Chapter 5. Buildings

As an environment artist, you can bet that buildings will be a big part of what you do on the job. In fact, most environment artists get their start doing miscellaneous background structures. As you get more experienced and more responsibility, more of the foreground elements will be assigned to you. But even the most experienced environment artists get called upon to do buildings and structures from time to time. The trick is to enjoy it, no matter what level of experience you have!

Understanding Buildings

Just saying the word building can bring up hundreds and thousands of different images in your mind. Or in a Google image search! There are limitless combinations of shapes, styles, and uses for any structure. To create that ...

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