Unity: Product Visualization

Course details

Our world is filled with cool products, designed by talented and skilled creatives. Unity is a real-time rendering tool that is ideal for showcasing great product designs and ideas. In this course, designer Alan Thorn demonstrates step by step how to use Unity to comprehensively previsualize a retro-style coffee maker in an interactive way. Alan shows how to build the coffee maker from start to finish in Unity, and test out different features like pushable buttons, levers, moveable mugs, and other engaging product characteristics that can be previewed effectively in real time. He also demonstrates how to create camera sequences and work with responsive and adaptive user interfaces. This course is ideal for digital creatives and product designers seeking to showcase their ideas with depth and energy. By the end of this course, you'll be able to create real-time visualizations for your own products using the Unity engine.

Concepts

Introduction

Product visualization beginning to end
Exercise files

Getting Started

Project creation
Project review and package import
Importing project assets
Material workflow

Material Creation and Rigging

Creating the body material
Making glass and chrome materials
Creating a plastic material
Working with textures and mapping
Coffee maker rigging

Cinematography

Cinemachine and virtual cameras
Moving forward with virtual cameras
Camera transitions
Creating user interfaces
Working with interface buttons

Labels and Notifications

Creating world-space labels
Pivots and positioning
Label depth and the compositor
Camera-facing billboards

Creating Product Animations

The coffee mug animation
The tray removal animation
Production rotate animation
Coffee grinder animation

Sub-State Machines

Introducing sub-states
Creating the coffee mug loading sequence
Working with animation parameters
Tray removal and conflicts
Working with multiple sub-states
Connecting the UI to sub-states
Water refilling

Polishing and Building

Repairing animation glitches
Controlling label visibility
Handling interactions
Controlling the handle and tray animations
Creating the power and shot buttons
Creating a coffee particle system
Reviewing your progress
Building the visualization

Completing Product Interactions

Conclusion