Prerequisites

Those classes are for intermediate to experienced artists. I do not recommend them for beginners, so before enrolling, make sure you meet the following criteria:

  • ZBrush: Strong knowledge of all fundamentals

  • Maya: some familiarity with the software's basics and interface

  • Good understading of the English language

What's included and what's not?

Here are the benefits of enrolling to this class

  • Self-paced

  • 32+ hours of detailed content

  • 16 videos, 2+ hours each

  • Access to Facebook Group

  • Upgradable to a Bundle or LIVE

  • Live meetings with Q&A

  • The basics are not included (UVs, topology, software basic functionality)

  • Review Sessions

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome Letter

    • Support Files
  • 2

    Week 1

    • Lesson 1 - Setting up Maya and ZBrush. ACES Color installation and setup. Class' structure, support materials, likeness, sketching from a sphere

    • Timelapse #1

    • Lesson 2 - Sculpting progress, adjusting the head scale, eye scale, focus on secondary forms, ZBrush Timelapse settings

    • Timelapse #2

    • Lesson 3 - Eyes sizes, distances and rotation. Area and dome lights explained. HDRI rendering tests and references.

    • Timelapse #3

    • Lesson 4 - Mesh and UDIMs planning, tips for UVs, sketch reprojection into new topology with ZWrap, Introduction to HD geometry
  • 3

    Week 2

    • Lesson 5 - Pores constrution, pores arrays, sculpting with pores stamps, exporting displacement maps, rendering disp maps in Maya

    • Lesson 6 - Wrinkles, blending wrinkles and pores, more brushes explored, tips on sculpting across multiple resolutions, displacement render test

    • Lesson 7 - sculpting further wrinkles and micro-wrinkles, nose pores and pimples, possible issues to avoid, bump height map, specular map, micro-bump and render tests

    • Lesson 8 - Sculpting the lips, refining the pores placement, more transition areas, more work on the primary and secondary forms
  • 4

    Week 3

    • Lesson 9 - Current skin shader nodes in detail, polypainting the albedo maps and rendering them to test

    • Lesson 10 - Eyes explored: model, sculpting, scale, distance, shaders, textures, rendering

    • Iris Sculpt Timelapse

    • Lesson 11 - Eyelids adjusted to eyeballs, further skin detailing around eyes, nose and forehead, tearlines, render tests

    • Lesson 12 - Introduction to XGen, grooming eyelashes and peachfuzz
  • 5

    Week 4

    • Lesson 13 - Grooming the eyebrows and nose hair with XGen, more sculpting techniques, hair density map, cloth shader

    • Lesson 14 - Grooming the main hair with XGen Interactive + Guides

    • Lesson 15 - Updated skin shader, vellus hair shader and glasses shader, sculpting tips on how to observe the forms, teeth model and shader

    • Lesson 16 - Final meeting: more sculpting tips, career, industry talk, inspiration, personal challenges, online presence, personal projects and closing words

  • 6

    Reviews

    • Bi-Weekly Reviews - Week 2 - Part 1 (morning)

    • Bi-Weekly Reviews - Week 2 - Part 2 (night)

    • Bi-Weekly Reviews - Week 4 - Part 1 (morning)

    • Bi-Weekly Reviews - Week 4 - Part 2 (night)

    • Please, review this Course

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