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WHY PICK MENTORSHIPS

Built Around Your Goals

Work with your mentor to create a learning plan tailored to your interests, skill level, and goals.

One-on-One Sessions

Receive personalized guidance and attention throughout your mentorship.

Flexible Project Selection

Work on an existing project or start something new that aligns with your goals.

Learn From An Expert

Benefit from your mentor's expertise. Gain insight into professional workflows, pipelines, and industry best practices.

HOW MENTORSHIPS WORK

Define Your Goals

Work with your mentor to establish a clear direction and plan to reach your goals.


Create a Project

Apply your learning to a project that aligns with your interests and objectives.

Receive Ongoing Feedback

Improve through regular critiques, paintovers, demos, and discussions.

Track Your Progress

Stay accountable through milestone reviews and regular check-ins.

ALL MENTORSHIPS

During your 1-1 lighting art mentorship with nDreams’ Lighting Artist Elliott McSherry, you will learn to create lighting in both a visual and performant manner. Lighting is one of the most expensive features of a video game production, so crafting beautifully lit worlds that are also performant is crucial.

Build AAA-quality game environments with personalised 1-on-1 environment art mentorship from Principal Environment Artist Ben Keeling, specialising in hard-surface, richly detailed environments, modular workflows and materials. 

Great materials are about more than just creating textures. They’re about understanding how materials, shaders, lighting, and rendering work together in a real-time production pipeline. In this material art mentorship with Zeromatter’s Staff Material Artist Hugh Chew, you will develop both the artistic and technical skills needed to create production-ready materials for modern games.

Create believable natural environments for games with personalized 1-on-1 Organic Environment Art Mentorship from Senior Environment Artist Peyton Varney, specializing in organic world building and vegetation creation. 

In this personalised Concept Art Mentorship, Dave will utilise his skills to help you overcome that obstacle. Working directly with Dave, he will help guide you to create a high-quality concept art portfolio and provide you a deeper understanding of the expectations of working in the industry.

Jeryce brings a strong storytelling approach to both his professional and personal work, drawing inspiration from African art and culture to create a distinctive and cohesive portfolio. In this Environment Art Mentorship, he helps artists develop a visual identity and how to make intentional design choices that give their environments more purpose and clarity.

Navigating a career in game development can be daunting, with countless paths and decisions along the way. And, it’s not always easy to see where your strengths fit best or which direction to take next. This Game Dev Career Coaching mentorship will help you assess your abilities and plan the steps needed to reach your goals in the games industry, giving you clarity, confidence, and excitement for the journey ahead.

In this Level Design Mentorship, Senior Level Designer Jack Burrows will guide you one-on-one through building comprehensive game systems and level frameworks for your personal projects, giving you the guidance and insights to overcome these challenges.

Elevate your game art portfolio with a 1-1 environment art mentorship with Sr. Environment Artist, Jon Arellano. During this mentorship, you will create a complete 3D environment art project from concept to final render under Jon’s expert guidance.

Get personalized guidance from Naughty Dog’s Gabriel Cervantes in this Environment Art Mentorship, with live demos centered around highly used environment pipeline techniques, progress reviews, and detailed paintovers to refine and strengthen your work.

In this Environment Art Mentorship with Naughty Dog’s Senior Environment Artist Sarah Swenson, you will learn not only the how of environment art, but also understand the why – why a composition draws the eye, why modular workflows matter, and why strong storytelling makes a world memorable.

During your 1-1 lighting art mentorship with nDreams’ Lighting Artist Elliott McSherry, you will learn to create lighting in both a visual and performant manner. Lighting is one of the most expensive features of a video game production, so crafting beautifully lit worlds that are also performant is crucial.

Build AAA-quality game environments with personalised 1-on-1 environment art mentorship from Principal Environment Artist Ben Keeling, specialising in hard-surface, richly detailed environments, modular workflows and materials. 

Great materials are about more than just creating textures. They’re about understanding how materials, shaders, lighting, and rendering work together in a real-time production pipeline. In this material art mentorship with Zeromatter’s Staff Material Artist Hugh Chew, you will develop both the artistic and technical skills needed to create production-ready materials for modern games.

Create believable natural environments for games with personalized 1-on-1 Organic Environment Art Mentorship from Senior Environment Artist Peyton Varney, specializing in organic world building and vegetation creation. 

Jeryce brings a strong storytelling approach to both his professional and personal work, drawing inspiration from African art and culture to create a distinctive and cohesive portfolio. In this Environment Art Mentorship, he helps artists develop a visual identity and how to make intentional design choices that give their environments more purpose and clarity.

Elevate your game art portfolio with a 1-1 environment art mentorship with Sr. Environment Artist, Jon Arellano. During this mentorship, you will create a complete 3D environment art project from concept to final render under Jon’s expert guidance.

Get personalized guidance from Naughty Dog’s Gabriel Cervantes in this Environment Art Mentorship, with live demos centered around highly used environment pipeline techniques, progress reviews, and detailed paintovers to refine and strengthen your work.

In this Environment Art Mentorship with Naughty Dog’s Senior Environment Artist Sarah Swenson, you will learn not only the how of environment art, but also understand the why – why a composition draws the eye, why modular workflows matter, and why strong storytelling makes a world memorable.

Navigating a career in game development can be daunting, with countless paths and decisions along the way. And, it’s not always easy to see where your strengths fit best or which direction to take next. This Game Dev Career Coaching mentorship will help you assess your abilities and plan the steps needed to reach your goals in the games industry, giving you clarity, confidence, and excitement for the journey ahead.

In this Level Design Mentorship, Senior Level Designer Jack Burrows will guide you one-on-one through building comprehensive game systems and level frameworks for your personal projects, giving you the guidance and insights to overcome these challenges.

In this personalised Concept Art Mentorship, Dave will utilise his skills to help you overcome that obstacle. Working directly with Dave, he will help guide you to create a high-quality concept art portfolio and provide you a deeper understanding of the expectations of working in the industry.

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