3D Fundamentals

Interactive lessons on the 3D game-art pipeline. Learn by doing — every page has a live 3D view you can manipulate.

Reference

3D Character Pipeline

The six stages every 3D character goes through — modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, animation, and export. Includes skeleton standards and animation libraries.

Pipeline overview Skeleton hierarchy Format standards
Interactive lesson

Surface Lab

Textures, materials, and UV mapping on a hard-surface robot. Swap texture sets, tweak PBR parameters, paint directly on the model, and see how each map affects the final look.

WebGL 3D PBR materials Texture painting
Interactive lesson

Organic Forms

UV unwrapping on curved surfaces — a character head and clothing. Visualize the unfold, compare UV layouts, understand seams and distortion, paint a face.

UV seams Organic unwrap OBJ export

Suggested order

Pipeline overview first for the big picture, then Surface Lab for hands-on material/texture work, then Organic Forms for UV unwrapping on curved geometry.