painted orthographic design sheet.

This course strips back the rendering to focus purely on the mechanics of good concept design. We explore how to manipulate shape language and proportions to communicate specific ideas, whether you're tackling props, characters, or hard surface elements. You'll run through rapid iterative exercises, taking existing forms and completely redesigning them by smashing different functional requirements together with distinct visual styles. We keep everything strictly to 2D line drawing and flat colors so you aren't hiding weak designs behind fancy lighting or brushwork. It's all about making clear, confident design choices that a 3D artist or modeler could actually build from. Student Outputs: Pages of rapid prop and character iterations, functional orthographics, and clean final line art with flat color readouts.

This course strips away the epic fantasy armor to focus entirely on drawing and painting grounded characters with normal, everyday jobs. We walk through the entire pipeline of building a believable person from scratch, starting with structural anatomy, gesture, and finding that perfect, expressive pose that communicates exactly what they do for a living. You will learn how to design functional clothing and practical props that tell a subtle story about their personality and daily life. Once the drawing and underlying structure are locked, we transition into digital painting, pushing form, skin tones, and fabric textures to create a highly polished, studio-ready character concept. Student Outputs: Pages of gesture sketches, functional costume explorations, and a fully rendered, high-fidelity final character painting.

This intensive one-week run is all about using strong foundational figure drawing to drive your character concepts. We start by capturing live gestures and dynamic poses, looking for the narrative and energy inherent in the human form. Once you nail a compelling pose, like a strong, heroic stanec, we lock it in and use it as the chassis to build out a complete character design, layering on armor, clothing, and props. You will work through the rough ideation phase directly over your underlying figure drawing, refining the anatomy and silhouette before taking the design all the way to a fully rendered finish.

+Student Outputs: Pages of dynamic figure drawings, character ideation sketches, and one fully rendered character concept in a dynamic pose.

We hit the streets of Paris to draw local cafés from life, analyzing the functional details of chairs, tables, doors, and windows. Once you have a solid library of observational sketches, we head back to the studio to completely overhaul those exact elements into a cohesive sci-fi setting. Instructors will break down the worldbuilding pipeline, showing you how to establish specific shape languages, tech rules, and cultural logic for your universe. This course is strictly focused on pure 2D drawing and line weight, pushing your draftsmanship to translate real-world mechanics into believable futuristic designs without relying on rendering. Student Outputs: Pages of observational café sketches, sci-fi prop breakdown sheets, and a final sci-fi environment line drawing.

What you see on the other cards is just a sample. These courses represent roughly one-third of our actual three-year curriculum. We cover every single step from raw foundational draftsmanship to AA-AAA studio readiness, ensuring you have the exact tools required for your specific department. The complete curriculum is designed to adapt to your growth, moving you from generalist fundamentals into highly specialized, production-ready workflows.

A believable universe is built on the foundation of its cultures. This course teaches you how to deconstruct real-world ethnography, analyzing how climate, resources, and history organically shape a society's architecture and clothing. We move beyond superficial aesthetics to develop a deep, functional visual language for an original civilization. You will design everything from the macro scale of layered, functional architecture down to the micro scale of intricate armor, ornate textiles, and culturally specific props. By establishing strict rules for patterns, materials, and religious or historical motifs, you ensure your fictional societies feel lived-in, diverse, and historically rich. Student Outputs: Cultural motif breakdown sheets, architectural environment concepts, and a cohesive character costume lineup.

This course is all about staying ahead of the curve by integrating the latest procedural tools and advanced Blender add-ons into your daily pipeline. We move past traditional manual modeling and painting to explore how computational design, complex scattering plugins, and emerging generative software can drastically speed up your ideation phase. You will learn how to automate repetitive tasks, generate massive amounts of visual variation in seconds, and seamlessly integrate those "happy accidents" back into a highly controlled, polished 2D or 3D concept. It's about working smarter, leveraging next-gen tech to handle the heavy lifting so you can focus purely on high-level design and art direction. Student Outputs: Procedural 3D blockouts, rapid algorithmic iterations, and a final highly polished concept art piece.

This course shifts the focus away from pure prop or character design and zeroes in entirely on narrative storytelling for film. You will develop a sequence of keyframes that capture the critical emotional beats of a single script or story moment. We dive deep into cinematic language, exploring how to use camera angles, focal lengths, and composition to direct the viewer's eye and establish a specific mood. The real challenge isn't about inventing complex new assets; it's about maintaining visual continuity, lighting, and pacing across multiple frames to tell a compelling, cohesive story. Student Outputs: A storyboard breakdown, composition value sketches, and a final sequence of fully rendered cinematic keyframes.

This course is a deep dive into pure hard surface modeling and automotive design thinking. We bypass the basics and jump straight into advanced Blender workflows, focusing on edge flow, surface tension, and complex boolean operations to concept functional vehicles. You will learn how to approach transportation design like an industrial designer, thinking critically about chassis, suspension, aerodynamics, and weight distribution. It is all about building complex, believable machines that look like they could actually be manufactured, painted, and driven right off the lot.

Student Outputs: 2D vehicle ideation sketches, advanced 3D blockouts, and a fully rendered, high-poly hard surface vehicle concept.

This course pushes you to design highly imaginative, surreal environments by bending the visual rules of familiar reality. Instead of relying on standard fantasy or sci-fi tropes, we focus on injecting eerie, mystical, and unexpected elements into grounded settings to build completely original worlds. You will explore visual metaphors, atmospheric storytelling, and liminal spaces to craft cinematic concepts that evoke a distinct, lingering mood. We will push your composition and lighting skills to translate abstract feelings into believable, lived-in spaces that feel like they belong to a larger, unseen narrative. Student Outputs: Imaginative environment sketches, mood and lighting color keys, and a final series of surreal cinematic keyframes.

This Year 2 simulation puts you directly into a AAA studio pipeline. The school acts as your art director, handing down a massive, overarching brief for a specific video game level. You will break down into smaller strike teams to tackle specialized tasks, dividing the workload between environment design, character concepts, and functional props. The challenge isn't just creating great art; it's about adapting to an established style guide, communicating across departments, and ensuring every single asset feels like it belongs in the exact same game engine. You have to check your ego at the door, iterate based on strict feedback, and piece together a unified world as a team. Student Outputs: A collaborative pitch deck featuring unified character designs, environment layouts, and production-ready asset callouts.

This course dives deep into advanced industrial design theory, focusing entirely on high-level prop creation for massive sci-fi IPs. You will be tasked with designing a lineup of multiple objects that exist within a single, highly coherent universe. We move beyond just making things look cool by focusing heavily on the emotional resonance and functional logic of each piece, ensuring your designs tell a deeper narrative about the culture and characters that use them. You will tackle complex shape languages, cohesive manufacturing logic, and strict visual rules to make your world feel grounded and real. Student Outputs: A complete prop lineup featuring multiple functional objects, detailed mechanical callouts, and clean orthographic turnarounds.

In Year 2, character design goes beyond just making someone look cool. Heavily inspired by the philosophy of industry veterans like Even Mehl Amundsen, this course teaches you that true character design rises directly out of context. You will learn to establish the "why" before the "what"—analyzing how a fictional world's geography, politics, and history dictate a character's clothing, weapons, and posture. We focus on injecting authenticity into your work by designing characters with a lived-in history, where every scar, material choice, and worn edge serves the narrative. You will learn to prioritize foundational skills over generic industry trends, allowing you to develop a deeply personal aesthetic while grounding your fantasy characters in believable, functional reality.

+Student Outputs: Contextual worldbuilding notes, iterative character sketches, and a final, narrative-driven character illustration.

In Year 2, it is no longer just about painting a cool image; you need to see how your designs actually hold up in a game engine. This course gets you comfortable navigating the Unreal Engine interface so you aren't reliant on a technical artist to import your work. You will learn how to bring your 2D and 3D assets into a playable space, set up basic collisions, and physically run around your own environment. Once the assets are integrated and the scene is dressed, we dive into the Sequencer to set up cameras, establish real-time lighting, and render out quick cinematic animations or fly-throughs to present your concepts exactly how they would look in production. Student Outputs: Integrated custom assets in a playable level, real-time lighting setups, and a short cinematic video sequence.

What you see on the other cards is just a sample. These courses represent roughly one-third of our actual three-year curriculum. We cover every single step from raw foundational draftsmanship to AA-AAA studio readiness, ensuring you have the exact tools required for your specific department. The complete curriculum is designed to adapt to your growth, moving you from generalist fundamentals into highly specialized, production-ready workflows.

Concept art solves production problems, marketing art sells the final game. This course shifts your mindset from functional, orthographic design to high-end, consumer-facing illustration. You will take an existing character or environment and render it to the extreme polish standards of AAA splash art. We focus heavily on dynamic, forced-perspective composition, dramatic storytelling lighting, and hyper-detailed material rendering. You will also learn the commercial constraints of this specific pipeline, such as leaving negative space for game logos, UI elements, and social media cropping, ensuring your illustration works as a functional marketing asset.

Student Outputs: Dynamic composition thumbnails, lighting and color keys, and a final, hyper-polished AAA marketing illustration.

Being a great concept artist does not matter if you cannot take feedback or manage your taxes. This course strips away the drawing to focus entirely on the unglamorous, operational side of the industry. We cover the financial survival skills: invoicing, legal contracts, calculating taxes, and protecting yourself from predatory freelance clients. From there, we dive deep into studio etiquette and soft skills. You will learn how to detach your ego from your work, process brutal art direction without taking it personally, and deliver constructive peer reviews. We roleplay difficult workplace scenarios, teaching you how to navigate office politics, resolve conflicts within a production team, and communicate like a seasoned professional. Student Outputs: A personalized freelance business framework, standard contract templates, and a studio communication playbook.

Your portfolio only works if Art Directors actually see it. This intensive three-day bootcamp strips away the mystery of industry networking and focuses entirely on the business of being a working concept artist. We cover how to optimize your ArtStation for recruiters, how to leverage LinkedIn to bypass gatekeepers, and how to build a professional social media presence without burning out on algorithms. You will learn the harsh realities of freelance contracts, calculating day rates, navigating strict NDAs, and how to confidently pitch yourself to AAA studios or indie developers. It is all about treating your art as a strategic, sustainable business.

+Student Outputs: A fully optimized ArtStation profile, a targeted industry resume, and a personalized 12-month career roadmap.

This is not a traditional class with a set syllabus, it is a completely customized, short-term sprint designed to get you hired. You will work one-on-one with our mentors to ruthlessly audit your existing body of work. We identify the exact gaps in your pipeline, cut the dead weight, and focus entirely on creating or polishing the specific pieces you need to land a targeted role. Whether you need to push your rendering to AAA standards or organize your prop callouts for better readability, this bespoke experience treats you like a junior artist receiving direct art direction. Student Outputs: A highly curated, targeted, and polished concept art portfolio ready to be put in front of industry recruiters.

This short, intensive project is all about locking into your specific career path for the game industry. You will not act as a generalist here; if you want to be a character designer, you are only designing characters. If you are an environment artist, you are purely building out playable spaces. You will be handed a tight, studio-style game brief and expected to execute specialized, production-ready assets that fit specific gameplay constraints, camera angles, and technical engine requirements. It is a targeted portfolio builder designed to show art directors and recruiters exactly what department you belong in and that you understand how your specific assets function within a game. Student Outputs: A specialized portfolio piece tailored to game development, including functional production callouts and final asset renders.

This short, intensive project is all about locking into your specific career path for the game industry. You will not act as a generalist here; if you want to be a character designer, you are only designing characters. If you are an environment artist, you are purely building out playable spaces. You will be handed a tight, studio-style game brief and expected to execute specialized, production-ready assets that fit specific gameplay constraints, camera angles, and technical engine requirements. It is a targeted portfolio builder designed to show art directors and recruiters exactly what department you belong in and that you understand how your specific assets function within a game. Student Outputs: A specialized portfolio piece tailored to game development, including functional production callouts and final asset renders.

This is the culmination of your training. Over the next few months, you will execute the original IP you established in the Art Direction phase, turning it into a specialized, studio-ready portfolio. Instead of standard daily classes, you will be paired with an industry mentor who is hand-picked as the best possible match for your specific project and artistic goals. You will treat this like a real-world AAA production, managing your own pipeline, hitting strict weekly delivery milestones, and iterating based on high-level art direction feedback. The entire focus is on producing a cohesive, breathtaking body of work that proves exactly what you can do.

Student Outputs: A complete, professional-grade concept art portfolio centered around a cohesive original IP, ready for studio applications.

This Year 3 course is the incubator for your graduation project. You are no longer just designing standalone assets; you are stepping into the role of an Art Director to build a massive, cohesive IP from the ground up. We dive deep into what it actually takes to create a world, establishing the overarching visual rules, shape languages, and cultural logic that will dictate every design choice you make moving forward. You will write the foundational briefs, set the tonal benchmarks, and figure out how to unify environments, characters, and props under a single, unbreakable aesthetic vision.

Student Outputs: A comprehensive art direction bible, visual benchmark illustrations, and a final IP pitch deck for your graduation project.

In this intensive six-week studio simulation, you are grouped with other students to act as a complete art department developing a unified game pitch. Whether your team is tackling a highly stylized platformer or a gritty, realistic RPG, you will stay strictly within your chosen specialty—focusing only on character, environment, or prop design. The core challenge here is communication and art direction cohesion. You have to ensure your specific assets fit perfectly with what the rest of your team is building, sharing a single shape language, color palette, and worldbuilding logic. It is a true test of pipeline adaptability, requiring you to iterate based on team feedback, hand off functional designs, and piece together a massive, unified world without letting your personal ego break the established art style. Student Outputs: A collaborative game pitch deck featuring cohesive characters, environments, and props tailored to a specific art style.