Technical Art Skills Development & Reading List

UI

• Dynamic UI
• Responsive design & implementation
• Screen & World Space UI

Optimisation & Best Practice

• Asset bench-marking
• Profiling tests
• LODs
• Evaluate and optimise compound and Mesh Colliders

Rigging, Animation & Simulation

• State machines
• Soft body physics
• Rigid body physics
• Cloth
• Joints
• IK & FK
• Ragdoll physics
• Blending animations
• Animation curves
• Animation Events
• Implement and map Humanoid and Generic Rig animation types
• Physics Materials

Texturing

• Procedural Techniques

Lighting & Rendering

• Post-Processing
• Ray-tracing
• PBR

Shaders & Graphics Programming

• Graphics Pipeline
• Buffers
• Lighting models
• Shading methods
• Render to texture
• Tesselator
• Vertex Shader
• Fragment Shader
• Geometry shader
• Compute shader

VFX

• Particle System customisation and extension
• Procedural techniques
• Fluid animation

Tooling & Pipeline

• Asset customisation
• Process automation using custom tools
• Editor customisation
• Documentation: asset budgets, standards and guidelines

Software

• 2D Animation
  • Spine
  • Unity Anima 2D
• 3D Modelling & Animation
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Autodesk 3Ds Max
  • ZBrush
  • Blender
• Texturing
  • Substance Painter
• Procedural
  • Substance Designer
  • Houdini
• Game Engines & Workflow
  • Unity
    • Shadergraph
    • VFX Graph
    • Playables
    • Timelines
    • Cinemachine
    • Addressables
    • DOTween
  • Unreal Engine
    • Material Editor
    • Blueprint
  • Git / SVN Source Control

Programming Languages:

• HLSL
• GLSL
• Cg
• Python
• C++
• C#

Maths & Physics:

• Linear Algebra
• Transportation of formulae
• Coordinate geometry
• Vectors
• Matrix transformations
• Viewing transformations
• Projection matrices
• Kinematics
• Newtonian concepts