Build your own 2D and 3D game assets!
The release of high-quality digital art tools has empowered developers to customize their games with unique art and assets that they’ve created themselves.
Without needing to spend money on custom commissions or high-priced pre-made assets, you can take full control of your game, and reap all the rewards.
Game Artwork Academy
Game Artwork Academy is the most comprehensive collection of courses on creating custom 2D and 3D game assets. You’ll create 2D and 3D game assets in a variety of styles, including pixel art, vector art, and 3D models.
You’ll learn how to use popular tools like Blender, Photoshop, MagicaVoxel, GIMP, and Inkscape by creating real assets that can be used in your engine of choice.
Learn All About
- 3D modeling basics
- Voxel model creation
- Pixel art painting
- Vector art techniques
- Exporting & importing assets
Your Game Art Portfolio
Create a portfolio of game art assets, including:
Curriculum
- Scalable vector art with Inkscape
- Pixel art with Photoshop & GIMP
- Troubleshooting common issues
- 3D models with Blender
- Rigging and texturing models
- Voxel art with MagicaVoxel
- Exporting models
Why Create Game Art
These days, developers have a ton of tools at their disposal – including digital art programs. These popular tools all achieve extremely high rankings, ensuring that with the right skills, you can create high-quality assets and customize the appearance of your game – sometimes without spending a cent.
By making your game look unique, it’s more likely to stand out from the crowd… and achieve greater success.
WHO CAN TAKE THESE COURSES?
We start with the absolute basics and go through everything step-by-step – so even if you have zero experience in programming, you’ll be able to easily follow along.
More experienced? Whether you’re wanting to brush up, expand your skills, or learn a new technology, our courses are structured in a way that makes it easy to skip ahead to the lessons that are relevant and interesting to you.
REINFORCE YOUR LEARNING
Zenva’s courses feature quick challenges that will speed up your learning.
Access live coding lessons where you can practice coding right in your browser, and instantly see the results of any changes you make to the code:
Reinforce key concepts with in-course quizzes, which appear throughout courses:
COURSES BY THE WORLD’S BEST
Our course instructors aren’t just fun to learn from – they’re also serious gamers, qualified coders, and have been formally certified by Unity Technologies and CompTIA for their excellent programming and teaching skills. That way, you can be confident that you’re developing strong, modern skills that will set you up for success as a game developer.
YOUR COURSES, YOUR WAY
Learn with project-based courses that are designed to be flexible – access them 24/7, fit them around your schedule, and choose the learning materials that suit you best.
With an online platform optimized for all modern devices, you can even learn on the go!
✅ Watch video lessons
✅ Download course printouts
✅ Explore interactive lessons
✅ Practice with source code
✅ Build real projects
✅ Earn completion certificates
ACHIEVE REAL RESULTS
Our community of 1,000,000+ learners and developers have used the skills learned with us to publish their own games and websites, land their dream jobs, and even start their own businesses – and you have the potential to do the same!
Check out what our learners think below:
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MIHIR PATEL
I love the lectures, concise course objectives, and how they not only teach you enough to get started, but prepare you for the advanced stuff later down the road.
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MONICA MANCUSI
With Zenva, I started learning a more accurate way to approach problems and develop solutions. It’s full of interesting topics that I love to learn in conjunction with my work.
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CRAIG BICKFORD
I chose Zenva because of the large selection of topics and the fact that I can choose what courses I want to take whenever I want to take them. That level of freedom is unique to Zenva.
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ANDREA CARDENAS-ROEDER
The Unity courses at Zenva helped me achieve a level of comfort with game development that I didn’t think was possible. They give you the confidence to expand your skills, and were so easy to understand.
