The goal of the course is to give Artists full control on Substance Designer with an in-deep technical knowledge and a strong workflow to generate any type of realistic material.
It does not matter if you just started or you’re an expert with Substance Designer. We’ve been working for the last 2 year to provide you a strong (but easy to follow) pipeline of work.
Substance Designer is a great software but we need to get some background informations about shading to fully get its potential. Get all the base knowledge about phisically based materials and how to handle informations from the real world.
When you start Substance Designer the first time there’s a main setup you should run to get a perfect preview of what you’re working on. Learn how to setup a material that works fine regardless the rendering engine you’ll use.
The first step to create a great shader is to get the Height Map right. You’ll be guided through this main stage with a strong technical theory and lots of examples and exercises. Drawing the basic shape of your materials may looks easy but there’s a lot of tips and tricks you’ll see to speed up the process and generate a precise map of your base texture.
Learn how to go from a simple shape to a three-dimensional silhouette. You’ll see lots of different examples you can easily re-use in your graphs and continue to improve by yourself.
Thanks to Allegorithmic’s collaboration, you’ll get a 2 free months subscription to the Substance suite and we’ll share with you assets to continue your tests. The only thing you need to bring here is your hard-drive!
Real world is never perfect. Learn how to use references and understand what kind of deformation to use depending on different factors like a material directions or areas mixing together.
Learn how to copy from the real world and translate what you see in nodes. Details are what you need to make right to get a convincing result.
Learn how to extract custom masks and details from your graph to create great diffuse maps. Dirt and Cavity maps will also help you to get that extra realism to bring your shader to the top.
Glossiness / Roughness are something you need to work on and improve. Learn how to create custom nodes you can reuse to generate your own library of grunge maps and save production time.
Once your materials are done, why not mixing them? Learn about the right pipeline to blend shaders together, get amazing effects and brand new results effortless.
Substance Designer can also help you automate repetitive tasks or just turn complicated ideas into something easy to manage (like a stone-wall material that changes stone type around the edges).
You can import your unwrapped 3d models in Substance Designer and preview your shaders in real time. Learn how to get the most out of the baking system, create custom masks and ready-to-go channel packed textures.
Each student can work on his own material and get costant feedbacks from the teachers. We also provide you a library of pre-made materials you can study and also a full 3d interior scene to test your shaders.
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Substance Designer Advanced Course
Substance Designer 2018.3.x
Base knowledge of Substance Designer Interface.
12 seats.
~ 40 hours.
Official SOA Substance Designer Certification
€ 1,550 + 22% VAT (+ € 55.00 admin fee).
Here are some questions related to our courses and facilities that SoA Academy students frequently ask. If you
can’t find an answer to your doubts, send us an email and we’ll give you a reply soon. There are no silly
questions but only clever answers.
Novice courses are for artists who are moving the first steps in the Architectural Visualisation field and need the basic knowledge to start from scratch. If you want to start learning without losing further time, these are the courses for you.
The Advanced Courses are for artists who have some kind of experience in the 3D world and they want to improve their productivity and skills on specific areas. If you want to reach the top in a short time, these are the courses for you.
The workshop are advanced courses meant for artists who have experience and want to prove themselves through a set of practical exercises. Space to practice with the advise of the teachers.
Masterclasses are the most complete courses at Academy and are meant for artists who want to learn an efficient workflow to create images and architectural videos. From 10 to 100 in few weeks.
The choice of the course depends on you, your skills, your interest and the time you have at your disposal. For example, if you don’t have much time and want to develop specific topics, look at our Advanced courses (the ArchViz is the best if you want to improve lighting and rendering, the Post-production is the best choice if you want to work with photoshop). Anyway, we remind you that the Masterclass is the most complete course we offer because it covers important topics in the Architectural Visualization.
Go to the “calendar” page in our website, click on the course you want to apply and fill the form. As soon as we receive your request, we’ll send you an email with the instructions for the payment and the contract to complete your registration. Once you’ve made the payment, send us a receipt of the bank transfer and the contract signed. This is the only way to book a seat.
The Masterclasses last some weeks (2 or 4) from Monday to Friday with the following timetable: from 9 am to 1 pm / from 2 pm to 6 pm.
The Advance courses last 5 days from Monday to Friday with the following timetable: from 9 am to 1 pm / from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Yes, we do have a waiting list for each course. If you want to be added in a waiting list, send us an email. Attention: the name listing doesn’t grant a seat in the course.
All courses take place in our Academy in Via Monte Popera 4/6 in San Donà di Piave (a city close to Venice – Italy).
No, we don’t.
No, we don’t. The Academy team likes being in contact with the students to instantly solve any kind of problem that might arise. We also think that a face-to-face course is the best way to establish a good relationship with the guys who, in the end, become part of the Academy family. This is the reason why, we don’t have any online courses.
Classes are from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 1pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Some courses are in English and some in Italian. Next to each course listed in the “calendar” webpage, you’ll find the abbreviations ITA or ENG to specify the language used in that course.
The English level used doesn’t require a deep knowledge of the language. The software interfaces are in English and the terms are strictly related to the Architectural Visualization field. Although the teachers are Italian, you don’t need to know Italian to attend a course (unless it is an Italian one).
No, we don’t. Anyway, we are often asked by Italian and worldwide Companies for talented Artists to insert in their Studios. We always pass these offers on to our (ex) students and if they’re interested, they can contact the Studios directly.
Yes, it can. If we don’t reach the minimum number of registrations necessary to make the course start (4/5 people), the course might be cancelled. The people who have already registered will be contacted and they will be able to choose among other options.
Please, look at the “course” page in our website to get the costs (link alla pagina corsi). VAT is not included in the prices listed (+ 22%).
No, you’ll have the time during the classes to exercise, so you won’t have any homework after the classes or in the weekends.
Academy will provide all the materials necessary to attend the courses: notepad, pencil, pen, workstation with the relevant softwares, graphic tablet, keyboard and mouse. We suggest you to take a hard disk with you to save the files you’ve been working on in the course.
No, you don’t. During the course, you’ll use our workstations. Anyway, if you want to exercise in the night hours after class, take it with you!
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