Create Production-Quality Forest Environments From Scratch In UE5.6
Under the guidance of Michael Gerard, you'll learn every stage of the workflow.
Michael Gerard, whose environment art has been featured on our site many times, is offering an in-depth course on creating a complete birch forest environment from scratch.
Spanning 57 hours of step-by-step instruction with English subtitles, Into the Forest covers the entire production pipeline, from building a full tree library and vegetation assets in SpeedTree to assembling the final scene using the latest tools in Unreal Engine. Along the way, you'll learn how to create textures with Quixel Mixer, generate large-scale background terrain with Gaea, and develop all the shaders needed to achieve a production-quality environment.
The course concludes with cinematic 4K renders created using Unreal Engine's Movie Render Queue.
Here's the full list of chapters:
- Aspen Trees (Complete Creation - SpeedTree 10) - (10h11);
- Bark & Foliage Advanced Shader (UE5.6) - (4h26);
- Ground Foliage (Complete Creation - SpeedTree 10) - (3h32);
- Procedural Landscape Shader & Quixel Mixer Textures (UE5.6 & Quixel Mixer) - (7h45);
- Advanced Tessellated Path (Quixel Mixer & UE5.6) - (2h26);
- PCG Trees (UE5.6) - (2h04);
- Scene Creation Part 1 - Main Scene Layout (UE5) - (3h38);
- Scene Creation Part 2 - Custom Water Shader (UE5 & Quixel Mixer) - (2h28);
- Scene Creation Part 3 - Distant Mountains (Gaea 2 & UE5) - (3h21);
- Scene Creation Part 4 - Custom Megascans Shader (UE5) - (2h09);
- Scene Creation Part 5 - PCG for Details (UE5) - (3h41);
- Scene Creation Part 6 - Wind (SpeedTree & UE5) - (3h17);
- Scene Creation Part 7 - Trees & Ground Foliage Variations (SpeedTree & UE5) - (2h12);
- Scene Creation Part 8 - VFX with Niagara & Local Volumetric Fog (UE5) - (3h25);
- Scene Creation Part 9 - Final Rework & Renderings with Movie Render Queue (UE5) - (2h39)
Into the Forest is designed specifically for Unreal Engine 5.6.1. Using UE5.7 and beyond may result in compatibility issues and unexpected behavior, not covered in the course. Basic knowledge of Unreal Engine and an understanding of SpeedTree fundamentals are recommended before taking this course.
Purchase Into the Forest here.
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