[Tutorials] Uartsy - Creating An MMO Game Character

Get 8 Module Course With Chris Bennett & Learn How To Create Fully-Realized MMO Game Characters!
During this 8 module course, Chris Bennett, you will learn a complete game character workflow and create a fully-realized MMO character or creature, beginning with the initial block-out and continuing through texturing, UV-ing, and creating a final render of your game-ready model.
The 5 most important lessons:

1. How to create a fully realized production ready professional 3D character model from a 2D concept.
   
2. Core artistic principals that will boost & aid your content creation.
   
3. Technical skills such as ZBrush sculpting methods, hand painted texture processes in 3D-Coat, & efficient game asset creation techniques.
   
4. Boost the quality of your art through professional peer reviewed critiques.
   
5. Plus time saving production methodologies & more!
   

Course Outline
Project 1 : Getting Started & Planning Your Asset
Covered Topics:

• Evaluating & Breaking Down A Concept
  
• Recognizing Key Design Elements
  
• Translating 2D Concepts Into 3D Space
  
• Preparing A Base Mesh For Sculpting
  

Learn how to effectively evaluate and break down a concept so you can efficiently build it within a production environment.
Follow along with Chris' concept or find your own online, and work on recognizing the key design elements that will aid you in translating the 2D concept into 3D space.
Prepare a quick base mesh for sculpting.
21 Lectures | 1 Assignment
Project 2 : Sculpting Theory
Covered Topics:

• Shape Language
  
• Proportion
  
• Anatomy
  
• Surface Planes
  
• Forms & Flow
  
• Beginning To Sculpt A Character
  

Shape language, proportion, anatomy, surface planes, forms and flow will be discussed in relation to how they can assist you in your sculpting. This will serve as solid foundation for you to begin sculpting.
Continue on from the base mesh in ZBrush as you begin sculpting the concept.
19 Lectures | 1 Assignment
Project 3 : Sculpting Continued
Covered Topics:

• Video Game Production Tips/Tricks
  
• ZBrush Sculpting Methods
  

It?s a full ZBrush lesson this week. You will continue to sculpt your character following the concept provided as Chris shares his ZBrush production tips/tricks and personal sculpting methods.
18 Lectures | 1 Assignment
Project 4 : Final Sculpting & Polypaint
Covered Topics:

• Detailing
  
• Adding Material Definition
  
• Polishing Your Sculpt
  
• First Pass Polypainting
  
• Prepping For Retopology & Baking
  

As you come to wrapping up your sculpt, Chris will be discussing how to detail and add material definition to your sculpts this week, as well as giving them some final polish.
Complete a quick polypaint pass to establish a base for you to paint on, and begin to prep your model for next week?s retopology and baking phase.
20 Lectures | 1 Assignment
Project 5 : Retopology
Covered Topics:

• Clean Topology Techniques
  

This is the week you?ve all been waiting for!!! Chris will be talking about how to get clean, efficient topology and UV's ready for baking.
19 Lectures | 1 Assignment
Project 6 : UVs and Baking
Covered Topics:

• Setting Up UVs For Baking
  
• Normal Map Theory Avoiding Seams
  
• Maximizing UV Space
  
• Baking Normal and Ambient Occlusion Maps
  

Unwrapping your low poly model of your character into a 1 to 1 UV space .
Baking Normal and Ambient Occlusion maps to project the hi polygon model detail to the low polygon game model.
20 Lectures | 1 Assignment
Project 7 : Texturing Continued
Covered Topics:

• Creating Texture Maps
  
• Testing Maps In Marmoset 2
  

This week will be less theory and more practical focused as you buckle down and create your desired texture maps.
There will also be some cross-over with weeks 7 & 8 as you test out your maps in the Marmoset 2 game engine.
23 Lectures
Project 8 : Rendering & Presentation
Covered Topics:

• Posing
  
• Lighting
  
• Mood
  
• Composition
  
• Rendering In Marmoset 2
  

Your creature is complete, now it?s time to show it off! This week you will set up renders and lighting in Marmoset 2 for your completed character model. Topics include: posing, lighting, mood and composition.
Following this will be the final wrap up of class.
17 Lectures
Project 9 : Critiques November 2014
8 Lectures
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