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These videos are awesome. I shared some videos featuring Zak of 3DBuzz teaching UDK basics in the last post I made here, and since then I have discovered Unity 3D. Well, I already knew about Unity and had been whoring it all over the place to my friends to get to weigh out it’s usages, but now I know how to use Unity, there is a difference I guess.

I’m no pro, but I am definitely over the curve as an aspiring environment artist for the platform. Like any 3D app, this one has some things you need to know before you can complete an idea in its [very intuitive] shell. All thanks to Buzz.

This is a special series from 3DBuzz in that they are free videos, you can actually download them instead of stream them, and it’s the first time Jason and Zak have done videos together in a while. If you are already familiar with these guys, then there is no more need for introduction and you are eager to give their training material a look. In which case, here is that link: Jason Busby’s post on Unity Community for his Unity 3D Video Tutorials.

If however you are not familiar with these guys, you ought to check out the 3D Buzz home base. Plenty of free and paid training material and VTMs can be found there, along with a nice forum for 3D as well.

There are 29 Unity videos in all, and a 30th file which contains various assets you will need to follow the tutorial start to finish, and if you don’t like Quicktime (what’s wrong with you?), you can always stream them on the 3DBuzz site, though it may require a free registration before you can watch the whole episode. Be a member, they have good material.

I haven’t written much because there hasn’t been much to write. I’ve just been learning new things and failing at making a social network. Actually, it was starting off well, but spam bots invaded. Note to self: BuddyPress is good in theory, with a staff. lol. Anyway, this post is about Unity and free video tutorials, so I won’t track off too far from that. Enjoy.

The UDK is not just Unreal Tournament 3 and a mod tool. It is apparently capable of being used in the production of any kind of game you’d want to make, provided you know the in-and-outs of the proprietary editor Epic has supplied.

3DBuzz is well known for their video training material, offering streaming content to members of their site, as well as a host of DVD-Rom based training.

They were the people behind the training that came with the UT3 Game Of The Year edition, and the 20+ hours offered at the UDK Video Turorials page seems not to differ a lot from UT3 level mod videos at first glance.

The final set (about a top-down custom game) appears promising however, and all of it is good material if you are new to UE3. Quite the value added when you consider that the aim of the videos are to show you the editor and get you a grip on how it works, that the videos are 100% free to UDK users, and that they are done in that 3DBuzz style. Zak is solo in this set, but he gets to the point.

I am on the fence about Unreal technology so far – just as I have been in its previous incarnations as a modding-only environment without millions to spend. It is nothing against Epic, but the only engine I’ve ever actually enjoyed making things in has been the GTA engine.

Then again, Unreal Engine 3 was never free-for-the-first-$5000 before now, and Rockstar Games hasn’t released the Rage SDK, either…

With over 50,000 users in the first week it became available, myself among those, it would be so cool to see a lot of independent, low-budget side-scroll platformers and top-downs coming out on Unreal Engine 3, a solution known for a financial reserve only to those with the largest budgets. Anyway, here are some videos, who’s using the editor?