Throughout each of the many lessons in this series titled, Illustrator: Mastering The Fundamentals, students are introduced to this powerful vector image creation program, which is a staple for professional designers everywhere. After becoming familiar with the Illustrator’s user interface, students will go on to learn step-by-step how simple it is to create complex vector shapes using the powerful tools available within Illustrator.
The team here at School of Game Design have been working in the 3D industry for over 15 years. We have worked for major 3D companies such as Pixologic and have taught classes at major film and game studios like Industrial Light and Magic and Ubisoft. We have a passion for sharing our knowledge of the digital arts with others, and have created hundreds of hours of online training. We have Autodesk and Pixologic certified instructors and self-admittedly are always a student themselves as we never stop learning the latest tools and techniques.
Where to download Illustrator
This video tutorial shows you where you can download the latest version of Adobe Illustrator.
Creating a new document
This training video will show you how to create a new blank document in Illustrator.
Navigation
This chapter shows you how to navigate around your document or art board.
Shapes
In this chapter you will learn to create and merge different vector shapes together.
Guides
Here you will learn how to set up guides in Illustrator.
Brushes
This training video will show you the many different brushes you can use in Illustrator.
Text
In this video tutorial you will learn how to create text in Illustrator.
Text on a path
This training video will show you how to create text along a custom path.
Gradients
In this training video we review how to create and modify custom gradients.
Shape builder
This tutorial video will show you how to use the shape builder tool to create and combine shapes.
Grouping
In this chapter we review how to group different objects together.
Layers
In this video tutorial you will learn how to create different layers in Adobe Illustrator.
Rotate and scale
In this training video you will learn about using the rotate and scale tools to edit your vector shapes.
Edit path
This tutorial video will show you how to edit points along paths that you have created.
Pen tool
This tutorial video shows you how to use the pen tool in Illustrator.
