Introduction to Worldbuilding

1. Introduction to World Building Trailer: How's it going? My name is Stephen Christian. I'm a immerse, a storyteller that makes comics and cartoons that allow you to have fun and learn along the way. Welcome to Introduction to world-building. This is a two-part course that will teach you how to approach building worlds in a way that is relevant to your creative interests and will help improve your creative efficiency. Building worlds allows you to tell stories and create experiences that connect people together in unimaginable ways. More importantly, world-building leads to greater emergent. We see it in movies, video games, and even XR experiences. In this course will build off of whatever world-building knowledge you already have and add new tools and approaches to make world you can interact with. World-building can seem daunting at first. There are many details that go into building the world, but it's not impossible. You will learn how to set those expectations early on. Then build on the ideas over time to reach your angle. Do you need to have any prior experience or knowledge of any tools? Not at all. In fact, I will teach you and introduce you to all the tools that I use to build all of my world. We will build off of any foundations that you have already, regardless of where you're at in your creative journey. Throughout these engaging lessons, you will learn about the foundations of world-building and approaches to exploring the creative process. By the end of this course, you will have a good idea of what world-building is and how to use it to enhance your creative output. We will answer the questions. What is world-building? What are the elements of world-building? Why does world-building matter? How to approach building worlds? How to create immersion in your world, and how to innovate in the world building process. So again, my name is Stephen Christian. I tell immersive stories by making comics and cartoons in. I'm really, really excited for you to go on this journey with me. I developed this process so that it makes it easy for people to get started, even if they don't know where to go. And ultimately be able to create something that is innovative, immersive, and allows you to express yourself in ways that words and possibly pictures can't even. And so building worlds is something special to me. And I hope that this journey that I take you on allows for you to create stuff that is also special to you. And so without further ado, let's go ahead and get started. 2. World Building Part 1 Introduction: Okay, so part one, which is basics and foundations of worldbuilding. The plan for part one is looking at what is world-building, what's the point of it, and why it's important. Elements of world-building. That includes the type of world that you can build. What are the tools to build world? I'll introduce you to my creative process and the workflow that I use to build my world. Also, we will talk about developing a style hit bashing environments. Building characters for your environments and your world. Making your world more dynamic, and then making your world more immersive. Again, this is part one, which is more of the basics and the foundations of stuff. And then part two, we'll start to explore and create our actual world. And so if you already have your foundations, feel free to skip this section. But if you don't, I highly recommend this part. But if you want to jump ahead to just start creating stuff, go ahead and jump to part 2. So the tools you'll need are pretty easy for this section. You'll need a computer, probably some paper. And if you want to use a world-building tool like Scratch or he entity, you could definitely do that. If you don't feel free to just explore whatever tools that you want, your unhindered by this. The main purpose of this workshop, right, is not to teach you how to use the programs or use particular tools. It's really to teach you how to make stuff. And that is essential to the creative process. And so for world-building, world-building is all about exploring your creativity and being able to articulate that in an immersive way. And the long-term girl for this is that this is supposed to just introduce you to things that you can and we will build on we will build our foundation over the next few hours starting now. And we will see where you come from at the end of this. Because we're all building is great and allows for you to really test what you're capable of. And so I'm excited to see what you're all able to come up with. And so let's check out a little demo of a world building project that I did using the process that I'm about to show you. And up and up. That's enough. Hi. 3. What is World Building: And so what is world-building? World-building is a core element of storytelling. And world-building is a term used to describe the process of creating imaginary worlds. Often these worlds are fictional. And because of that, they have inherent qualities that can't be grounded in reality. That means that there's history, There's geography, there's ecology. And essentially most of the stuff that we see around us can be incorporated into the worlds that we are building and engaging with. And so where do you see world? You know, you see them everywhere. That includes novels, video games, movies, comics, sitcoms, all types of things. Anything that is related to entertainment is focused around building worlds. Whether it's Pokemon, Lovecraft, Country, static shock, insecure, or Harry Potter. A variety of mediums have worlds built around them. And the reason we'd like them is because there's characters in these worlds that we enjoy. And do they have to be completely made up? Not at all. You can create a world based off a year life and the world that you live in already. More importantly, the more you make up and the more they're grounded in reality. Being able to marry the two allows for you to make the most impactful and the most immersive worlds possible where it makes sense when you see it. But then there's this fantastical element that allows for you to really explore fantasy and imagine possibilities. And so who can make a world? Who has the opportunity to make worlds? Those who make worlds are called Authors. And honestly, that could be anyone. It's anyone that comes up with an idea and is able to articulate it and share it with others. You can provide a context for those ideas. And you can visualize and have it be grounded in something. You're making a world. And it doesn't have to be a visual medium. It could be audio, or it could be words. Would think of authors is writing novels, but authors are just creators, creators that put ideas out into the world in a variety of mediums and takes us all on a journey that can be either fictional or nonfiction. 4. Why is World Building Important: And so why is world-building important? What is the purpose of building? Will essentially for me, world-building is a core foundation of telling a story. Storage required characters, plot points, themes, and they require worlds that are built. If you don't have a world for your story to take place in, then the story will often feel disjointed in incoherent. So one of the big things about building worlds is it allows for you to communicate ideas to others in a way that makes the people who are communicating with fill a part of it, fill a part of the journey, Philip, part of the process. And so as you were sharing things with them, they're learning about the things that you're creating through the experience of existing. Very much like we learn about things as we built throughout our daily lives. And so as you create something that's more immersive, then you're able to communicate ideas that impact people more deeply. And so why is world-building important? It allows us to share experiences. Storytelling is very, very powerful. And every time someone comes up with the story that resonates with people, it is news that can start national conversations. Often storytelling is used to share experiences and teach lessons to others through immersive experiences. And often want to say, think education and empowerment and entertainment, right? Because education is all about relating information that is relevant to our lives that we can apply. Empowerment is taking that information, that education, and actually filling confident in how we can apply. And then Entertainment is often how we are introduced to the educational and empowering information. We get our entry point through entertainment. We learn through education, and we apply through empowerment. And those are foundations of storytelling where there's a message in the story. This characters that we enjoy. We want to learn more about it and dive deeper into it. And then when we have something that we could pull from, when we're inspired from some of the characters. We include that in our day-to-day living. It's our mission, it's our motto. We often think of the lung, just do it from Nike. Just Do It is often because of Michael Jordan and me are the things that were entertained by. And what he did is he empowered us to not only learn the tools of the trade, but then utilize those to improve our lives. And so this is all a power of storytelling. And based on world-building that has been used to introduce us to things in and keep us going throughout our day. Often we probably won't even know what life is without storytelling. And so being able to create worlds that allow us to tell stories is even more impactful and powerful. And world-building allows you to build a community. But we share our stories and worlds we build, we create experiences that others can connect with. The things we share, our extensions of ourselves, our passions, our fears, sadness, hardship, and joy. And we find common ground with other people so that we can connect and communicate with them. Community is foundational and how we connect with the world and the things around us. Our teachers are a part of our community, are entertainers are a part of our community. Our leaders are part of our community. And so being able to engage in multiple ways and find support to continue doing the work that you wanna do. That's the power of world-building. Whether you need resources, whether you need engagement, whether you need guidance. World-building allows for you to find and share the things that you need. More importantly, world-building is great because it allows you to express yourself in a safe and creative way. This helps us convey meaning and purpose. That helps us understand ourselves better and find commonalities with others. I instantly think about my favorite artists that create either stories or music. Where that creative process and the stuff that they create is a byproduct of what happened in their lives. And so the stepdad is attractive because it's stuff that is relatable. More importantly, if it's relatable, that means that we could pull lessons that we could include into our lives that makes things even more impactful. 5. Elements of world building: So what are the elements of world-building? We think about worlds and we think about them being everything, right? That could be paintings, that could be video games, that can be books, that can be immersive experiences, that can be novels. They can be music. World-building is a lot of stuff. Literally covers a lot of stuff. But there's actually some actual elements that go into it that transcend borders and actually are applied to a variety of different mediums. And so types of world. We have static worlds, which you could think of is paintings and illustrations. We could think of dynamic worlds, which are more video and animation. And in some ways you could say that audio is a dynamic world. Then we have interactive world. What's our books in games? And the difference between static, dynamic and interactive is sort of that spectrum of engagement, user engagement. So static, right? You can only look at the stuff. You can't really do much else going. It doesn't change. What happens in a painting, in an illustration stays the same. It does not change dynamic. When we think of as videos and animation, impossibly audio. And any particular time, the changing of the world is based on the time sequence. And so because video animation in audio, There's time associated with it. The dynamics is over time, the world changes. Whereas over time, static worlds don't change. Over time, diamond worlds change and often automatically. Once you hit play, that world is dynamic, it's moving, it's changing, it's evolving. And so then we have interactive worlds and interactive world's books, games. The world changes as you engage with it. And so if you hit Play, the world will probably not change until you have an action. With books. You have to turn the page. What games you have to move the characters. And so the difference between dynamic world in Interactive Worlds is what dynamic worlds you hit play and it evolves over time. Interactive worlds, you hit play and the world evolves as you explore it, as you engage with it. And so what elements are also involved in the world? We think of all the things that make up the worlds that we already engaged with. Whether its geographic location, whether it's a system for work or for school. We're engaging in these different worlds. Make up our identity. And so what we think of in a world or an environment, we have society, we have history, we have Settings and landmarks. We have social customs. We have languages. And then there's objects and items and tools. I live in America. In America has a rooted history that goes back hundreds of years. There's different landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and settings. There's social customs. I'm black and so I have black culture. We, most of us speak English as a language. I'm using my computer to record this in. I create using a whack them send taken a lot of various creative tools. And so my world is wrapped around me as a black creator in America. And so you can apply that to your world where those same things you can create and you can make a world that's believable, even if it's not referencing your life. You could create a character that references. And speaking of characters. Characters are foundational for the worlds that with ink. And we'll dive deeper into how to develop characters for your world. But characters, there's backstories for your characters, is races for your characters. There's motivations and convictions, and there's even appearance. And so developing characters in designing characters are two different things. But combining the two allows for you to create worlds that are believable because often we experience the world through the character. And so the characters ultimately embody the user's experience. And lastly, we have environment maps. And so in order for your characters to actually explore world, you actually need a world to explore. You need an environment, you need locations, you need geography. And so that's another element of building a world. It's having maps and environments. It's having geography, having climate, mountains, rivers, lakes, civilizations, cities, towns. I'm recording this importantly, Oregon and Portland is a little, it's a pretty decent sized town or city. You could say, there's buildings, they're skyscrapers is all that. And importantly is also civilization. There's this saying called key Portland word. It's a culture. It's a civilization that is really based off of being a port city that is finding its identity. There is Mount Hood, There's tons of rivers and lakes. And the climate in many ways is always raining. And so on the Pacific Northwest, Portland is a very unique place to be at. It's different than Seattle and it's different than other places on the West Coast. But Portland, in and of itself allows you to experience certain things that you can't experience in other places. And so combining all these things, right, the types of worlds, the customs, and the society, the characters, and the geography. It allows for you to build these unimaginable places that really resonate with people. 6. How are worlds built: So how our worlds built? That's really a big question of, you know, you see this world, How is actually built? And there are two ways to approach building a world. You can plan out everything before you begin, or you can just build as you go. Often, for me, at least, you'll be doing the combination above. You will have the opportunity to plan before just to organize your ideas. And then once you have something solid and cohesive, then you'll begin focusing on building the actual world. And so it's not a matter of how they are built. It's more how do you start building? Because right now, if you're able to tell a story and articulate yourself, you're building the world's that you're communicating. Your life is all about just building world to navigate it. And so being aware of that and knowing how to navigate that efficiently and effectively is really the name of the game. And that's really the purpose of this whole giving you the tools to build worlds that you can use to communicate your ideas. That's it. So to start, you probably want to find key references. Answer the questions of what are you building. And really create something cohesive, whether it's a theme or just an idea and grounded in reality. You want to build something that resonates with people. And the best way to do that is look up a whole bunch of stuff on Google, pinterest, instagram, online in general, and even books and other stuff. The whole thing is to pull from the world and incorporate into the world that you want to build. And then also really just define those key characteristics that you want to add to your world. For a lot of people, the start and the end are pretty, pretty concrete, right? You start at one place and then at the end of it, you finished to another place. But the only problem is that the process. The process can be a journey. If you go up, it can go down, they can go around, it can go back. The process will take you so many ways to get to that angle. And often we want to go to straight line, but it can't be a winding path. And so the whole purpose of this is to take this daunting journey, this daunting process of building a world and breaking it down into steps that you can follow. That allows for you to create stuff, iterate, create more, and improve on your skills. As you improve, you explore the creative process that allows for you to innovate and learn more about yourself and have others learn more about you. And so the process really is come up with an idea, find references to help develop that idea, sketch it out, tweak the idea, and then fine tune the idea. And so this is more big picture stuff. Again, in part 2, we're going to be learning how to apply these specific steps in fleshed-out worlds from start to finish. And so when you're building worlds, there's some great questions to ask and answer. First, why are you trying to create something? What is the point of it? Why is it important to you? And what will others like about it? And that's crucial because you want to know why you're doing this. Why people should care that you're doing it? And what are you trying to share with the world that will help people entertain people, educate people and empower people. You can create stuff and have only you create it, and have only you engage with it. And that's cool. But if you're taking this course, you're probably asking yourself, how can I create something that connects and builds community? How can I create something that generates attention and possibly opportunities for myself? How can I create something that allows for me to express my ideas that I have a difficulty articulating with words. How can I tell stories that are impactful? And so that all focuses around other people and engaging with other people in an immersive and memorable way. And so being able to address these questions in articulate them in a way that gets to the root answer. That allows for you to take something that you are passionate about and you're interested in and be able to create something tangible that people can engage with. This is the why. Why do you do this? What is your purpose? What do you hear missing? Then once you figured out that purpose and that mission, you could continue to make tons of worlds that build off of each other. 7. Tools to Build Worlds: So what are the tools that you need to build world? Their software, programming languages, there's processes. Now I'll give you a little bit of a glimpse of what my processes. And hopefully this process allows for you to make worlds just like me or even better. And so in terms of software, there's different forms of software that you can use to make your world. And there's a spectrum in this, right? Because you could use software for idea generation and organization, which for me I use Google and I use Pinterest and Instagram. And this software called art station and Deviant Art. Mainly these things are websites. Now you log onto them and you're able to utilize these to get ideas and organize your thoughts. Then there's writing, conscripting softwares. And those are the word process for this, for the most part. So a Microsoft Word, google Docs, paper, fade in, script writing software. Then there's sound tools. And those tools are available to help you capture sound in a way that feels natural, allows you to be creative and iterate on it. And so I use Adobe Audition CC. There's Audacity, there's Ableton, GarageBand, FL Studio. These types of software's allow for you to either focus on the pictures for idea generation and organization. The picture heavy stuff, the word heavy stuff with scripting and writing, and the sound heavy stuff with audition and in Audacity. So then there's 2D tools. And these allow you to create work in two-dimensions. So there's drawing software, which is Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint. There's a lot of them. There's a lot of paid ones and a lot of free ones. And again, I will have a list of the different softwares that you can use that are both free and both paid. And so I'm creating a list to give you resources to navigate these so that you can try them all. There's animation tools and video tools as well. And so 2D drawing is for illustration. Write something that's static. Animation and video tools are for moving, moving pictures. So two-dimensions that move, they're more dynamic. And so those are Adobe Animate, Premier Pro, iMovie After Effects Final Cut Pro. Think about this as the difference between static and dynamic. And so static, we'll be drawing tools in 2D, in animation and video tools are dynamic. And then there's 3D tools which allows you to create three-dimensional works of art. And so that includes Cinema 4D, maya, Blender, 3ds Max, marvelous designer, DAS studio, brush and icon. And what these allow you to do is essentially tell stories, animate, create stuff that's static, all that stuff but within three-dimensions. And so typically, these software's allow you to do static and dynamic thing. Opposed to the 2D tools that only allow you to do either static or dynamic. And lastly, we have our interactive tools, which are Unity, Unreal, scratch, Lens Studio, spark AIR. Those are often the game development tools. And because games are interactive, the engines that are used to build games allow you to create interactive works of art. They're not solely for gaming because you get still make animation. It gets still make pictures with these. But they're made specifically for gaming. Dot can be applied to other things. And so if you're looking to build a 3D world, real-time rendering, you probably want to use Unity and Unreal because they allow you to do those things pretty, pretty effectively. And if you want to do some stuff in AR VR, you can definitely use Unreal unity, spark AR when studio. They allow for you to take things from other tools, such as 2D and 3D tools like Cinema, 4D and Photoshop. And you can add those two interactive tools to have interactive and immersive worlds. And so programming languages, what are those? There's a variety of programming languages that you can learn. C plus, plus C sharp, Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, and many more. And what these allow you to do is make things through procedures. And so if you don't know how to draw, if you don't know how to create things from scratch, using your hands or using a variety of creative tools. You can actually use assets and code them to make these experiences and make these worlds. And so programming languages are algorithms. They are ways to make things based off of data and statistics. So if you know how to utilize data and statistics and you know how to capture things with numbers. You can utilize programming languages to approach building your world out an optimum once you have a base for building your worlds out, what programming languages that allows for you to create in a way that's very impactful. And so what is the point of all this? Notice how I'm just now mentioning the tools used to build worlds after introducing all of the other elements of worldbuilding. This is intentional. The whole point of learning, world-building and emerging technology technology in and of itself is to make stuff. Not learn how to use the software. You want to learn how to make things, create, generate. You don't want to learn how to use a tool for the sake of using the tool. We're teaching you how to use tools to bring your ideas to life. Not because we want you to master the tool. The reality is that you will never master a tool or a program. That's a pipe dream. It just won't happen. You want you don't have enough time because they're always adding more things to it. The constantly adding new features. And often those features are specific to a certain industry and you will just have no reason to use it. And so why waste time trying to master something that you will probably never use? It's not about how much stuff you know. It's about what you know and how you can utilize it. The BDI of focusing on different tools is that you are not tied to any particular one. And again, that can seem daunting, but ultimately you will realize that some software do things better than others. And there's going to be a lot of overlap in the softwares that you use where he could do it all in one software. But if you utilize multiple pieces of software, you can do things better in one software opposed to another. End. Eventually, you will use different softwares and tools to realize different ideas. And that's really just the process and procedures and the style that she started to develop with your work. Hello. 8. My World Building Workflow: And so for me, I'll sort of go through my workflow of how I tried to build worlds. I gave you a glimpse of it with what the other stuff, but this is sort of a way for me to like. This is how I use it. And so, you know, I always start by writing in generating ideas. And so I'll use, I'll use just paper or Microsoft Word or OneNote or Excel to do that, right? So I'll often just start with paper, just a sketch book. And I'll just map out these ideas on two different lists and files. Then I'll go into Microsoft Word from my sketchbook. And I'll just convert all the sketchbook ideas to text and just try to make sense of the ideas that I have edited a little bit. And then I'll sort of move that to OneNote, which is sort of the catch-all for all of my notes, for all the elements of the worlds that one. Then Microsoft world, like Microsoft Excel, I will try to map out plot points and now I'll think the storylines and stuff and spreadsheets and then fade in as the script writing software that I use for like character dialogue, plot points and character development and stuff like that. So for me, I'm, I use about five different things. I have five different steps for like generating ideas. And I sort of had that down to like something that feels comfortable for me. And I do this because I typically work as a one man, show in many ways. So when I write something on paper and then I try to convert it to Microsoft Word. And it allows for me to proofread it. It allows for me to look back at it with a different set of eyes. And so I'll sit there and I'll how something on paper then I'll sit there and type on it. And I'll be like her Miss does not make any sense. Let me rephrase this and it forces me to process the information in a different way because I don't have a team behind me. And so I, I tend to sort of treat these as different traps of a paper draft. Then I have a word draft, then I have a OneNote draft, and then i've I excel draft. And then I have a fade in draft. And so by the time I get to the fate and drop, I'm already on like Draft 4 or 5. And by that time, if you know about writing, the first draft might suck. But the fifth draft is always going to be better than the fourth draft because you're going through all that stuff. And so I have this, I have the draft process incorporated into my process and I use different tools to sort of force me to do that, forced me to do that. And so what it looks like essentially as going from Microsoft where it to fade in, you'll see that I have my God, my life, my Microsoft Word here. Then I have like my spreadsheet and then my OneNote when I have all my ideas sort of fleshed out in like a catch-all. And then it goes to the script right here. So from plot points, two diagrams told that to the actual script, which is the end result that like we saw in the script writing. Where I sort of gotten to that point. This is a process and it looks differently intentionally. And so then we have, you know, building references. And that's really the thing that I really enjoy where I sort of have ideas. I did a mind dump my brain dumped onto the, onto a page. I don't have any more words to get to it. Then it's like, okay, there's these images that I stumbled upon on Google or Pinterest or Instagram. And, and what I typically do is I say I'm a just make a mood board based up all this stuff because I don't want to draw it all. But I was inspired by things that I stumbled across on just navigating the day. And so what I'll do is I'll just see there copy and paste stuff from Google. Or I'll go to Pinterest and make little Pinterest boards or eye on Instagram all the time. And I follow a lot of great artists. And so I have little lists of different ideas and stuff that like they just the IG algorithm just gets to me. And so it's like something my favorite artists posted. It was like, I really like that. That's something that inspired me. I'm a put that in my little mood board. And so when you're doing it, it's like building references. It's like Google is great for finding references. Instagram is great for finding references from communities of creators. Pinterest is great for creating mood boards. And so as Google Docs and souls, this program called pure refs, which I just started to use. And, and from there, as you can see on the background, creating a mood board is just really putting ideas together with words and pictures that encapsulate the fill of your, you know, the world that you want to build. And so from there it's like my workflow then goes to just sketching. So I'll just have a sketchbook or something. And I just play around with the ideal and paper. And it can be as easy as just the sketchbook that I have. Or what you're gonna do is you just use like Photoshop or something. You don't need to have a graphics tablet. You don't need to know how to draw. You literally could just use stick figures or if you want to use to shapes in like Google Drawings, you could use that as well. And so after you, after you find these references, then you're just starting to pull from those references and have that be the reference points. And so for me, like the illustrator process is often fairly, fairly there's steps to the, to the process. And so I'll first start with just a loose sketch. And then that loose sketch will be a more fleshed out sketch, as you see here, just something very loose scribbles. Then you say, okay, let me add more detail. Then I'll add even more detail and ink it. And then I'll color it in. So it's like sketching, inking coloring. Sketching, inking coloring. That is, that is essentially what I do when I'm illustrating this. Illustrating the idea is that I have. And so depending on how detailed you want it to be, that's how that's how many drafts of something you need to do for that, right? Like, I'll do a lot of stuff in Photoshop in terms of like cover are in other illustrated work. And, but if I wanna do clean lines and I want to make stickers or do any sort of polished illustration, then I'll probably use Illustrator for that. Just because it just works a lot better with because it's a vector-based program. And so essentially like, you know, vectors, the difference between vectors and pixels when we're talking about creating something, is just that Baxter's have cleaner lines. As you can see, vectors aren't as blurry as pixels. And because it's not blurry than you could have a nice polished look to two things. But essentially like the workflow for me when I'm like building a comic or building goes telling a story visually, is that I'll have something in Photoshop. We'll do a sketch and then I'll, I'll continue to like add black to it or Inca. So I'll sketch and then I'll ink the sketch. If I want to have cleaner lines, I'll do Illustrator. But once I finished that, then I'll do some sort of combining program to add text and add all that other stuff. And I'll just put it out in Adobe reader or InDesign. And sometimes I'll use like Clip Studio Paint. But really it's all about what tools do I think will work best for me to create the worlds that I want to create. Clip Studio Paint works great for some things and it doesn't work great for other things. And so I feel comfortable just going from one program to the next because I care about just the world that I want to create. Not so much the tools that I want to use. And so obviously, you know, Photoshop and stuff for like inking him in, in coloring pages. And then I use InDesign to design the books and put that stuff out. And then when it comes to animation, I like to use a 2D animator like Adobe Animate. Adobe Animate is just great for 2D frame-by-frame animation. And that's what I just want to draw a lot of stuff and then watch it move at the end. Adobe Animate is where it goes. After effects is another one I use. I don't use it as much for 2D animation, but I'm trying to do any sort of special effects, a compositing, I could do that one. And then premiers where I sort of render out my videos and, and create PNG sequences for and, and stuff like that. And we'll sort of see examples of like my AR work where I am using Premier to create the crate, the experiences. And then I'll add those as PNG sequences to my AR stuff. And then workflow for building the world, right? The workflow is that for 3D stuff. I usually, I'll use Unity for like some animation and rendering and building out the 3D world. Then I may use the blender for like some 3D model manipulation and stuff. Cinema 4D for like some character rigging and animation. Zbrush for likes and 3D sculpting. I clone for like prototyping gods of animations and character creator 3, 4, like 3D character generation. And it's like I use these programs because each one of these programs allows me to do like specific things. Like I would never use character creator for animation. I'll just create the models and the characters and character creator. And I'll put that in to iCloud. For, for the animation part. I can do animation in immunity and blender, but I use Unity for like the AR stuff. And so I'll export the animation from icon into Unity. And if I need to modify something, I'll probably put it in Blender first before I put it to the entity. And then what ZBrush is just great for sculpting. And so if I just need to sculpt something real quick, I'll just add it, you know, I'll add UC brush for that. And so in a nutshell, tools are tools. You can literally build up a whole world with so many intricacies with Notepad and Microsoft Paint. But if you want to make things, if you want to just test your skills or just try to explore technology. You could do that with a lot of, like, there's so many things you could do. Create worlds in. It's all a matter of what you want to create. And once you figure out what you want to create, then you could explore how you want to create that. But if you don't know what you want to create, then it's really difficult to know how to create it. Or how to even start. 9. World Building Process Example: And so the world-building process. Do you have a solid idea of what you want to create? Then you can build world. And just literally simple steps that we're just going to cover in this first row with words. Does just words, it was easier to put down, then pictures in many ways. Then you have a roadmap of items that you want to include in your world. Then you board of references, your world. You sketch, design a sketch, an idea of the world. You get out in Unity or any sort of 3D modelling tool. And then you sort of populate it, you give it life. And, and then do you make it, you make it exist. You give it sound, you give animate. And Joe affects all of these different things, right? And so an example of sort of describing in a world, of describing a world perspective. As I sort of worked on this project. For me, I wanted to have a filling of solitude, but with the bear in the composition. So that was soiled the world that I just sort of thought about. You know, solitude with the teddy bear in the center. And I wanted to have a similar feeling of how a dog feels when an owner leaves for work or school. And, you know, the, the teddy bear is sitting slightly leaning on one side where my, my main character, Roscoe leftover. And he is waiting for us to come back. And can be during the day or during the evening, maybe some light coming in through the window. I was just sort of like kind of channeling like I'm channeling Toystory, Edo. I'm channeling something that sort of resonated with me and like what was sort of my twist on that. So it's not completely new idea. I'm sort of taking elements of what I was inspired by. And I'm just saying, this is what I want to create. This is a world where it's sort of somber and solid. Has solitude in it. It's quiet. It's sort of, you know, it has this particular feeling of belonging. And so that's just me sort of trying to capture the motion or the idea that I have. Obviously, it's just sort of like it as I look back at it just sort of feels like vomit. It's there but it's not like it's there. But it's not. And so I described it will work. I have words that are associated with these ideas. Now. It exists because you can see it now. It's not just in my head. And so then it's like I want a roadmap items for the world that I wanted. So I wanted to include a red racecar bed. I wanted to include down walls and stained floors. I wanted to include all candy wrappers, some like dirty clothes on the floor. Wanted to have shoes. I'm a big fan of the Jordan 13. Sounds like you need to have the Jordan 13s in there. If I don't have any English use Jordan 13s need to be in that room. Then obviously want to have like a teddy bear, but it has like a bunny suit on it. It's surrounded by Joel gets orange and yellow. Like I wanted those specific things in there. But then I also wanted to just how the environment. And so again, I didn't know what it was going to look like, but I had an idea. And so these are the things that I just wanted to include it. And so then I create a moodboard. And obviously I have my Jordan 13s. I got my teddy bear, I got my messy room. I've got my red rakes, racecar bed. Literally, it's the same stuff that I had in my roadmap. I look for references of those online and I just put those in like a Google doc and stuff. And then I decided to start sketching stuff out. So I'd sketched out the ends of the characters. The room. Stuff would matter. Look like I sketch it all. I sketched it all out. And then I decided to sort of time-lapse it and show the design process. Okay. Ok. Oops. Oh, well, okay, So so now that we had a sketch, right? And you start POP AND gate, I had like 3D models that I found or that I was able to create a 3D model of Nimbus, the teddy bear, of a 3D model of Rosco, my main character. Then I sort of kit bashed in populated or broom that I created. And it's all about being able to visualize what the sketch is right inside. We have a 2D render of it. What does it look like in 3D? Because obviously this is, this is, this is this is what we're doing. So well. Kenji, as for world-building guard their points where too much detail can act as a distraction to the story. Depending on the type of story. Like I revenge or to compare it to one of adventure exploration. So when you have a world fleshed out, it only adds to the relatability and, but believability of the story. If anything more fleshed out, the world's world is. The better you can utilize the world in your storytelling. And so if you don't know what, if you don't know what the street name across the street is? The new can't use that as a storytelling ice. Meanwhile, if you do know where all these things are, if you have names for them, if you can relate to them in a certain particular way, then you're able to utilize those in your story, in it, and how it enhances your story. And so in short, the more details you have, the more points of detail. Time allows. It tells the story the way you can tell, utilize the world in your story. And so once I, once I have sort of everything built, look right. I have the world built out. And now I can bring it to life. Actually tell a story in the world. Because I had the world out there. Now, this last week. I just want to go back to sleep. I just want to lay down. And so does this because the world was built right? There is, there is an environment, there was life to it. There is a context that was just an image. You're able to actually tell a story that people can resonate with. You know, what happens to your favorite teddy bear? When you leave and you go to school? Like what is, what is the chance that, that can be created with that? And how can you express certain ideas that, that you fill in these types of situations? You know, world-building is a, is a, is a means in which you can tell a story in. And you can branch off and say, Okay, what is the day-to-day life? Why is the character so tired? You know, I can relate to this character at the end of the day because after a long day, I just want to lay in bed and I don't want to do anything. You know. And so until it building was creates, allows for power, for storytelling. 10. Introduction to Kitbashing: What is KIT bashing? Kit basking is really just this whole concept of mixing and matching assets to populate your world. And so, you know, in light of Star Wars Day May 4th. And I guess revenge of the fifth. Kit bashing goes sort of coined by, by Star Wars where they actually didn't originally created all the models that were used. They actually just took models apart from other assets, apart from other models. And they put those together to make the Millennium Falcon and make all these different things that we sort of know and love, right? It's, it's, it's remixing things, repurposing things. That's what kit bashing is. And so the goal is to want to mix and match acids to create something new without having to do the labor of making every single detail. And I think for many world-building and in creating stories as a storyteller, that's what we do already, were inspired by something. And then we want to make something new from our inspirations. You know, in many ways, everything that we do as sort of kit bashed in a way. And so kit bashing, as I said, is where you take something from someplace else a make something different from it. And it's, it's very quick, it's very easy. And you can build things that are cool, right? You'll have, you'll have a set like this. And as you could kick back something that builds this, right? They don't look it, they don't look similar at all, at face value. But when you, when you really look at it, right, you have, you have this part right here, which ends up band the flower. You have this right here, which is that red part. You know, you have all these different parts of the UK recognize once you really dive deep and look into it. And so keep bashing fully utilizes elements from other things and allows you to create something that's unique and different. And it also allows you to save time and focus not on the details, but the idea is that you want to explore. And so if you are focusing on details, you're focusing on details like that lend to the experience. Not details of, oh, this needs to be this bird that's going this way, or this needs to be a hexagon versus a hepta gone. You don't have to worry about those details because the assets already made, it's a matter of how to utilize those assets to save time and still give your story justice. And so it allows you to avoid a lot of the technical aspects of creating things. And when you avoid the technical aspects of it, you save time and you have more bandwidth to focus on the creative side of things. And then, you know, you can spend more time on the emotional value and the themes of the world, and not drawing just rocks and mountains because at mess takes forever, right? If you have if you have to render things out, then you're you're you're making yourself incapable of doing the other stuff. And so how to use Git Bash? That's the question. How do you get bash? And it really the thing is, you know, you take something from one place and then you make something different from it, right? And you do that by taking the assets from other projects and you add them to your projects, add them to your folders, your asset folders, and then you just place them in the saints and then you just put them right next to the other stuff. They're, they're part of it now. And so and so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to show you a little demo. And so 1 second, let me let me find my difference. Yeah. Sorry guys. And so with it, you know, all of these things right here, this is all Kit bash. Yes, I had like the 3D models of the characters. But if you could tell the difference, there's a difference in quality and how this best this bus looks, and this car looks because they're from two different asset packs. The particle system that you see here is from a different asset pack. The buildings are from different asset packs. Even the ground is from different asset packs. Ivan had different asset packs for the animation, where I was stitching together different animated elements from different sequences. So as you can see here, this is some mainly warrior animation path that I was using the animation for, for, for these characters. And so it's like this isn't know, like mainly warrior seen. But it, it works because all you're doing is focusing on the world and, and what you want to create in the world. You don't have to worry about all the little details of, okay, I need to animate this character running in this particular way. I could just find the asset of an animation that had that in it. And so, so this is a, this is a scene that I have. And the way it works is if we're talking about Kit bashing right? The way it works is and let me try to find. There we go. So the way it works is I essentially add something to it. Say I want to I want to have a mountain in the background. I have, I have a whole bunch of asset packs that I sort of add it to my scene. And so if I say okay, I want to have a mountain in the background. I could type in mountain. And I'll have all these different Desert Mountain. I have some background. I got mountains with grass on top of it of a sky mountain box. Now some like generic mountains. I probably want to try this one right here. So all I have to do is I literally can just drag that in my scene like this and say, okay, I want to move it back, lower it a little bit. And then say I want to have it in the background though, right? You see it? I want to have in the background, I can make it larger by just scaling it up and scaling it out. And so now, if I want to add, I can duplicate it and say I want to have. A city, a landscape with, with mountains in it. And so I can just modify it a little bit, spread it out a little bit more, just giving it a little bit more variation. Maybe I want to try another, another mountain. I could add that to a two. And even if I want to rotate it to the side so that it sort of covers it a little bit more. And so now I have a cityscape that grab a block that is sort of has mountains in the background. So I wanted a helicopter and if I look up the helicopter, see if I have one boom. And so now I have a helicopter. Helicopter is shining a light. Or light. To shine the light. We want from people. People there. And say The story is that you're somebody running. Or maybe let's see, what kind of animals do we have access to? So say there's a brown bear in the center of the there's a brown bear on top of a on top of a broken down car. And a boy is watching the Brown Bear Reykjavik as the as the authorities are trying to apprehend the bear. Right? And so that's just a simple story that we sort of kit bashed in and put together real quick. There's a boy there. He's looking at the looking at the helicopter, shine a light on this bear, that's Karen up this purple car. And it's on a city block in front of some mountains. My answer, That's, that's the setting for an Oscar winner right there. And I'll say some, say so myself. This is a kit bashing right here where you just finding stuff and you're just adding that to your projects. And then being able to utilize that in a way that makes things easier to navigate. And so, you know, with it, it was like I just had to come up with the idea. Then I just found the asset that I need it and added it to it, right? And so if we're able to do that, then, you know, Gandhi is a great tool to use to do that with, to the point where you can literally tell the stories of your comics through this approach. You how some characters, you have, some animation, maybe you have some settings. And you can build out the settings in Unity. And then you can take pictures. I've had those be the backgrounds for your for your comic pages. And then you just sort of go from there. All right. And so with it, I mean, this is this is what we have. This is essentially the concept that we have that we're able to play around with. 11. Kitbashing Example 2: But I do have a living crime scene where I just put together a whole bunch of stuff for a living room. Just something very simple, right? This is when you're designing stuff like this. It's just meant to be a reference point for many things. And so it's like I have a little like half of a living room that I just sort of designed for for stuff. And I guess for this one, I could, I could actually show the process of building this world out for this one. So I guess this will be the, this will be the final, the final video I suppose I could show today every 400 years, a cosmic event of epic proportions. And what this, what I'm doing is I'm just using the 2D image is like a reference point for me to sort of build out that 3D render. Obviously with AR and find a way to like combine the two. But I started off with this guys just so I knew what the scene was. And then then I was able to actually build out the same pretty easily because I knew what I wanted to add to the same in terms of assets and kick bashing. And so that's the original acid pack that I, I started off with. And then I start stripping stuff away from it. And then I start adding stuff to it later on too. Really make it work for the scene, but I wanted to create. So I added that TV and that nightstand because it didn't have that originally. So then I start building out the the animation part. And this is where I just started doing additional kit bashing, where I'm adding picture frames. I'm adding a frame for exporting stuff out. Like all the other video assets that are supposed to be played on the screen that I'm adding my character models there. And then I'm starting to get bash lot of the animation. So I'll take an animation file if they can add that to my scene. And then I'll start playing around with it. And then from there, I sort of had this animated intro already. So I just added that to the beginning of it. And then all I did was recreate this in 3D. It actually fills like you're watching the show with the main character, the cosmic event. And so at this, it's really like the story is across the galaxy. The story is, the story of this is watching a story with the main character, like, what is it like to just hangout with the character of your story for a TV show. You just get to watch his favorite TV show with them. So you're watching him, watching his favorite thing. And so, and you're watching it too. You know that that's a, that's an idea that's, that's a world that's built using, using a lot of these assets and Kit bashing. And so with that, hopefully this gives you a lot of, gives you a lot of inspiration or a reference point to explore it. This is a lot of stuff that is just, you know, it's just currently being developed with technology. And there's tools that have been out there for years. But it's really all about that idea. And like everything else, punching out the idea, then you can do a lot of stuff with it. You know, it gives you clarity, it gives you direction. 12. Building a Style: So let's talk about building style. What does that mean, right? Like, how do you build a style? Really building a style is very influential in creating something that resonates with you. And it also allows you to stand out, right? When we're talking about building styles, we're talking about is a way to uniquely express the ideas that you want to see in the world. And so you can really do that by putting the pen to the paper, saying what you're capable of creating something and then putting it out and seeing how, not only how different it is from others, but also how unique yours. And so building the style is really all about exploring different styles of others, whether it be visually or it could be literally. An art styles are often defining characteristics of artists that we love and that we really look up to. And so as you explore this, right, you could create stuff, whether it be 2D or 3D. It be what text will be with images, even with sound. And even within those, you could explore different styles and combine the two or three or five to make something that's unique to you, but still pays homage to the ones that inspired you. And so building a style, right? Developing a style of building. It all comes naturally to us. We take the things that we love and we want to share it with the world, with our little twist on it. And so as you create stuff, you start to find that style naturally. And when you're creating, you will learn what you like to create and what you don't like to create. And I think that's part of finding your style is that some might think that it's a waste of time to create stuff into nutshell people or not even build on it. But if you work in the spin time on something and it doesn't P&L and you don't like it or you don't want to improve on it, then that means that's something you could check off the list that you don't want to explore anymore. And so therefore the opportunities for stylistic inspirations becomes narrower and algae become narrower. You start to develop a style that works for you. And so the world might be broad with opportunities. But as you create a new figure out what works for you, those broad opportunities allow you to become net laser focused on the things that you have expertise and that you have interested, and that you find valuable in your creative journey. And select pixel. It could be cartoon, it could be super deform, it can be realistic. It could be 3D. 2d. It could even be paper art. But your style will be a byproduct of what you create. And once you build on what you like and what you don't like. And so for building a style, right, it could be a multitude of things. The beauty of exploring your style is that you can incorporate a multitude of different styles into your creative process. To where your style could be a mix of 2D and 3D. Your style can be very impactful animation with very simple characters. Style could be hyper-realistic, but also super deformed. Your style could be a multitude of different things. Really speak to your interest in you as a person, as a creator. And so thinking that you could be artists without being a human is a pipe dream in many ways. Because the more you create and the more you connect with people, the better your art is. And the more impactful your impact will be with your worlds that you create. And so think about it, right? You could explore a lot of different things. You could explore things within 2D. Within 3D, you can explore things within VR, within AIR. You could explore things within a multitude of them. And each one of those can have their own style Rocket paint, something I could illustrate, something. I could build something that's 3D models. And each one of them can be reminiscent of the styles that I have for one or the other. But then ultimately they can be vastly different. And really the defining factors being a creator and me being able to create stuff that is consistent with my ideas and not necessarily the details of what I'm creating. An activity that you can use for building your style is build a style sheet of all your favorite styles that you love and want to be about. And collect them in a document to reference for the worlds that you want to create. It's like building a mood board, but what's styles? And not necessarily with specific details. Because we'll get to that later. Whether you're a good artist or a bad one, having a consistent style is valuable in setting your work apart from the rest of the world. Because if you have consistency in what you're creating, then that ultimately defined you in as you evolve with that consistency, you get better. You get more efficient. Much like us in our lives, right? We start off trying to navigate the world and figure out what we wanna do if it's in school, you try to figure out what your major is and choosing your classes. But at the end of it, when you get to become a senior, you have a mastery and you have a comfortability. You have a level of comfort that has come with you being consistent down that path. And if you want to change it, you can, you have the liberty to do that. But starting on that path and taking that step forward and then taking that next step and that next step towards your style will make your world more unique and even better. And so think about this as an extension of you. Just like we all look in sound different. So should the styles we have. And don't feel like you should be hindered or pigeonholed by those styles. If you want to change it, you want to switch it up. You want to explore their styles, you can. And hopefully you can come back to the other styles and incorporate those insights into it. And so styles, styles are great, styles are amazing. And I implore you to explore the styles that you have. 13. Building Characters: Okay, so let's talk about how to build characters because characters are very valuable in world-building. And so when we're talking about building characters, we're essentially saying that characters are foundational to building worlds because they often are the life of the world. In many ways we experience the world that we are building and where you're sort of interacting with were the characters. And so characters are very valuable. And that's why we need to give characters and development of characters a lot of attention. And it could be, it could be superficial. You could use it as a first-person experience where you're embodying things through the characters or you get used characters with a conduits for ideas. And so when we're talking about it, write the characters that we are building are the navigators of the world. And when we're talking about immersion, where essentially giving the users the people that are experiencing these stories, these games, these books, these novels were giving them the keys to our characters. And so as the character navigates the world were able to experience the world through the character. And so the intricacies of the character impacts the experience that everyone else has with the world in and of itself. And so when we're talking about building characters, we're talking about not only the design of the character, but the development of the character. As you see with my main character, Roscoe, journeys us through the island of Utopia and does a lot of stuff in the world of mind, web comic island fever. You see that a lot of the demographics for Roscoe are fleshed out and they don't have to be nitty gritty details. But the more you know about your character, pretty much, the more you know about your character. Just like, the more you know about your friends, the more you know about your family, the more you know about you, the better experience you have in the world and interacting with them. And so with Roscoe, he has a name. Obviously it's Rosco is age nine years old, is height, that's three-foot. 10, is white, 64 pounds, and he has his likes, his dislikes, his fears, his worldview, and his challenges. And so what this, I really narrowed it down to elements that make up a character. And being able to fill out those elements allows for you to have a memorable character. And so some of those things are just what the type of character is. A hero or the villain, or a sinister, or they honorific. What about their name? What about their age? What about their likes and dislikes? Do they have any skin colors? What colors do they have? Close? Do they where do they have any hobbies? Are there any fears? Do they have a history or origin? And ultimately do they have any goals and aspirations? When you're trying to tell stories, characters, having these things really drive the story because it allows for you to write. It allows for you to create what these characters in mind. And the way the characters navigate the world based on their demographics that impacts the user's experience of the world. And so if we experience the world and characters than having characters that people can embody is very, very crucial. And so inactivity that we could do is really come up with your own characters based on either you or your friends or your family. Give them a name and age, likes, dislikes, colors, close Hobbes, fears, history and origins, and goals and aspirations. It's as easy as just jotting down that information and building designs and building characteristics for your characters. 14. Add Dynamics and Immersion: Lastly, we could talk about adding dynamics to the world. And dynamics are really crucial because they make things more engaging. And so making it seem more dynamic can mean really a multitude of things though. Often these things are most valuable when we experience them because they bring the world to life even more. We have a greater connection to them. They impact how we navigate the world. Because as we navigate the world, the world changes. Being dynamic means that it's not static. It's not staying still over time. It's not staying still as we navigate it. When you take a step on the road, you may leave a footprint. And therefore that impacts the experience because it changes, it evolves with us. And ultimately our interactions become a part of the experience of navigating the world. And so those dialogue, that can mean animation, character movement, it could be sound. Dynamic is really just change over time throughout the experience. And it's up to you to really figure out what that can't be and what that is. And so in order to add dynamics and immersion to the world, we can plan things out. You can write a script. And then from there you figure out what you want to add and what you wanna do in the world. You can add a scene. You could add objects, you could add characters, you could add speech, you could add sound and git add action. There is that there's a flow to it where you're getting the opportunities for more engagement, but adding more dynamics to your world. And it could be as easy as just a quirky sound that happens when somebody falls. Or a jingle that plays on a TV, when there's a commercial that goes. Or one of the characters likes to dance and so they break out into some sick dance moves. It's really all about what you wanna do and how you want to add that to the world. And so when we're talking about adding dynamics to the world, we're really focusing on making the world more immersive. And immersion is the key to being more dynamic. Because immersive worlds are dynamic worlds. The worlds that are more engaging because they incorporate multiple senses. Sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. The more sense that you could involve into the world. The more dynamic you can make it in there for, the more immersive. And when it's immersive, it's more memorable. It sticks with us. It resonates with us. And so making the world more dynamic can be interchangeable with making the world more immersive and people love it. And so I'll thing to think about is think about what emerging would be for your world. And when you think about what immersion could be in would be, then figuring out what you can do to add that to the world to make it more dynamic. And so to make something more immersive is to make something more dynamic. And to do that, you add sound, you add images, add animation, you add user input. You add interactions. With the comic. You can add a page turn. To engage touch. For users. You could add thought-provoking imagery. To add site. Through AR, you could add sound and animation, to add motion, and to add music. You can even add userInput. Immersion is the white and make things dynamic. And thinking about it in plain get out and implementing those elements in and of themselves make your world more dynamic. 15. World Building Part 2 Introduction: And so now it's time to create our immersive world. And this means we're in part 2. So part 2 we'll be talking about exploration and creation. Now that we have our foundation and we have the basics of creating worlds, we know what world-building is, we know what the elements are, we know how to approach it. We know some steps. Now it's really time to dive deep into the steps so that we can create something that is really, really impactful. And so a recap from part 1, which is our foundations and basics, is that this course is again not teaching you how to use a particular program or tool. We will be using tools in this, but it's not focused on teaching you how to use the tools. It's teaching you how to make stuff. And world-building is making in creating. It's not using tools specifically. So you can build a world in one tool and you could port it over to another tool. And we'll do some exercises that allow you to do that. Knowing tools is really good because you can make worlds more efficient. But that's not what this is about. What this is about is world-building and the core element of it, which is storytelling. And so anyone can build a world. And those who build worlds are called Authors. And there are a variety of tools you can use to build worlds. I encourage you all to explore as many tools as possible. Because some tools work better than others. The beauty is being able to create something in one and then move it over to another to make it better and then moving over to another to make it even better. Ultimately, the goal of world-building is to create something that speaks to you personally, but also resonates with others. Because if you can connect with people across the board, across cultures, across anything else, then that means that you're able to build worlds that transcend the limitations that we have with communication. 16. What is World Building: What is worldbuilding? Will building is the process of constructing an imaginary world. And so we think about really ideas or an imagination. And, and we think about that in the context of what does it look like? What does it feel like? What is it? Well, what happens in it? How does it work? Is there, is it dark? Is it light? Their son or their stars? Are there. Man saw that that's all come from in our imagination. And we really see these worlds exist in books, games, movies, shows, comics really like any sort of entertainment. And so if you, if you see something, are you experiencing a story? If you're experiencing something that's entertaining, most likely it's because you're experiencing it in the world that was created to support it. And so in order for you to experience something, you have to have a world that it's grounded in. And that's what this is all about. Creating a world that allows you to, to tell stories and create experiences. And so what are the elements of, of worlds, right? In order for you to have a world, you need to have geography. You need to have environments. You need to have characters, you need to have culture. You need to have all the things that really make a world live, exist, interact with things. And really it like when we're talking about all these things, it's really about like why does all this stuff matters? And the reason it matters is because the goal of world-building histones really provide a context for the experiences that you're trying to create. And a context for, for you to share these things and communicate with people without having to explain it. If you build a world right, then you don't have to explain anything that happens in the world because it makes sense. And you know, that that can include videos, images, and interactive experiences. I think the beauty of world-building is that once you have the world built, you could do so much with it. The only problem is you got to do all the time. You have to spend all the time and effort to build the world's first. But once you do that, things are great. And so, you know, building worlds, right? Like that is such a, such a big sort of undertaking. In many ways. You gotta think about names and characters and streets and how lights work and all these different things, right? Fight. At the bare basics like building a world is, can be created using just a simple set of steps. And that's the stuff that, that's the whole purpose of this workshop is giving you the steps to create them, build these worlds in order for you to take on this project. Create this epic masterpiece that has all these intertwining parts. You could follow a formula and then you could build on that formula. And that often takes time, but, but as long as you follow the steps you'll get to that, you'll, you'll get to that point. And so really, it's all about describing your world with words. And then once you have the words, then you, you build out a mood board with it, with pictures. But you just find on the internet or maybe from friends and stuff, maybe from the world itself. Taking pictures of, you know, across the street. Then, then you sketch a design of the world. And that's really just putting it all together. Putting the i's together and visualizing it using your own creativity. And then you'll essentially block out the design for the world. And that's just converting the 2D design, the sketch into, into a world that has depth in it. And then after that, you populate the world with a whole bunch of different assets. And then you bring the world to life with sound and animation and visual effects. And that's pretty much it. You know, you could, you could expand on these steps and we'll look at examples of that. But it's really, that's really hit. 17. World Building Example: These are going to be examples that I'll just sort of show you for the next couple of slides are just like this is an example of like what it looks like, right? So describing both words. And this could be very subjective. This is me just talking about like what I want to do and what not what I want to see. And so for me, it was, I had a scene, had an idea of a world that I wanted to build. And it's based off of my comic and all that stuff. So for me, I wanted to have a filling of solitude with the teddy bear in the center of the composition. Similar filling to how a dog feels when it's only released for school or work. Teddy is sitting slightly leaning one side where Rosco, my main character left him. And he is waiting for his friend to come back. And this, this can be during the day or during the evening, but maybe how some natural light coming in from that window. And so that's sort of, uh, that's kind of an idea of like what I thought about when I wanted to have this world. Like that's sort of the idea that I have. We're not really talking about too many details of like how many walls there are. You know, what, how big the window is, what are all the details of the broom? It's really just like idea. What is in my imagination. How do I like? I just get it from my head to the words in It's that simple. And then from there I, I sort of have an idea of the things I want to have in the room. And so I just call it sort of like a messy room. And then I'll just have these items. So it's like a red card bed, worn down walls, what stains on the floor? Old candy wrappers, dirty clothes on the floor. Maybe some socks, underwear, shirt, pants, shorts, shoes on the floor. And I'm a real big fan of like jordan 13s and saw them just like anytime there's like shoes on the floor, instantly go to B Jordan 13. And then obviously like a teddy bear with, you know, with an orange and yellow bunny suit in the center, surrounded by junk, junk in the room. And so until that is sort of what I had, that was the items I wanted in it. And that is the filling in the idea from my mind. And then I created a mood board. In all this is just pictures on a page. Like I got all this stuff from the Internet. I didn't if I had some pictures of my room, whatever our probability used it, but I didn't. And honestly have Jordan 13s have like a picture of the bed, have a picture of the teddy bear, and just some examples of what a messy room looks like. And so from there, I I essentially created a sketch. And the sketch is just sort of an idea of what this room might look like. And you know, what I can't use for, for my room as a reference. And so until it could be as detailed or not as detailed as possible, I ended up doing multiple sketches for it. But it's really just about just like what is the room look like in like, how will people feel when it, you know, what, how does, how do the words translate to the visuals? And ultimately that people can experience something. I sort of did it another iteration on it, and it does render epic. And so you can check this one out. Hi. Hi. And so notice how with this, I started off with this blank slate. And after this blank slate, I started to build up all the details afterwards. And so that's pretty much how the design process works. Where you're sketching it, then you're designing it, and then at the end of it you have all these details, but it takes time to do that. And to offer you want to start off with something like this. You know, and this is what we call blocking. Where you're going to block out a room or you're going to block out all the different stuff and then you start to build on it later on. And so let me see if I can get the 22. So then I end up with I start to populate the world after I sketch it and block it. And this is what I built in unity. And essentially this is a 3D render of the actual gram that I have, right? So you have a whole bunch of different things. You know, you have the bed yeah. The light. We have a closet. There's a lot of stuff that you see here that is actually in my mood board. So if we go back to the moodboard, you see like the UC, the like shoes, the band. You see a lot of mess around on the ground. Even see a little basketball hoop. And all those details. I started to add all those details in it. And before you know it, you have around. And so then after you finish that, after you finished that, oops, let me after you finish that, you're actually able to create a inexperience. And so this is a, this is a demo of like the actual experience with the world created in it. So here we go. Good day. And so as you can see, that this is, this is sort of a byproduct of all the planning in all the things that you do with creating a world, right? Yeah, you create the world, you create the environment that has all these different features in it. And then once you put the characters in there, they can navigate the world and it all makes sense. We see this in games, we see this in movies, we see this in films. We'll see this in all of these things. But with immersive worlds and with technology, right? It goes beyond just movies and video games. You can literally create a world and then combine it with your art. And through AR VR, any of these things, you can make it more immersive. And we're, that's what this is all about, is teaching you how to make things more immersive to where you can create stuff like this. And you could, and you could explore these ideas with your creativity. 18. Immersive Worlds: Immersive worlds, building worlds that feel real and dynamic. Something that you can maybe touch, something that you can move around in, something that you get here, see you can interact with. And so immersive worlds, immersive worlds is really an illusory, an environment that allows you to surround people. And so when you're surrounded, you, it feels like you're inside a cell, you're inside the world, or you're a part of it. And this is really all about connecting and commanding the senses. And so whether it's virtual reality, mixed reality, gaming, it's all about engaging the senses, the five senses that we have, what the worlds that you're creating. And this makes things more enjoyable and it makes things more engaging. And instantly I think about Grand Theft Auto. Grand Theft Auto, you know, you have your main characters, but then you have the world which is a character in and of itself. And so many people will play Grand Theft Auto, not for the story, but for, for the opportunities to navigate the world and what you could do on that world. And so in order to understand like what immersive worlds are, you have to understand what immersion is. And I honestly think about, you know, plunging into something and having it surrounded. And so you're creating something that, that surrounds the audience or covers audience in the world. And for anyone that has ever gone swimming, specifically in the ocean. Because the ocean is sort of its own world in and of itself. Think about jumping into the ocean of being surrounded by water. And so if you think immersion, think being lucky, immersed in water, you look up, you look down, you look to the left, you look to the right. You breathe, you breathe water. That's the world that you're in. And so like anything that incorporates senses is surround you in a way to where you filled different inside of it than outside of it that's being immersed. And so how do you make a world wide nurses? Really, it's all about incorporating multiple sensors into the world. And so we instantly think about like, okay, a world that's contained within a book. You have, you have touch because you'd get touched the book. And then you have site because you get, you get, you get to see the words on the page. And then it's really up to your mind to imagine all the other stuff in the world. So you could say that a book world is less immersive. But if you're finding a way to incorporate sound into it, then you could add sound to the book, and that could be more immersive for your world. And still the same thing with video games, right? Like video games are immersive because you can touch the controller. You could see things you get here, things to make it more immersive. All you're doing is adding another sense to it. So maybe you could smell things too. And so you're making the world more immersive by adding multiple senses. And so the more senses you have in your world, the more immersive it is. On the flip side, the less sensors you have, the less immersive it is. And so, and so it's just sort of think about it that way. Think about it on a spectrum. Not like if it's immersive, but how he marks it. Okay, So the activity for this lesson is all about imagining what immersion is. And so you'll want to think about experiences that you would like to make that are immersive. And what is the experience you want to create? And so write down a sentence or two about the world you want to create. Bat are immersive. They incorporate the senses. 19. Describing Your World: What we're, what we're going to do is we're going to be focusing on how to describe our world. And so imagining the possibilities of our immersive worlds and really being able to articulate that. And so, and so how do you capture your imagination with works? Really, it's all about, you know, you have an idea for some epic experience. It has nature, mountain cities, people, animals, monsters, spaceships, go, anything, anything that you could think of. And it's really about like where do you start with that, right? And so, you know, off do you want to just start with pen and paper or a word processor or something. And so, you know, you want to write down what kind of world you want to create. And then, you know, have a, have a few sentences to go along, go along with it. And so really taking words and sentences can really make or break it. And just like the, the one that I created and I showed you, we're really just going to recreate that and start with that stuff. First of this, what do you like? Capture your imagination with words. And so why would you want to use words for building your world's first, right? You have all these visuals. Why would you want to use words lipid? And it's really to start off with because, you know, it's building worlds takes a lot of time, but writing down words doesn't. And so you don't have to. If we had unlimited amount of time, you could create anything can you wouldn't have to worry about time and you wouldn't have to worry about, you know, how long it would take and all that because time isn't a factor, but time is a factor. And so writing down ideas allows for you to explore these ideas, but without having to spend hours and days rendering visuals for it. And so the reason we're, words are great for building roads is because words take less time to write. And, and that's, that's really what it comes down to, is just more efficient. So in this lesson, the activity is all about describing your world with words. And so write down a few sentences about the world you want to create. Just with the description of it. And it could easily be a description of, I want to create a world with clouds and a building that has dancing people in the sky. Something simple or something complex. But just write down and describe your world. 20. Referencing Your World: Now that we are able to describe our world with words, now it's time to really find references. And so referencing your world is a really easy way to visualize it without having to do all the heavy lifting for creating the stuff. So typically the references are for you to really have examples, visual examples for the world you're trying to create. And so what? We're going to find references for your immersive world essentially. And so why do references matter? That's the big thing. Why don't we go through this whole thing of doing research and references. When we could just put the pen to the paper and just go from our mind to the page, right? Like some people might think that references are just a waste of time. And in many ways like you get argue, yeah, But like when you're working on a project, references can make or break your project. And so finding references is just another way to save time when you are trying to imagine something. But it also helps if you have a difficult time visualizing something. You can think about it and you get say it and you can write it down. But it's really difficult to actually visualize it in a way that you could put the pen to the paper and say This is exactly what I'm thinking about. It's actually just really, it could just be difficult sometimes. And so sometimes you just can't imagine just details. And so looking at the world and looking at references, it will inspire you to think about details in it in a different way. And so you might have a big picture of something, but the details really are what make or break and experience. And you just often just don't know where to go with the details sometimes. And so that's why you would look at other people's work or references. And so references because of that, will help you create believable worlds. It'll help you create things that make sense to other people. And so they can also just help you develop characteristics and details that like you could just include into your world that you didn't even think about. And so say you're thinking about making a dinosaur or having a dinosaur world. And you want to have a T-Rex. And so you have a T-Rex, it has a big head mouse, all those different things. You probably didn't know that it had three toes. And so you single reference, you're like, oh, a T-Rex has three nodes. So then you add that extra detail to your T-Rex. And then in the world where the T-Rex is, maybe there's planes and maybe there's these huge trees. Knowing the details of the trees makes it more believable that like this T-Rex existed in that world because of the surroundings, right? If there's a T-Rex and it's not, and it's not a Jurassic Park world than then they're probably not going to be any buildings. And if there are people that they're sort of Neanderthals. So like having references for what those look like and how those things interact with the world. Or are crucial as well. To wear it, you don't want to have a person the same size as a T-Rex. And you don't want to have a T rex that, you know, and it looks not like a T-Rex. I mean, that's pretty much how it works. So how do you find references? That that's really the thing, right? Like, how do you find references? The first thing you can do, go to Google. You could go to Pinterest, eat, go to Instagram, you can go to Facebook, Twitter. There's a place called art station, and then there's another place called Deviant Art. And so so you could, and then like when you're creating a mood board and stuff, you could actually create a yeah, So payload as like kinda world be simple and realistic or should it be more creative? It could be anything that you want. It's like you can literally just have a world made of gum drops or a world that's just made of clouds. It's, it's really all about what you want once you want to create, to get really have a world based off of your house, or the school that you go into, or the world that you live in right now. And so say you just recreate it Portland. You could do that. And you know, just the very nature of you creating it makes it created. It can be more creative or less creative. I would say that the very nature of you making it or recreating it makes a creative. And so it doesn't have to. I would say creativity is like creativity is based on what you are able to produce. Not necessarily what's you're able to come up with a ratio. And so hopefully, hopefully that explains it. But when you're creating a mood board, all you have to do is do a Google Doc, essentially. In this lesson, it's all about creating moodboards now, until make a mood board describing your world you want to make to create with references. And so describing with pictures is really the basis of this. And so use your descriptions that you wrote with and look up pictures and put a whole bunch of pictures into a document. 21. Reference Example: Start with a new, start with a new document, as you can see here. So just make a new document. We're going to title it. I'll title it, Steven. And you can tie to your moodboard anything that you want. And then what we'll do is, I will create a heart. I'll go to a kid, go to a place called art station. And this is great for looking at images of worlds and stuff that people built. So there's a lot of great world builders out there, artists, people that make great stuff. And I'll just type in, I just type in clouds. And notice how we have a world with clouds in it. And so I could just right-click and copy image and then go to my mood board, right-click and paste that image just like that. Yet. So we make her own. What we'll do is we'll make our own Google Doc. And then after you make the Google Doc, you name it, put your name, and then you put mood board. And then you go to Google, you go to art station, right? So we can go to Google. And we could say, I'll type in about world, cloud world. And that Cloud world right there, that looks cool. I'll say Copy Image. Go to my mood board and right-click and paste that image just like that. Okay. Morning. Hi. Hi. 22. Planning Your World: Now we'll, we'll talk about planning. So we'll be talking about planning your world. And all that is, is really creating a roadmap for building your immersive world. We have an idea of, you know, what we want in it and our references and what we're trying to create. Now it's now it's time to add the details of like with our, with our world. What do we want to add to the world? What should it contain? What are the details that we want to incorporate into the world? And so really this is like it's all about planning and making a plan for it. And so the reason planning is important is because it's essential for us, like for guiding us through the creative process of world-building. If we don't have a plan, then we're just sort of wandering aimlessly. And we don't wanna do that. And so in order to do that, we just put the pen to the paper like we did with everything else. And we just create a list of things that we want to have in it. And so if we don't have it on the list and we probably won't put it into our world. That's pretty much that simple. And so in order to achieve that you want to create, if you want to just sort of capture, you're imagining the, all the stuff in your imagination into like a list. And the process of building worlds can take days or it can take years. But having that list really narrows the focus so that you can flesh out and accomplish all the things you want in building your world. And so, how do you do that? How do you plan it? How do you, how do you sort of put the pen to the paper? Really? It's all about making a road-map. And so there's roadmap is just a strategy for adding goals, adding your desires to your world, worldbuilding project. And it can literally be as simple as just a bullet point list for all the different features you want to include in your world. Just a bullet point list. That's all you need to do, right? And so this could be as simple as just a Google Doc or a spreadsheet that allows you to write and list down and then check stuff off as you complete it in your world-building process. In this lesson, we're going to be roadmapping our details. And so what the spreadsheet or a document, go ahead and make a roadmap of details and features you want to include in your world. For mine, I had a something with clouds will add clouds and buildings, and mountains in grass and people in the sky. You could add all of that. So just try to narrow down all the details that you think you want to add to your world. Doesn't have to be final, but just sort of giving you a good starting point. 23. Roadmap Example: We're going to do is we're going to go through and make a new document. So go to File New. We'll make a new document. And this one will be Stevens. And then from there, we'll have to set up a bullet point list. And we'll say, you know, my world has Cloud, so make sure that cloud, et cetera. And we'll say, okay, in my world, I want to have, I have clouds. I want to have some mountains. Maybe. Maybe, maybe floating now with trees. Maybe I want to have buildings. Are buildings with tall buildings. Maybe I want to have a field of grass. Maybe I want to have huge rocks. So go through and look at your mood board, look at all the things that you want to create with it. And look at all the ideas that you want to incorporate into your world. And then start making a road-map for your, for your world, but of details that you want to include in it. And use your, use your mood board to help drive your, drive the ideas that you have. So if you see something in your mood board that you want to incorporate into your world, just go through and write it down. And then there's some ideas that you want to incorporate that are in your moodboard. Go ahead and just write those down too. And, and really create that book, that, that checklist that you can bet, you can create an add stuff to it. And that's really all. It's an odd, it's just making that checklist of details that you won't add to your world. In the next class. For calling. Hi. Okay. 24. Designing Your World: And so the design process is really, it's really all about taking the world that we have are the, the ideas from our roadmap in our mood board and really starting to visualize it now. And so we're not really talking about composition, we're just really talking about the things that, the way it's going to look, how's our world going to look, right? And so what? It's really all about designing. And so designing gives a planning process. And it's a, it's a step above. Just the, it's a step above putting the words to, you know, playing the, the words to our world. It's about visualizing the world now. And so you wanna do when you're designing something here, you're really thinking about a plan to construct a objects and synchronous systems. And so what this is like, the result of your design is usually called a prototype. And a prototype is just sort of an outline or a draft, a rough draft for the visual. And so software roadmap is just do telling the world the words of our world, the design details that images of the visuals of our world. And so the reason we want to do designs is because we do, when we design things, want to try to create them in a way that has details that are fleshed out. And so we're essentially making that plan and then we're seeing how that plan interacts, all the details, interact with each other. And sometimes you, you know, like words can only go so far, right. And so with my with my roadmap, what I did is I said, yeah, let me see if I can find my roadmap excellent. With my roadmap. I said there's clouds, cityscapes with loud cars. There's a dancing team floating in the air. There's birds flying around. There's tall buildings, floating mountains with trees. Like those are all details but like how, like how do all those interact with each other? And that's what the design processes, right? So we have these ideas. Until now. It's like how do, how do we connect them so that it makes for a believable world. And, and so like when we had that list, what does it look for that list to actually exist? And so with that, what we're doing is we're talking about designing things and having these designs that can be detailed or basic. You know, we could have as much detail or it can be simple or complex, simple. It's, it's really all about what you want, but it's really about exploring the ideas for what they are. And so most people will never see the designs. That's the, that's the interesting thing about it. Most people would never see that designs. But you can create a design so that, so that you can remember the details and how they interact with each other and the world that you want to build. And so this is really as a, to help the design process guide you to the finished goal. You have this idea that's in your head. You, you design it in a way to where you just follow the design and they are able to create that for others to engage with it. And so if you're, if you're working with somebody, having good design allows you to give them to design and communicate that idea that you have without actually having to say or explain anything. And so simply, like what you're doing is you're like you're, you're, you're creating something. And you are communicating it through art and through creativity. And the creativity speaks for itself through the, through the visuals. The activity for this lesson is all about designing your world. And so you want to sketch a design of your world that you want to create based off of your roadmap and your moodboard. And you can use paper, you could use a computer, use Google Drive, Google Drawings, Photoshop, anything and everything. It's all about just getting that idea and making good original concept of sketch. 25. Design Example: What I'll do is we'll go to drawing here. So we'll go to New and then drawing. And then in our new drawing, what we're able to do is we're able to have this canvas here. I want, this canvas allows us to do is we could have different shapes. So say I want a, I want to have some clouds. So instead of just like having blue, I can actually have clouds. So say I want to have clouds here. And so I'll have my clouds. Then. Say I want to have people dancing on the clouds. So I can't use Smiley faces for that. And we'll say that there's two clouds. And those clouds are Smiley faces, have Smiley faces on. And this is supposed to be an epic dance battle. And if I look back at my roadmap, my roadmap here. So I have clouds of cityscapes with loud cars. I'll say, you know, the cityscapes will be represented by rectangles. And so we know that the city is on the seniors on the ground. So we'll have different size rectangles for the different buildings in the city like that. And then we have, who have some birds. So I can't use actually, I'll probably want to sun too. So I'll probably want some sort of sun. Then I'll probably want some birds. And the birds can be represented by these interesting little things here. And I can change the color of it. Make them black. And just have a whole bunch of different, whole bunch of different birds floating around. And then will say that I have a grassy field around the, around the city. So what the grass he filled, I think I can use this is sort of the grassy field. Let's make it green. Dan, there's huge rocks and mountains with birds in the middle of the grassy field. Then I can have had this represented by rectangles, triangles. And so I'll say that there's a triangle in the middle of our grassy to have another one like that. Just because it was good to have different versions of R over mountains. Until now, we have a sort of a design. Taking the words that you have, taken the ideas that you have here, and start visualizing that with the design. I have my clouds of my people. I have my, my birds. I have my sign. I even had the mountains and the middle of the mountains and big rocks. I have my grass, my city. There are facing off. So it's a dance battle. You know, there's, there's a lot of stuff that we could do. 26. What is Unity Introduction: So, yeah, so we will go ahead and get started with introducing entity. And so using the Unity game engine is really good for building worlds. And in many ways you can build these worlds in Unity and you can use them in your games. You get used them in your films and your animations. You can even take pictures of them and have that for like 2D and 3D art. And so it's a very versatile. And so, so what is unity? Some of you may be familiar with it because of, you know, certain games are made in the unity is a cross-platform game engine that gives you the ability to create games and experiences in 2D and 3D. And so two-dimensions is just sort of XY plane, just like illustrations. And then in three-dimensions is 3D models and space and depth. And it also allows you to import assets and create in a way that you create another software. So like Adobe software blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, 3ds Max. And then you can build assets within the editor as well. And then you could actually use code like a programming language called C sharp, some JavaScript to, to create these experiences. And so it's sort of a program that allows you to incorporate a lot of different things into it. And those things make it, make it easy for you to navigate the world. And so unity can be used for a variety of different things. And those things include using 2D games, creating 3D games, virtual reality, augmented reality, simulations, and animation. It can also be used for animating objects and characters, and then also designing rooms and environments. And so if you want to do a cityscape, you could do that in Unity. If you want to make mountains and trees with water and flowers, you could do that in Unity. If you wanted to make a ball rolling down and rolling down a hill and, and, and blowing up into 20 million pieces. You could do that in the entity. And it could also be used for filming, shows, an animation, and doing photography. And so if you want to build a cityscape and then take a picture of it, you could do that and unity. And there's a lot of stuff you could do with it. And it's really all a matter of like what you want to create, how you want to showcase your world that you built. And so when it comes to like downloading unity and all that, you just gotta unity.com and you can download it. But all of you have the Unity Hub already installed. So we don't have to bother ourselves with this, but it's just, it's always good to get a little familiar with the idea of, you know, how do you get unity and stuff, right? So one of the things, as we're sort of working with our reference computers. And if for whatever reason you don't have a reference computer where you don't have, you don't have your computer available. The thing about unity is it only works on a Mac or PC, and so it does not work for Chromebooks. And so that's just one thing to keep in mind. And so setting up community, obviously like this is just to sort of download it. We already have a Unity Hub, download it. But what we'll do is we'll actually go to the Unity Hub. And that's where all of our stuff is. 40 ended. And so I tend to have like my Unity Hub right here at the bottom of my screen from my taskbar. But what you could do is you could have Unity Hub of efforts for the Unity Hub by pressing the Windows key and then typing again. And you'll see how it says Unity Hub right here as an app. So it, you'll see that there's a projects, there's a learn, there's a community, and there's an installs tab, right? And then up here you should see add an ID. And so the way this works is that Unity Hub is the hub for everything. I wonder if I have a slide for it. Yeah. Yeah. So essentially with the Unity Hub or Projects tab is where we sort of add new projects and create new projects. And if we want to select all projects, would you do that as well? So as you can see, I've got tons of projects that I worked on it unity. And so this is where you go to like open, open up projects. The ADA Learn tab is where you're able to learn more about humanity. So if you want to make games, if you want to play games, you wanna do all these different tests, projects. You could do that. And then there's tutorials that teach you a lot of different things that you could do. So if you want to learn how to make face filters, you could do that any entity. If you want to learn how to do visual effects, like do explosions and stop, you could do that in Unity as well. They teach you all that stuff and it's overfitting. Want to learn how to do programming. You can do that as well. The community tab is where it allows you to do like forums and blogs. And so any, if you have any questions or anything that you're stuck on, you could always look on the forums and blogs to get some information from the community of users. And Unity has millions of using. So it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a good resources tab. And then installs is where all the installs are. Four here, humanity, free entity hub. And so the way it works, right? Is that the way Unity works. And I will actually turn it all. The way Unity works, is that typically what software, we will open up the software and then we'll start a project, or will open up another project. And then we will, we will start working on the project. But that's not how gravity works. So we have the Unity Hub and then we have the Unity Editor. And so typically we will open up the Unity editor to create a project and work on it. And unity, you want to open up the Unity Hub. You download a version of the editor, and then you go back to the Unity Hub and you start a project using a version of edited. And so it's, it's sort of a, it's not as intuitive as, as other programs are. But like once you, once you sort of get used to the workflow, It's really easy to like pickup line. And so essentially you, the reason this is, the reason this is like this is because with Unity and they're constantly making different versions of the entity. And you can see that with the different installs that I have. And so that the versions of Unity are independent of the actual files and the projects in needed. And the nth, the Unity Hub combines the two or connects the two together. And so you have your projects, you have unity versions, and then you essentially interact with the projects through the Unity Hub. And so the way it'll work is that you install a Unity version in your installs. Then you go to your projects and you create a project. And then you can choose which Unity version you want to open up the project in. And then you start the project until it's pretty much like that. And so, and so when we're installing your editor, which we'll go through and do. It's really all about choosing the latest version of it. So what we're all gonna do is we're going to go to the installs tab. And then you will most likely not have any as many versions that I have. And I probably should get rid of half of them now at this point. But, but what we'll do is we'll actually go and start installing a Unity version. And so in order to do that, we'll click the Add tab here. And this Add tab allows us to create, installed the download and install Unity version. And this is very similar to what people, what we all saw at the beginning when we open up the Unity Hub, it was trying to get us to install something. But here we'll just actually go through and install it. And so what we'll do is we'll click Add and then notice how it says recommended versions, official releases, and then press releases. So the recommended release is the one that we often want to start with. It's the latest version. It's the one with all the best support is sort of the most up-to-date one. Official releases can be either future builds that they have out or they have previous builds that are pretty stable. And the reason you would use one version or over and others, just because some work better for like 2D games, 3D games, AR VR. But if you're just trying to get something out of the box and for world-building, you just want to have the latest recommend it release 2021. If it doesn't have an LTS long-term support, 21 is a little bug here, but it, but it allows for you to do some new features. We won't be using any of that stuff. It's we'll just be using Unity for the basic features. But if you wanted to explore, there's a lot of stuff you get explore. You'll see press releases. Don't do PR releases. Pr releases is like, you know, if you want to get if you want to play with features that are coming out in the next two years, you can try that out. But you probably don't want to work on any projects with a pre-release because it's just, there's too many bugs. And so typically you should have, everyone should see the recommended release of 2020, 0.3.5. And that's the one that we will all select for this. And so if you see that, Sure. Go ahead and select it. If you don't see it, let me know. And then after that we will click Next. Then the next thing that we're going to have is adding our modules to our Unity version. And so we want to have her Developer Tools select it because this is how this is sort of the back-end coding stuff. So if you're ever interested in coding, you can do that. Or you'll have like Android build support and iOS build support will definitely install those as well. Because that's for us to do like stuff on our mobile devices. And then we'll have and that's pretty much it. That's pretty much all we need. If you want to have it in a different language, you could. If you want some extra documentation, you could. But for the most part, while Android Build Support will have iOS build support. And then you wanna make sure that the Android SDK, SDK tools and OpenJDK are open as well. And this is all stuff that like allows for the platforms to work correctly. You often won't be actually interacting with the, with these two things. And so and so for me, I'm going to de-select because I'm using a different developer tools. I don't want that to mess it up, but we'll have we'll click Next from there. We unselect that one too or no. No. So make sure that you all selected because because I use a different developer tool, but I don't think you all have other developer tools installed on it. So you want to make sure that you have it all selected. I won't because it'll mess up my whole setup, but, but you should all have it selected. And so then Android SDK and NDK. You want to make sure to agree with that. And then you just click Yes for that and it'll start installing. So then you'll have a, you'll have this install working right there. And so as you, as you have this working for, as you have it installed and let me know If no one has no one sees this installing for them. Do we all see it installing or downloading? Yep. Cool, cool, cool. And depending on how big your, how fast your Internet connection is, that will determine. But this half the battle was done here, right? Just getting to this point. So yeah, it should be downloading and then it'll start installing. 27. Create A Unity Project: And so what we'll do next is we'll go to projects. And this is where we create our free will. This is where we're going to create our first project. And so with our first project, what we're gonna do is we're clicked either new or the drop-down menu. The difference between nu is that when I click New, it automatically creates a new project. But notice how it says 2020, 0.3.4. So nu is really for your default. It uses your default Unity project or editor version. So with the press the down arrow, you should be able to click 2020 0.3.5 or select whatever gati version you'll have. At this point, you'll probably only have one, but you'll select it. And then we'll have these different templates that are available. And what these different templates are. We out for 2D games, for 3D games, for HDR, RP, which is like high-definition. So for like very super realistic type of games and movies and videos. And then we'll have universal render pipeline, which is sort of, you could do some cool stuff with it, but, but it's a little more processor heavy. We have these micro gains, which are sort of ways to get started with building, with building games and worlds. If you want to play with Legos, there's a Lego Micro again. If you want to do some like mobile and AR stuff, you could do that as well. But right now, we're just going to focus on that 3D to 3D template. That's the, that's the best one to start off with hands down. And so we'll have that done. What I do is I have, I have a folder with all my Unity projects. And so you could create a folder for all your Unity projects and you get place that there. And all this does is it allows for you to find your projects very easily. And so you kid. So for me, I had them my, my computer. I have a folder called Unity. And then I created a folder on my computer for gained IT projects. And, and then I just sort of select that folder. Folder is called the entity. And then what I'll do is I will name my project. And so we will call this world building or world-building. And your score. And the score project. And, and the reason I don't have, but when I'm naming my projects, why I tend to do is I either if there's spaces, so say if I have a space here, space here, and the space here. So worldbuilding to project. If I've spaces, sometimes Unity just acts funny. And it doesn't, it doesn't work the way it should when you try to export stuff out or you try to save things. And so I try not to have spaces in my project names. And so instead of having spaces in my project names, I'll either change the first letter of every, of every word to a capital letter so that it's easy to decipher. Or I'll have a, have a dash or less space would be. Or I'll have an underscore where the space will be like that, so that, so that the computer recognizes it as just one word and Salva. And so instead of having spaces, you get, you could do a variety of different things, dashes, underscores, or keep them all together. But but I'll do that just to be safe because I'm sometimes naming things, messes things up. So after I do that, I'll click Create. And once I click Create, then it'll open up. Pretty much have this window right here where it began to be starting. So everyone go ahead and create your first project in the entity. And M will just wait for it to load. And once it's done, then we'll will start to play around what they didn't navigate. Our community, our first Unity template. Not actually go back to here. So there we go. 28. Unity Interface Navigation: So we have our, our, our main scene view, which is sort of our, our, our sandbox or a viewport. And this is how we sort of create and build our world. This is where we'll build our world in. Then we have our game view on this game view as we're where we have a camera. So this is what the viewer will see. So anyone that views our world will see it like this. We asked creators were able to see it like this and we're able to navigate it. And then we can control how, how the users see it. And so this game view can change depending on like where we place our camera and stuff. The inspectors where we have all our settings for our different objects. And the Projects tab right here is how we make all the different assets that we have. So any files, any music, any 3D models, that's where it will be in our project section. And then our hierarchy, where we have all of our objects in our scene. And so the way Unity works is we have, it's called Scenes. And each scene you're able to put together a world. And you could add scenes to other scenes and he could create new scenes and delete them. But the scenes or how we sort of build our worlds in. So think about the scene to sort of be Sandbox. And then, and then the assets are the sand. And until you add you add the assets to our scene and then you put them together to make the world. And so with it, we'll, we'll go over some like simple navigation. Because the simple navigation is how we sort of utilize, utilize the the, the viewport and utilize unity to its full capabilities. So what we'll see here is we have our hierarchy and the top left. And in the top left we have what is called a sample scene. And this is R, this is the same that we have open. And then we have these two things. And these two things with this icon, this square icon, or cube icon, is called a GameObject. And so all these things are called game objects within our scene. And so when I click on a game object, then you'll notice in the inspector, this has all the settings for our game object. And so at the bare basics, all game objects are the same. But when you, but when you add different components here. So as you see here at the bottom, you can add a component. When you add different components, it changes the way the game objects work. And so if you see we have our main camera. And so our game object with our main camera is going to be the game Jeff object called main camera will have a camera component. And that camera component, if I, if I move this to the side at the camera component, allows us to change how the change how the how the viewport works. And so what I could do is if I wanted to add a new add a new camera, I could do that by creating, go into the top-left, the drop-down menu. And this is how we can add different objects to it until I click camera. And now I have two cameras. And you can see how there's a, there's a camera object here and a camera object there. And if we look at both of them, they have the same components in it because they're both cameras. And so I'll go ahead and delete that new camera that we created. And then we'll see that we have a directional light here. And this directional light is pretty much our sun. And the way the sun works is if I wanted to change the way the sun works, notice how when I'm changing it or rotate it, the sky changes. And so I can make it dark. I can make it light. I can make it dusk. I can make it Don. I could do all that because I'm controlling the sun. And so if anything, you can make a world where, you know, the day is, the day only last five minutes. And so you could have it to where this thing rotates full 360 every five minutes. And you can play around with that and it's pretty fun. So when we're navigating it, you'll notice that the top there is the hand tool, the move tool, the rotate tool, the scale tool, and the rec tool. So the the hand tool allows you to pan the, the viewport around. So it doesn't actually do anything with the game view, but it allows you to pan the view port around. So if you wanted to move it up and down to see different details, you could do that. You'll notice how there's this little YZ and this little square thing here. So if you click this, this allows you to change your different viewport settings or v point views I made. And so. Somewhere else? I'm not able to select it. Yes. So so you want to be able to do you won't be able to select it with the hand tool. But if you move to a different tool, you'll be able to select it. And notice how with the click of a button, you're able to change the view of your view of your viewport. And so if you wanted to go look above all the whole scene, you can just click the the why. If you want to look forward, you get clicked the z and then the x, like that. And that makes it really easy. And you'll notice how it says to the right, back, left. And that's and that helps you navigate this pretty easily. And so with, with any of the ones selected, you could click Alt and you can actually rotate around. So if you hold Alt and you click and drag, you can rotate around the scene pretty easily. And so we have the pan tool, which allows you to drag up and down. If you hold Alt, you can rotate around and that's how you navigate the viewport. You can actually right-click to zoom in and zoom out. But these are pretty much the only things you really need to worry about with navigating the viewport. And so the next stuff is really all about. So the move tool to rotate tool and the scale tool, those are really all about navigating the game objects. And so notice how we have two GameObjects here, right? Yeah, the main camera, when you have the directional light, I can select the main camera by just selecting it. And that allows us to, that allows you to modify it. Or you get selected on the hierarchy. And that allows you to modify it as well. And so what you can do is you can go through and once you select it, you can move it forward. You can move it back. You can move it up, down, and you can move it in. Just like that. And by doing that, you're able to navigate this and navigate essentially oriented and put things in perspective. And so say you want to have more than just a, say you want to have more than just your main camera and your directional light, you actually want to add stuff to it. You can do that by going to the drop-down menu and having going into 3D objects. And we have a queue, we have a sphere, we have capsules, we have cylinders. So say we want to cube in there, right? You can have a cube. And what the move tool, you can move it up and down, left and right, forward and back, just like that. And notice how when I move it back, it gets smaller in our game view. And that's because the gave you is based on the camera. So if I move the camera closer, then the game view has a shows it closer. If I move it back, where I move it any which way, then moving the camera changes the perspective of the game object. And so the Move Tool works with the, with the game object, our cubed, and so does the rotate tool. You can rotate it using the different axes to modify it. And you can even scale it. You can make it bigger and you can make it smaller. And so the move tool, Rotate tool and the scale tool modify the game objects. The hand tool modifies the viewport. And so that's the difference. And so notice how, when I move, notice in this area right here, we have the cube selected and then we have transform. We have Mesh Renderer, we have box collider, we have all these components. Don't really have to worry about these components here right now. It's really all about the transform. And so what the transform, what we can do is notice how if I move this around, the position changes. And so the position is the position is the coordinates for modifying the Move tool. And so the move tool changes the position. And so just like that, the rotation is controlled by the rotation tool. And so if you change the rotation, you change the rotation on the gameObject with this section. So you can drag and drop. Or you could drag the drag it around to change it. Or you could use the Rotate tool. And the same thing with the scale. You could change the scale. You can make it longer. We can make it shorter. You can make it wider. You can make it skinnier. You could do all that, and you can modify it. What? These drugs as well. And so that's pretty much how you navigate unity. And that's how you can create cool things with it. Just by modifying all the stuff that you have, all the different tools that you have. 29. Blocking Out Your World: Blocking or InDesign blocking, your design is really focused on turning our 2D design into a 3D template. Not a 3D design, but just a 3D template for our finished world. Until this is, this is sort of building on the idea of prototyping. Where we're not really focused on the details, but we're focused on just sort of the big picture, that template of the design. And so where are things at? You know, how, like how are they structured and the scale of them compare it to other things. This is sort of high level stuff, not details, just sort of the layout. And so what is blocking? Blocking is really, are what you call blocking out is really about putting components in an area to show scale and really create a plan for how the world can be experienced. And so you want to say that like if there's, if there's buildings in the center than what's around the buildings will have the grass and then maybe mountains around that, maybe other stuff incorporated into it. It's really all about really looking at the details and looking at where the things that will have detail in it be ad. And so there's no details added. There's no textures, there's no lighting. None of that is very rough. This is all about narrowing your focus of the design for the world. And sand, we'll worry about the details later. Let's just, let's just focus on, let's just focus on laying out everything. And, and this is really just so that like what the, what the worlds were trying to create. We don't feel overwhelmed. Because when you add details and you add all these things to your list of tasks, then you can get overwhelmed with, okay, It's gonna take forever. I don't know where to start. So what we're doing is we're just saying, let's, let's lower the barrier of entry to get this thing started. And then as we progress with it, we can start adding more stuff to it. And so right now, we're just going to be working with very simple stuff. And so how do you block out a design? Really blocking on a design is really focused on starting with the design that you have, right? The one that we did and Google Drawings. And then the goal is to convert that sketch, that 2D image into a 3D sketch. And so it's, so sketches in quotations because it's just, you're not actually sketching. You're just, you're just sort of converting the elements in the 2D and adding it into a 3D space. And so it's really just about providing depth to it. And then, you know, the more details you have in the design, the easier it is to visualize. And that 3D space because you like, okay, above the, above the buildings as the clouds. And above on the clouds is the, is the people. And right below that, right next to the buildings, it's the grass and the mountains. And so, you know, we're all those things have an idea of where those things aren't supposed to go. And so all you're doing with this is you're making sure that the different elements go in the places that they need to go in to to represent your sketch. So what you get alerted to start by just adding large objects and then, and then we'll be adding smaller objects to the same. And so primitives are just shapes that are great for blocking out stuff. And they allow you to create 3D objects in 3D space without having to worry about the details. And so primitives are just basic shapes. And the best part about it is that like you could change primitives and change the scale of them and fit them in space based on what you want them to, where you want them to be in. And you could add the details later. And so when we're talking about designing and prototyping and building our worlds. This makes it very easy. I'm flexible and fluid to, to design things. Because if you don't like it in one place, you could just move it to the other place if you want it to be bigger or smaller, you could do that very easily. In this lesson, it's all about blocking out that design now. And so now we have our sketch. Now it's time to block out our design from our sketch using primitives in Unity. And so using primitives, squares, circles, spheres, cubes, all those things, planes. Take the core concepts, the template that we have for a 2D sketch, and we're just going to convert it to a 3D template. 30. Blocking Example 2: And so this is where I left off at. Right here. We add some assets and stuff like that. But if you're just starting out, what I'll do is I'll start a new project where I'll start any scene. And so in order to start a new scene, you can right-click or you can click this drop down arrow right here by like to right-click. And then I'll go to create. And then I'll go to seen. What I'll do is I'll create a new scene. And I will call this world one like that. And so when he double-click the new same, it, it creates an empty scene that doesn't have anything in it. And so after that, what I'll do is I will go through and find where my, my design is. So with it, notice how I have my design right here. And so hopefully you all have your own designs that you had been working on. And any should just be able to just have it side-by-side if you want or if you want to have any other areas of focus with that, you can. So I have my empty I have my empty project with my main camera, my directional light. And so what I could do with this, right, is what the blank canvas, I look at the different areas, the different things that I have in my same. And so I have my my, my mountains, I have my a grass, I have my buildings, clouds at these birds over here. And all of these are from my roadmap that I created. And so if I add my roadmap to it. So if I could add my roadmap right here. Having multiple screens is always great, but it can be a hassle sometimes. Yep. So I have my my roadmap right here, which I used for all the words and taught the clouds at the cityscape with the loud cars. Dancing and dance battles which represent, are represented by these I have E, no mountains, rocks of all that stuff. All that stuff is sort of referenced in here, visualized here. And so with it, all I wanna do is start converting this 2D sketch into a 3D space. And so what I'll do is I will start by just adding a plane or a ground. And so obviously if you go to, you gotta create objects in 3D objects. You have a cube, you have a sphere, capsule, cylinder, a plane, a rag doll textile that until it hit the ground, I probably want to just use a plain until plane is just a, just a space, a flat ground plane. Essentially. This will be essentially my ground. And so then if I want to have, if I want to have the buildings there, I could add buildings and I can just use the queue for that. And so the cube at my buildings. And I mentioned the rec tool before. And the rec tool is good if you're trying to, if you're trying to resize buildings and, and cubes without having to scale them, are figuring out how to scale them. And so what you could do as you get, have all these cubes here and you can duplicate them. You can move them around like that. And then if you have a if you have a rectangle or if you had the rec tool, then you could go through and you get make it smaller. You can make it skinnier. You could do all the things that you want it to make it fit the mold that you want. And so notice how I have add the ground here already. And so we'll say that that represents the the grass. But then I have this, Add the buildings here. And so with my buildings, I can go through and I could just make a whole bunch of different buildings. That, that can populate my sane. And it's really easy to just duplicate. You could use Control D to duplicate. And you can just go through and just duplicate all these and make a, make a interesting looking city. Like that. Socket scattered out a little bit more. I could have these be slightly different. Just to give it a little bit of variation. Uh, but remember, these are all, this isn't, we're not focused on the details right now. We're just focused on blocking out everything. So we know our buildings are there. If I want to add another, add another building, add another place. What I can do is I could have maybe a cylinder. The cylinder come out and Docker represent my my mountains. The mountains scattered around the sides of them. And it's also got the mountains here. And I can rotate it. I can duplicate it, rotate it the other way. I have my mountains on this side as well. And then maybe I could add some more mountains over here, make it a little larger like that. And so now I have my buildings. I have my, my mountains that are covering the covering of the area surrounding it, as you can see here. And then we'll say that this is our grass and the grass, I could cover it out a little bit more so that we have grass like that. And so notice how everything is white. And that can often be difficult to, to see sometimes. And so what we can do is we can actually change the color of these things. And so what I'll do is I will go ahead and create a new folder. So create a new folder. And I'll call this material. And with materials, I'll go into that folder and I'll right-click. And I'll create a new material. And what a material is, is, is it's essentially a, a, sort of a wrapper. The wrapper allows you to change the colors, make a metallic do all the cool stuff. And so what I'll do is I'll actually go through and that'll make a material for the mountains. And then I'll duplicate it. I'll duplicate it. And I'll make a material for the graphs. And then I'll make a material for the clouds. And I'll make a material for the buildings like that. All I did was just make make materials. I didn't really change anything, but I've made the materials for it. So we have four different materials. One for our mountains, grass, buildings and clouds. And so I suppose I should make, I should put my clouds in there first. And so I'll do that by creating a capsule. The capsule here, right? And I will rotate the capsule. And notice how the capsule is in the center. And I'll do is I'll just increase it and make it just be a little above. And I'll change my angle of the viewport as you can see. And so now I have one capsule for the clubs. And so I will just start adding some more. And I could change the size and make them bigger or smaller. I can move him around. And it's really all about just seeing what this sink, how these look in space. And so you can always move these around if you weren't. But it's all about really realizing this world. And sand, Okay, this thing has clouds, this in-house buildings. Maybe the clouds are really low. And since we have, we're supposed to have two clouds are a set of clouds for each dance battle. Type of thing. Well, we can do is we could have a cluster of clouds. So I'll make one cluster. Yep. How do you make the material folder? Yeah. So all you do is you go to Assets. Then you go to right-click in the open space here. Or you could click this drop-down menu what the plus sign. And notice how you see folder here. You click Folder, then they'll create a new folder right there. And that new folder, you can name as materials. I'll name of materials too. Materials one. But that's how you create a new materials folder. And then once you, once you do that, you can go in it. And then you could right-click. And you can create. And you could go to material and you create that material, That's the new material that you'll have. And so now that we have are now than we ever clouds, right? The next thing that we can do is we can start making the material colors. So if I click on my materials right, you'll notice in the inspector that there's albedo and opaque. There's a whole bunch of different settings. Right now. We don't want to worry about that, we just want to worry about the color. And so I'll say for the buildings, we want the buildings to probably be, we'll say bread will just say like we want red buildings. And so you go to the albedo here, you click, you click the color swatch that we have and allows you to change the colors with this wheel here. And then you could change the saturation where it goes from like white down to black down to the color of the top. And so I'll say that I want it to be red. And then you click X and then it will change the color to a red color. And so now all our buildings are going to be red. So we'll do with the clouds. What we'll do is we'll say that this is going to be like a very light blue. I'll say like a very light blue, like a sky blue. We'll have that for the clouds. For the grass. You just click the grass material. You click that, that white box right there. And then we'll change this to green. And then last but not least, we have the mountains and I like the mountains being brown. So then I'll just go does try to find that brown color. And you kinda have to play around with it a little bit, but finding that brown color, we have that. And so the next thing that we need to do, and this is where things get, is where things get really easy, right? So all you have to do to change the color of these materials is you just have to take that material and you just drag it. And so notice how if I drag it over the different objects, it changes it and it gives you a preview of it. So for the mountains, the mountains like that, the grass, the grass, clouds. Clouds. Just drag and drop, drag and drop like that. And then we have our buildings are buildings. We go through and just start changing the color of the buildings. And obviously because we're in 3D space, you've gotta be able to navigate it so that you get all the buildings in the back. Well, it looks like I forgot one. So this is our this is the prototype that I have or this is the 3D sketch, the blocking out. All right, so we have our mountains, we have our green grass, we have our clouds, we have our buildings right here. And that's pretty much what we did with our, with our sketch here. And so now that we have, are our design blocked out? It's in 3D space. You can look behind it, you can look in front of it. The world. I mean, it's starting to come together. 31. Blocking Example: And so what I'll do is I'll just walk you through like what that process is like. And so what that process, right? So say we have a say we have our Actually let me see if I could do like a split screen and show my design that I have. So I have my design and I have my, I have my viewport. I'll make it I'll make this as big as possible. We have our viewport, we have our hierarchy here. And we have, we have this open space. And so what I could do is I could just start dragging and dropping things and creating stuff in here too. Just make a 3D version of this picture here. And so first I could just start with a cube. So what I'll do is I can either right-click or I could click this drop-down menu. It's easier to just right-click and you got a 3D object. We go Q and then we have a cube in our, in our world, right? So then I could lift it up a little bit and I can make it I can make it longer like that. And so now as I lift it up, I can, now I have a cube there. And so that represents my first building. And so I could go through and duplicate it so I can right-click duplicate. And I can move it to the side. And I can scale it up, make it even bigger. And now I have another cute, another building. And I could duplicate it again in, I could make this one smaller. And I can move it down. And now I have three buildings like that. In if I want, I can make one building further back. I can have another building further out. And so now I have my building shown in 3D space now. So I have my cubes. The next thing I could do is say, Oh, I want to have a plane. And the plane is where the grass will be. So I get out a plane. And that plane can be essentially the ground. And so I get lifted up so that it fits the buildings. And then I can make it bigger so that it surrounds the buildings in a large space. And so now we can say that that's for my grass. And then what if I want to have the clouds? I get right-click and I can add an object and we'll say the clouds can be capsules. So see how the Cloud, the caps will sort of round. And so we can rotate it so that it kinda looks like a kinda looks like a pill or a cloud. Something that's round and it's above the city. So then I can duplicate it. And I could just have them circle. I have them surrounding my city like that. Add more. You can create more. You can make them bigger or smaller. So we'll say that one is small. That one is big. Will make it will make make one go further back. Probably drop it down. We'll make this one bigger or smaller like that. And so now the, I guess the last thing we could do is we could add some, add some more buildings. So we could say we'll go with we'll go at cylinders. And the cylinders can be the, can be the rocks and the mountains. So we'll say, we'll just make this wide and let's say that's a good mountain and will rotate it. And that's a mountain bear. Because another one. There's another one. Until now. We went from a, we went from a sketch that we had. And now we have a world of primitives, just like that. Lovely world of primitives. And so being able to play around with the entity and just with simple shapes and allows for you to create a whole bunch of cool stuff with it. 32. Populating Your World: Let's talk about populating the world. And we talked about this a little bit yesterday. But it's really, this is all about adding details to your world. And so the more details you add, the better the world looks and the better the world feels. And so really how do you populate your world? Populating your world is really all about dragging objects into your scene and ultimately replacing them, replacing the primitives with the 3D models that have more detail. And so remember that like really the purpose of Blocking was just focus on the design of the world. And then when you add details, all you're doing is just populating the world with, with those details to just swapping things out. So those red, so the red buildings that I have, I'm just going to swap those out with regular buildings. And ultimately like this is this is the time to add buildings, clouds, any of the things to your world to really make it come to life. And so it's not just a whole bunch of colliders and pills and, and cubes. It's actually, it's actually, you know, all the, all the details that we had planned out. And so one of the things about it, right? Do you need to create all your assets? Do you have to make everything Original? And the answer is now, the, the only thing you really need to do is really have the idea. And then, and then tapping with all the resources that are available. You can create stuff but you don't have to. And so really like building world, you have to understand that like it takes a team of creators to build worlds. It might start with the idea, but it really takes a team of collaborators and creators. And so for a solo creator, like all of us are right now, you know, you could really utilize the stuff that other people have utilized. And so the best part about it is that there are, there are creators and marketplaces that the other creditors post assets for, for others to use in their worlds. And, and these, you know, the, the, the creations that you find on these marketplaces there called assets. Until you hear 2D assets, 3D assets. They are there pieces of content that, that increase the level of detail for your, for the, for the worlds that you're building. And so really the big thing is like, where do you find all these assets, right? It really the internet. Like the Internet is a great place for it. Google, there's places called Sketchfab. There's turbo squid, there's the Unity Asset Store. 33. Unity Asset Store: You'll notice how if you go to Window and you go to Assets Store, you go search online. And when you do that, it takes you to this page. And this page allows for you to, to get a whole bunch of cool stuff. And, and so what I could do is I could say, and I have all these buildings that I can just download here. And more importantly, you get find a whole bunch of free stuff by clicking the pricing and say, Oh, I could get a building, I could get cartoon buildings. I could get sheds and stuff. And what I can do is actually say, okay, I want to get this cartoon building. I will add it to my assets and open it in unity. And once I do that, it opens this what is called a package manager. And I could actually just download it. Once I download it, I import it. And after I import it, It's going to be available in my project. So all I'll do is I'll go back to E and I have it imported. Great. And so now you'll notice how there's a folder called cartoon buildings now right here. And what that means is that I can open it, go to prefabs, and now I can just drag a billionaire. And so without any hassle, I just put a building into my scene just like that. And I could add another one, another one. So now the world starts to look a little more, a little better now, just by Googling stuff and searching for stuff. And now I get added to my scene. And I can rotate it. I can make it smaller. I can make it larger. You know, rotate it. I can move it around. 34. SketchFab: And so we, we explored and we got introduced to the Unity Asset Store, which is, which is a great place. But there's also there's other places, right? So if I go and I go to sketch and I just look up Sketchfab. Sketchfab is a place that you're able to look up different things for, right? So there's, there's different 3D models that people can look up and play around with. There's, there's just a lot of stuff that you get that you could download and play around with. Same thing what turbo squid and the same thing with the Unity Asset Store. And so you could go here, browse things, and download them. 35. Adding Assets: And so with it, like once you have your assets, you want to add them to your scene. And you want to add them to the, to essentially your projects that you have. And so in order to do that, really, all you have to do is drag and drop them. So if you're familiar with 3D models and the file formats for those, it's typically a FBX and an OBJ file. Very much like Microsoft where it uses dot DOC. It's just a format for for these different assets. And and I'll I'll walk you through how to like actually import these assets in and what the process would be for it. But but then obviously you have began Diaz's story which we went over yesterday. But then there's then there's assets that you get just download as packages. And once you have these, then you can go through and you get start adding those to your scene or a two-year project. And nor do that. Well, you have to do is go to Assets. Right here at the top, right next to edit and GameObjects, you go to Assets. You got to import custom package. And then once you have import custom package, you go to where the, where you downloaded the file folder. And we'll say let's do the adventure pack. So we'll do is we'll open it. And then it'll just start trying to add all this stuff to it. And you'll notice how there's already some stuff here that I already have. So I'll just click Import just because I wanted to does it imported all the stuff. And now I have this, now I have this thing called polygon, Vinterberg polygon adventure. And what polygon and venture does is it has, it has all these different assets that you could use right here. And so notice all of these things, right? Like these are all mountains and trees and all these different buildings and stuff that you could use for Neil, even have clouds. And all these things are stuff you can use for for building out your world. And so what we can do is we could do that with the city pack as well. So we go to Import Package from the assets, got a custom package, and we have our city pack. We click the city pack, we open that. And once it finishes with the content, I already imported all the stuff in there already. Until we can go back to our assets. And there's polygon city. And then when we go to scenes, we got a demo. And this is, this is a same, this is a demo saying that they have where it shows you all the, all the world's stuff that they built. And so I should be able to find it doesn't look like they have a scene for it. Yeah. It doesn't look like they have the scene for for all the assets that I have laid out. Unfortunately, I did. Oh. So what that allows you to do is it allows you to really look at all the different assets that are available in this. And so if we wanted to look at some prefabs are some models of like different buildings. You could do that by going until like polygon city, then prefabs and buildings. And once you do that, you can look in the inspector and notice how we have this building here. I could do is I can make this a little larger. And so it has these buildings here. And just different parts of these buildings allow you to create cool things. Office buildings get a variation. And you just have a, just have a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff to play around with and create stuff with. And also, if you have, if you downloaded the 3D models asset pack, then there's some other models that you can use. This one is black is beautiful, and then there's one called Afro pastel. And so what you could do in order to add those into it, as you go your assets and you create a folder called models. So just right-click create folder and you can call it model. When you go into the folder. Where you can do is you could take go into the asset pack that we let you download it. And where it says source and it says FBX. You can just drag and drop that into the empty space on the folder. And when you do that, it allows you to automatically import stuff in. So now when I click on that, this is the model that we have right there. And I could do the same thing with the other one. Pass, DO afro. Oh, go ahead and add that to it as well. And there we go. We have another one. So these are, these are two views, the two models that you could add to your scene as well to, to do some cool stuff. And so just to give you a glimpse of what these, what these look like in the real world. In your scene. I'll go to my model's folder. I can't find it in all the mini folders that I have. And I will add these two to my scene right here. So I have this one. And then what I can do is I could just make it smaller. I get places on top of the building that I have. And I have this one, can place it on top of this building or place it in front. Now, all I did was just download some, download some acids and I just placed them in the world that I had. Just like that. And so what it all you're doing is just finding assets and starting to download those and play around with them and sell it. So it's a pretty, pretty simple process. It allows for you to make some cool stuff in and not have to worry about the hassles. 36. Kitbashing: It's time to talk about Kit bashing, because kit bashing is, is really how you're going to be able to make use of all these different assets that you, that you are able to download and find on the Internet. And so this is all about mixing and matching assets to pop the light your world. And so when you're trying to populate stuff, you add stuff to it and then you get bash it to sort of make it all makes sense within the world. And so kit bashing, if remember from world-building wine, It's really utilizing elements from other things and using it to create something unique and different. And it really saves you a lot of time and allows you to focus on the idea that you wanted to explore and not the little details that can be meticulous. And so that allows for you to avoid the technical aspects of creating things and allows you to focus on the overall idea that you're trying to create. And you can spend more time on the emotions and the themes of the world, and not on drawing rocks or mountains. And so it, it really makes things, really allows for you to optimize your time a lot better when you're working on these things. And so the kickback, all you're doing is you're just taking something from one place and you're moving it to something different. And then you're being able to copy and paste and move it around so that it, so that it works. And with all the assets that you have, like in your projects, you can mix and match them to split. They really fit in, in a way that feels natural. In this activity. Now that we have our 3D template done, it's time to start kit bashing. We can populate our world with a whole bunch of different assets. And really just, we're just adding a variety of assets to our world and combining them to make something new, populate it, give our world an identity, a look. And so go ahead, take that on. 37. Kitbashing Example: Now the one thing about the, one thing about the projects folder that is really good is that if you go to Assets, notice how we have our top-level view of our different assets. But if they're named correctly, you could actually, instead of having to open up all these folders and all you have to do is just go through and type the name of the acid in there. So if I want a car, there's all these different cars that I have. A cart, cardboard, I have cart props. I have car wheels. I have different cars here. If I want a mountain, I can just type in mountain and I have access to a mountain that I want. Multiple mountains. And these are, these are really easy to use because you just drag and drop them. And so once you have all the assets imported, then it's all about, and it's all about picking which assets you want. Even if I want to building a building, I got tons of buildings that I could choose from. I got folders and buildings, I've got apartment buildings. I got a whole bunch of different things that I could choose from because, because the assets in my project. And so with that, I could go through and if I want to drag and drop some in there, I could do that. See I could drag apartment building just like that. And so go ahead and play around with all the different things that you have available. Okay. That is our time for just playing around with care bashing and stuff. So hopefully you were able to play around with stuff and I can find it. We started off with our design that we had. And from that design, we were able to create a, a, a block of for our design with some colors. And so now, once we finished that, now we actually were able to essentially create this world. So this is a, this is the one that I was working on. And as you can tell, we have our clouds, we have our let me see if I can have the side-by-side. We have our clouds, we have our mountains, wherever buildings we have our grass, we have all that stuff right here. And we were able to just put buildings together and do all that stuff. What the assets that we had. So we just focused on kit bashing. 38. Animating your world: Now that we have an idea of like how the kit bash and sort of populate our world. It's time to bring our world to life by adding some motion to it. And so in order to add some motion, it's really it's really pretty simple. It's, it's, you know, using just basic animation that, that we can, we can create with our, with our timelines. And so, how do you bring the world to life? You can bring the world to live by dislike really giving, get motion and sound. And so let's just think about all the things that like constitutes essentially living. And that's often how it moves. The noises it makes, the sort of the characteristics that come with those different objects. And so what you could do with it is it's incorporate these different things into it so that it makes things more immersive. And so you want to create a world that moves and has sound and looks a particular way. And by doing that, it resonates with people on a, on a deeper level. And so when it comes to motion and animation, There's a couple of different types. We could talk about. Keyframe animation, which is sort of frame-by-frame animation. That, That's what we'll sort of go with. And it's focusing on just moving objects in space and having each location be a keyframe. And so when you go from one keyframe to the next, there's the motion. And then, and then their skeletal animation or character animation, which is something that we'll go over in detail in one of the optional sessions that we'll have. All that's really focused on is like animating with characters, animating with different skeleton regs and stop. So dance animation, hand in hand animation and motion capture. That stuff is a skeletal animation. And so what's skeleton animation looks like, right? Essentially this, right? So lucky have objects, you have them moving in space and they're moving in sequence with other, with other components of that object. And so when you open up this, this character, there's bones and there's all these different extra parts that allow it to move in a way that feels natural. And so at the end of it, you have a character that can dance. And it's all using the same tools that you're creating for other things. And so what we're gonna do is we're going to start adding our animation timeline and adding the animation tools for us to make some function. And so when we go into our, when we go into our, our hierarchy, you're hierarchies might not look as great. But a great way to incorporate things in is to essentially create a new empty object. And then that new empty object can, can house a lot of different things. It could be a container. And so before we get started with animation, what we'll do is we'll create an empty object. And we'll just create an empty object by clicking this drop-down menu and then go to Create Empty. And then that'll create an empty GameObject. And what we can call that is animation. Like that. Just call it animation timeline. And Weren't you do that? What you can do is now we can start adding our animation timeline to it. And so in order to do that, you can go to Window, go to sequencing. And where it says timeline right here. When you click that, it has this timeline that we, that we like. And we could actually just drag the timeline down so that it fits right at the bottom. And so now we have a timeline in our scene. So if you select it, you see how you can rotate the timeline. There isn't actually, there's no, nothing that renders. So you won't actually see the timeline in the end the same, but it's there. And so what you could do is when we have our timeline here, notice how, when there's nothing selected, it says to create a timeline, select a game object. When it, when we select the animation timeline gain object. Then it says to begin a new timeline with animation timeline, create a director component and a timeline asset. And so in order to make this at a timeline to the same, what we're going to need to do is we need to add the component. And the beauty of unity Is that all you have to do is click a button and it does a lot of that stuff for you. And so what I'll do is I will have this icon right here. Actually, it won't let me click it until I actually create a timeline. So that's what I'll do. So we'll just go ahead and create. And then we will create again or just click Save. And now we have an animation timeline here. And not only that, but we have a playable director that appears in our animation timeline. And so what I can do is whenever I click a new object, notice how the timeline goes away. But if I click the animation timeline, the timeline comes back in order to keep the animation timeline there. Regardless of if I click the main camera or any of the other GameObjects, I can click this locks, this lock button right here. And when you do that, it stops it from going away when you click other objects. And this is really good to do because it allows you to work without having a mess stuff up. And so when you go into, you can go into the options are the settings, this gear icon in the top right. And you could go to where it says frame rate. And frame rate is simply how many frames or how many pictures, how, how much information is going to be in your animation. And so what I like to do is I actually like to just drop it down to 24. That makes them mix the file size a little smaller. And it allows for us to do a lot of cool stuff without having to do without having to tax our computer, with it, having to make a whole lot of frames. And so the frame rate, all that means is that for a minute within a second. Within a second, It's either going to have 24, 24 friction pictures, 30 pictures, or 60 pictures. And each picture is, it's essentially equivalent to data. And so the, you know, at 60 frames, you'll have 60 pictures. That means that you'll have a lot of, a lot more data per second. Then, then if you have 24, just because 60 is larger than 24. And so just by, just by having it at 60, it means that your file sizes are going to be much bigger. And so in order to make things a little more optimized and easier to render and easier to use. Tried to have things out of 24. Until now that we have that. The one thing that we want to do is you want to say like, Okay, what is, what are the things that we want to animate? And so we can create a new folder. And we could say, and Wiki call that animation. We'll call it animated objects right there. And so we call this animated objects. And so in order for us to, in order for us to animate something, we actually need to have some objects to animate. And so in our animated objects folder with your right-click on the folder. And we could add a 3D object, and we'll just add a cube. And what we'll do with the cube is we'll actually bring it forward like that. And we'll just place it on this. We'll place it on this building here. And then what we could do is we could actually just change the, change the color of it. So we'll make, we'll make the, will make this cube actually purple. So let's see if I could actually see if I can actually turn to me problems right now. I wonder why that is acting weird. Oh, we'll try it. This one. There we go. So we have our, we have our purple cube. And the purple cube is on our own, our building. So let's say that we want to take the purple q and we want to animate it to where it jumps from one building to the next, then to the next, and then back to the, back to that final spot. So what we could do is we have our cube here and we'll just name it. Jumping. And that jumping q. In order to make it an animated object, we could take the jumping cube and we can just drag it down to their timeline like this. And when we do that, you see how it says activation track, animation track, audio, and signal track. Activation track is when you're just able to turn things on and off, so they go invisible. Invisible. Activation track for animation track is when you're able to animate stuff, make it move an audio track, which is what we'll do in the next section that we'll be allowing us to make sounds. And so what we'll do is we'll just do an animation track. And notice how we have our animation track here. And so using our move tool and our transform tools, that's how we're able to animate. So notice we're just sitting gone this, we're sitting on this right here. In order to start our animation. You can click this red button and this will start the animation. And so how do you click the red button? Anything you do to move this object is where is how it's going to animate. So what we'll do is you'll click the red button. It's blinking in a SAM Start recording. And so what we'll do is when we make just a slight movement, notice how there's a, there's a little diamond here. That diamond is called a key frame. And the diamond allows us to make, make the positions of everything that we wanted for our for animation. So that will be the starting point. And so we'll say that this animation is going to be five seconds. And so because it's five seconds, what I could do is I could just go to five and I can just add another keyframe. And that keyframe we'll move represent both the final point. So we have one keyframe, which is the start, and the second keyframe which is the end. And that end is going to be the same exact spot that it started in. And so what we'll say is that at 1 second it goes to this building. So we'll just move it over. And it creates that keyframe. At two seconds. It'll go to this building. As we can see here. I can just get it going. And then at 3.5 seconds, we'll say that it goes to this building. And then at five seconds, it goes back there. And just to make it a little, little more impactful, we'll have it in between each one of these. It will sort of go up and down like that. So now if I click stop recording, I can go through and I can, we can watch the animation that place. So now when I click Play, we should see our animation just like that. Mountain cube. And so with that, we'll go ahead and play with all our animation stuff. We modify the keyframes. Really the thing that we wanna do is create our, create a new game object. Name it a timeline. However you want to name it animation timeline, world timeline. Create an animation timeline by pressing the Create button. And then we'll set the frames to 24 and the options. And then we'll animate an object with keyframes. 39. Animation Example: Now that we have our world populated, now it's time to give it life. And so we're going to start adding some animation to it. So we're going to create a new game object. We're going to name it world timeline, or whatever name you want to give for the timeline. We're going to create an animation timeline. Set the frame rate to 24 frames per second. And then we're going to animate objects using keyframe animation. Okay? Okay. Morning. Okay, So halfway you had a good chance to play around with some of the animation stuff. And it's really just all about just recording keyframes, playing around with them, manipulating them, manipulating objects, and they're having fun with it. Now once you're introduced to it, like this is this animation right here. So if you're interested in making cartoons or anything like that, like this, is it, this is how you do it. 40. Hearing Your World: And so now it's time to bring sound into, into your world. And so why does sound matter, right? Like sound engages the audience in a very immersive way. And I remember like the concept of immersion, right? Like where we are jumping into the ocean and it's just around us, like water's everywhere. We're immersed in water. Think about that. Think about it instead of it being water, but instead of it, instead of it being water, its sound and sound is all around us. It just sort of encompasses us in many ways. So when we add sound, you're able to incorporate hearing into an experience that makes the world more immersive. And so a sound evokes lot of emotion, mood, and it emphasizes a lot of the things that people see in your world. And so if you want to really make things immersive, you already captured the eyes with your visuals, but now you add sound to it, and now people can't escape it. It really affects the way people can experience it. And more importantly, sound and visuals can evoke something that neither one can do alone. And so sound is very good. And so how do you use sound? How can you use sound to enhance? All right, so like you can use sound to add more information until the world, right? And in every object you can think of that moves, has the capability or her potential to produce sound. And so just think about like, what do those sounds look like, right? And so more importantly, like you have all the control over these little details with it. We, we focused on blocking, we focused on all these different things. And so now this is where we can start adding details to our world. We added some details and the visuals. We could add details what sounds. And so you can add, say you have a dog and a dog, you, you want to make quack like a duck. You could do that. If you want to have a nature environment that sounds like Mozart, you could do that as well. If you want to have dance battles, blast and mega salient to some clouds, you could do that as well. Like there's so many things you could do with the sound. And so there's a lot of places where you could get sound and this, and these are going to be things that life will add to the pdx open tech thing for you guys to play around with later on. But there, there's just tons of places where you can get sound. You could even record your own sounds. You have your phone, you could go outside, you could record your voice. You can record yourself playing music. If God, my friends that play music, that works great. If you know how to get stuff off the Internet. Sound files, even the stuff that you make in the other workshops, those sounds vowels can be incorporated into your world. And to make it more immersive, there's other ones that we have here that I'll post in the post in the chat. Actually, yeah, I actually posted in the chat. And these are these are places where you can get different sounds from. And a lot of them are free. There's a lot of sound effects, explosions, barking, all types of stuff. And so with it, what we're gonna do is we're actually going to play around what's play around with adding sound to it. And so what we're gonna do is actually go through and we're going to go to our assets folder, which we have. And we can create a new folder. And that new folder is going to be called where is my assets folder? Create folder. There we go. And we'll call that audio. Call it audio. And so we have a folder called audio right here. And obviously there's nothing in it right now. But if we go back to our, the audio sounds that we had, our sounds from our 3D are world-building Sounds folder. If you open it, there's going to be a whole bunch of different sounds that you get add to it. We have city traffic with bird ambience. We have instrumentals, we have crowds, we have forest ambience, jungle sounds. There's a lot of sounds that highway traffic, there's a lot of sounds that we could add to it. And so what I'll do is I'll just copy and paste all these are all just drag these, all of these into my, into my folder. So they're all just going to go into my projects folder. And it may take a little while. Just because it's just takes it and it might just take a little while to just import them all in. But it's as simple as this. You have a sound file. You can just drag it into your audio folder. Just like that. Very simple. In Unity does all the heavy lifting for you. And I suppose I could only did make a couple of sounds, but what do you know? So now, notice how we have all our sound files in here. And in Unity, you could actually play around with things. So here the music sounds or stone beyond urge chirping. You have the talent goal of all of that. And so it's like, okay, now that we have them in our project, how do we actually get them into our, into our world that we built? We have the animations, right? And so now we need to add art, we need to add our sounds. So what we'll do is we'll go back to our hierarchy. We'll click that plus sign drop-down and we'll create a new empty. And this one we're going to call AudioManager. And we go to Audio Manager. Like that. We'll just name the Audio Manager. And so now that we have for audio manager, the next thing that we need to do is we need to go to Add component in our Inspector for AudioManager. And we'll type in audio. And when you type in audio, There's all these different things that you can use for audio. But what we want is called an audio source. And that audio source allows us to put audio clips into our world from here. And so now that we have our audio manager, we can drag the audio manager into our wicked, wicked, drag our audio manager into our timeline like this. Just drag it down into the timeline. And where you see that like white line dot pops out. And you could call this an audio track. And the audio track is where we are able to create, add the different audio effects to it. So if we want bird chirping, we could add that. Just like that. Just drag and drop. And so once we have that done, I'll go through, I'll place that. And then when we click, we have a sound playing. And if he can't hear that one, what I could do is I could put another one in there. And we'd get how this can play as well. So now as this, as this plays, plays the audio sound too. And so the interesting thing about this is that we can actually layer on our sounds. So say you want some to play on the timeline, what their animation, and they want others to play in the background. You could actually do that. So what we'll do is we'll say, we'll duplicate the audio manager. And we can say that this one can be to background. This one can be music. And so this AudioManager that plays music will say, Hey, we want to play a, an instrumental. We want to have that one play. Until it I'll do is I'll click. I'll just add the AudioClip to the audio source. And afterwards, I can just sit here, make sure that everything is good. Save it. And this is the first time we could actually press play this play button here. And we can see what happens. Actually, we want to make sure that our cameras face to put in the right direction. So we'll just say, I'll move my camera and rotate it. Or what I can do actually, which is really easy. As you can, press click on your camera, main camera. Because if you go in your game view, it's probably going to be a horrible looking view. If you go to the part of your view port, that's your ad that you really like. So say I want to frame this in a good and a good space like that. I click the camera. I go to GameObject up here. And I go to say Align With View. And when I do that, it changes the view just like that. And then I'll hide all the stuff I don't want to see. And then at the individual, I'll click play, just like that. And so what did go ahead and play around with the sounds will give you like a couple minutes to play around with sounds and stuff. But it's all about creating a new game object, naming it AudioManager, adding audio source component to your audio manager, and then adding the MP3s or the WAV files into your project. And then just adding it to the world. Like, like we like you just saw me do. And so you just have a component here. How did that called audio source for AudioManager. And then you just add one of the sounds into it. Now that we have things moving, it's time to give it some sound, right? Because everything that moves has sound. And so now we're going to create a new game object. We're going to name it AudioManager. We're going to add an audio source component to our audio manager. And then we're going to add an MP3 or a wave file to our project and add those sound files to our world. It's time to really give us an opportunity to hear what we're seeing in our world. 41. Recording Your World: Final thing that we're gonna be doing is learning how to capture and save files. And so what we're going to be doing is we're just looking at recording the world. And the reason we want to do that is because we want to be able to capture and share. And so we have stuff in our humanity timeline and in our editor. But how do you actually share that with people? And so the reasons we want to like record the world is because that's how we are able to let other people see it and experience it. If it's not a game or anything, then like you want to be able to send a video out. And so many other things that we know and we experience are often just shared and recorded and shared on the internet. And so for the worlds that you build, you want to know how to share with others as well. And so from there, what we're gonna do is we're going to use the NDP timeline and we're going to use some recording tools to do that. And so the whole point of sharing, right, is to just think about the things that we liked. Honestly just think about the things that we see around us all the time. Whether it's Instagram, twitter, YouTube, TikTok, all those different things. The reason those things are out there and the reason we know about them and we enjoy them for because people share that stuff with us. And so sharing contributes to a lot of the things that we enjoy and that we know and that we love. And so when you share, people see it. And then that leads to more opportunities to create great work or even build a community of round your work. And so when you have a following gets because you share your work and people read it resonates with people and they want to show their appreciation. And so if you make some cool stuff to share it, and then when you share, you'll reap the benefits of sharing. And so the whole point of this is to teach you how to share. And so what we're going to be doing is we are going to be learning about the center machine and the Unity recorder. And those are two things that allow us to share, record, and share the stuff from our timeline. And so when you go to sit, when you have set a machine, it allows you to put all these different cameras around and then you can animate them and create a whole bunch of different timelines and controls. Then the unity recorder allows you to save these, these recordings as videos that you could post on YouTube and all those different things. And so in order to do that, what we're going to do is we're gonna go to Window and we're going to go to Package Manager. And in Package Manager, we're going to go to where it says Unity Registry. And then we can type in cinema. And when you type in cinema than Senate machine will appear. And you can install that one. You just go through and once you have selected, you click Install. And it will go through and it will install all the stuff that it needs. And then once it's finished, if it's done installing, it'll say remove. And so you don't want to say remove. If you want to download some of the examples that they have, you could do that. Otherwise. The next one we wanna do is you'll type of record. And that will show up the Unity recorder and you click Install for that one. And again, if you, There's some sample seems like you get you. But you could tell if something is recorded or something that's downloaded and installed because there's going to be a green check mark. And it will say remove here. And so now that you have that, then the next thing that you do is you'll see that there's something called Cinema machine up here. Then if you go to Window and then you go to wanna say general. And you go to recorder. There's something called the recorder window. So those are the two things that we just downloaded. Cinna machine, which is up here. And then Window general. And recorder window is right here. So if you click the recorder window, it it's a, it's a window that you could have placed. You could sort of parented anywhere or place it anywhere and then send a machine. What we'll do is we'll click Sam machine. And we'll say Create virtual camera. And what create virtual camera allows you to do is it allows you to create a camera that you can animate. And when you do that, you actually create a virtual camera here. And so in order to make our animation and stuff work with our, with our camera. What I'll do is I'll place are I'll place the, the game view on the side so we could see it. But all we're gonna do is we're going to do is actually create a whole bunch of different cameras. And then we're going to blend them together so that it shows a little bit of motion. And so we're only doing this for five seconds, right? And so what we could do is in our timeline, because we should have the timeline still locked in our timeline. We click the drop-down menu. And what it allows us to do is we can have a cinema machine track. And that's in a machine track allows us to put cameras there. And so we'll just have a center machine truck just like that. And then what we can also do is we can add a recorder track. And the recorded track says, when you press the button, it'll record all the stuff on that track. And so we'll add that recorder track just like that. And then when you, before we go on into to populate our track, for the center machine, we can right-click. We can select the recorded track. Wicked, right-click it, and then we can add recorder clip. What that will do is it'll create a clip that will be five seconds. So whenever we click Record, it'll automatically record it. And so it does all that stuff by itself for us. And so when you see this thing that says none center machine brain, you can click this dot here and you'll select main camera, because that's the main camera that we'll use for Senate machine. And then all we do is we move the cameras around and we orient them in a space. And so we'll say that our first camera can start here. And what we could do is we could just drag and drop that camera down into our, into our scene like that. And then we can create a new set of machine camera. So create virtual camera again. And it will create CMV can too. And so when we create a new virtual camera, we go to another space on the timeline. And what that other spatial on the timeline. We can move our camera are CMV came to. We can move it to another space. We can rotate it. We can modify it. And then we can just add that to our team or our stuff again like that. And then what we'll do is we'll do just another camera. So we'll just do three cameras. Actually. Now we'll just do two. And so what I'll do is we'll say that like one camera goes one camera starts off. And then it'll move to the second camera. Oh yeah. The random decimals. Yes. It's a it's a, it's a hassle. Sometimes try to play with those decimal points. But you know, it's 1, 2. Once you start to play around with it, it becomes so much easier. And so what I like to do is I try to stay with whole numbers. And so what you could do is you could actually just in the rotation transform, we can just rotate it. You could click 90, you could click 180. It's all about what you wanna do. And so now that we have, are, now that we have our two cameras, right? So say we can sort of drag them, drag the side of it. So there's these arrows. So if you see the arrows here, you can drag them to make them larger or smaller. But you could actually make those arrows overlap. Those clips overlap. And so you get, have it overlap like that. And so the overlapping is where the animation comes from. And so what we could do is, and I could hide this so that it doesn't show it. But when you Oh, when they overlap, you'll see that like the camera actually moves. It looks like the camera's moving just because of that overlapping. And so what happens when it, when we play it, right? What happens when we play is that we will get that cinematic look of rotation in animation when we play our timeline. And so when we play the timeline, we just animated the camera. And so not only do we, can we animate the camera, but when we animate the camera will be able to record it now. And so notice how we have in the recorder. We have we can add a recorder. And we could call that a movie clip. And all the movie clip is is just a movie is is just a way for us to record our recorder clips. And so notice how remember the frames per second was 24. So we could change that to 24. And then what we could have is we get the recording mode on manual. And so we'll say start recording. We could do that. We have it on game view, which is the source that we weren't include the audio, will drop this down to the quality to medium just because we don't need high-quality. And then we had the filename and stuff. And so the thing about the output that we want to make sure is that we want to make sure that it's output that we, that we have in our scene or that we have in our project. And so it typically is the project folder that we have, the assets folder. And what that assets folder, I will just click on the project, will say path as project. And then, and then it'll save in, in a, in a file location that we can actually access. And so with it, all we can do is just click play here or start recording. And then you'll actually recorder our file until we'll just try that. And then after we stop recording, we can open up the file location. Just like that. And for this activity, now that we have a world moving in, hit has sounds, now it's time to record and share our stuff. And the best way to do that is by using the recording features. And so we're going to set up a virtual camera, add them to our timeline and record a 10 second video of our world. And after that, we'll be able to post it and share it with our community and our friends. 42. Wrap Up Project Animation: And so now that we're done with everything, right, we created a world. We got to explore world-building. And so as a recap of the course, we were able to see what world-building is. What are the elements of world-building that we need? Introducing the Unity game engine, exploring steps to create our world. And not only that, but we learned some animation in unity and how to crawl the Internet and kickbacks some assets. From this long journey. We were able to create a lot of stuff to and so we created a description of our world. We created a mood board. We roadmaps all the step we're going to build for a world. We sketched up for our world. We created a 3D template at added assets, animated at it sounds. And then we also learned how to record the world and share it. It was a lot of stuff that we did. And more importantly, we were able to really explore the tools that allows us to create from our imagination, put it on paper, and then put it out into the world. There was a lovely journey and I really appreciate everything that you are all able to accomplish with this. Be sure to share this in any way possible. And I really encourage you to continue making wonderful world and exploring the tools, whether it's unity, whether it's unreal or another tool, whether it's blender, whether it's just 2D animation with pen and paper. World-building is a wonderful experience that allows for you to build community and share your ideas without having to explicitly stated. It's all about experiences. And for me as a creator, I really appreciate having the opportunity to create experiences that are impactful for others. And so again, hopefully you learned a lot of stuff from this worldbuilding, the series and just journeying into worldbuilding, creating em, hopefully we could create more immersive stories and just make the world a more creative place.