What's included and what's not included?

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

  • Review sessions

  • Live meetings with Q&As

Course Reviews

How are our students rating this course?

5 star rating

One of the best courses that I've took! without any doubt

Michael Robson

The course is perfect, the content is amazing and I couldn't find anything like that before. Kris is a very attentive teacher during the classes, doesn't for...

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The course is perfect, the content is amazing and I couldn't find anything like that before. Kris is a very attentive teacher during the classes, doesn't forget anything... the course definitely made my work go to another level!

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5 star rating

An amazing opportunity to learn!

michael svymbersky

As the name suggests, Fly on the wall is exactly that. A raw, unedited, over the shoulder look of one of the industry's best, teaching the techniques and wor...

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As the name suggests, Fly on the wall is exactly that. A raw, unedited, over the shoulder look of one of the industry's best, teaching the techniques and workflows of CG portraiture. Thank you Kris! 

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5 star rating

A different kind of learning.

Jaime López

I started this course while I was in my second year of university, and I was very concerned with my level being good enough to take part of the course. I sen...

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I started this course while I was in my second year of university, and I was very concerned with my level being good enough to take part of the course. I sent Kris a couple of e-mails and he encouraged me to enroll, and so I did! I can say now that it was an amazing experience. I honestly feel that I learned more in one month of FOTW than in 2 years of university. Being able to see the way such an experienced professional works, and how he interprets the models and curates them is unpayable, in my opinion. Another thing that's very interesting, is that the course is approached from a very artistic standpoint, but thanks to all the experience that Kris has, he spends all the course giving technical insight, which makes the course a very complete learning experience.

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5 star rating

The best course, the best teacher, the best professional,...

Miguel Thevirum

It is one of the best courses I have taken. Kris is a great professional and a very qualified teacher. Thanks to Kris, I have learned a lot of things that ma...

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It is one of the best courses I have taken. Kris is a great professional and a very qualified teacher. Thanks to Kris, I have learned a lot of things that make my workflow adequate, as well as a lot of tricks. Thanks, Kris, I know that taking this course, my work will have a level of quality that I never imagined.

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5 star rating

A beautiful experience, thanks.

Ricard Ramos

A complete class that goes through the process of sculpting a likeness, texturing, adding materials, rendering and post processing. It covers in depth artist...

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A complete class that goes through the process of sculpting a likeness, texturing, adding materials, rendering and post processing. It covers in depth artistic and technical approaches and even offers an ethical point of view of the work (something like this: every day explore, keep trying, work smarter - not harder, tell your story, enjoy the process and be nice to others). A beautiful class, one of my favorites.

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5 star rating

tha class can help you make amazing head.

John qiu

Not only teacher share his flow to us but also share may and june class to us .he is trying his best to us.i am so happy to join his "big family" because i c...

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Not only teacher share his flow to us but also share may and june class to us .he is trying his best to us.i am so happy to join his "big family" because i can learn a lot

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5 star rating

10/10 boi

Dmitry Yehorov

Besides the fact that Kris is one of the best masters in the industry, he is also a very open and cheerful person. I am amazed at how Kris successfully combi...

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Besides the fact that Kris is one of the best masters in the industry, he is also a very open and cheerful person. I am amazed at how Kris successfully combines work in one of the best studios in the world and teaching such complex material. Each lecture was filled with masterful tricks and techniques. Kris fully shows his pipeline with all the little things and creates a new work on each class! I myself was surprised by the incredible and beautiful result that Kris’s unique pipeline gives. It was an invaluable experience, thank you, Kris!

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5 star rating

Amazing experience for artist who want to be character mo...

Christopher Sugiarto

This is a great course for beginner artist to learn in-depth how to make character more appealing. Kris's approach is not that complicated and easy to follow...

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This is a great course for beginner artist to learn in-depth how to make character more appealing. Kris's approach is not that complicated and easy to follow when it comes to create a portraiture. In addition, Kris isn't applying unconventional brushes to his example. I feel that there's no other course that can compete with Fly On The Wall in terms of knowledge. I highly recommend for any artist to enroll his class. Moreover, Kris is a likeable teacher with an encouraging personality therefore no need to be shy to show your work in-class or during review session.

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5 star rating

portrait sculpting

phillip silverman

a no holds bared course on digital portraiture. unlike most courses that offer a piece meal approach, Kris goes through the entire process in great detail. ...

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a no holds bared course on digital portraiture. unlike most courses that offer a piece meal approach, Kris goes through the entire process in great detail. While the course is grounded in solid theory the real asset is practically going throw the entire process with Kris as he creates a hyper realistic portrait.

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5 star rating

Totally worth it !

Hamza Ben Salah

Highly recommended if you want to boost your skills, lot of useful information that might take you sometime to figure out by yourself, and Kris was kind enou...

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Highly recommended if you want to boost your skills, lot of useful information that might take you sometime to figure out by yourself, and Kris was kind enough to breakdown all the process step by step and guide you through his pipepline.

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5 star rating

Amazing Experience

Ivan Maturana

I am very impressed by the classes, the course wasn't only what was promised, it was much more, apart from technical and artistic learning, advice and good...

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I am very impressed by the classes, the course wasn't only what was promised, it was much more, apart from technical and artistic learning, advice and good vibes, I think only a few have the desire, patience and willingness to teach their techniques openly and Kris Costa is one of them.

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5 star rating

the best !

Pavel Vol'pin

if you want to see Master at the work you choose the right class !

if you want to see Master at the work you choose the right class !

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Welcome Letter

    • Support Files

  • 2

    Week 1

    • Lesson 1 - Camera lenses, head scale, UDIMs, blocking the forms from a sphere

    • Lesson 1 - Support file: timelapse sketch

    • Lesson 2 - Likeness progress, nostrils, overall sculpture continued

    • Lesson 2 - Support file: timelapse sculpt refinements

    • Lesson 3 - Eyes sizes, distances, rotation, render settings, HDRI, sources, HDRI and area lights

    • Lesson 4 - Sketch reprojection into new topology

  • 3

    Week 2

    • Lesson 5 - Pores constrution, pores arrays, sculpting with pores stamps

    • Lesson 6 - Wrinkles, blending wrinkles and pores, microgeometry, displacement render tests

    • Lesson 7 - Sculpting the lips, micro wrinkles, directional wrinkles, bump height map

    • Lesson 8 - Specular and bump height maps tested, micro detail sculpting on eyelids, ear sculpting, teeth

  • 4

    Week 3

    • Lesson 9 - Polypainting the albedo maps and rendering them to test

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

    • Lesson 10 - Support video: iris sculpting

    • Lesson 11 - Teeth explored: model, textures, shader and rendering, eyelids improvements

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

  • 5

    Week 4

    • Lesson 13 - Grooming the eyebrows with XGen

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

    • Lesson 15 - Recap/updated skin shader, teeth shader and some insights on my approach to digital sculpting

    • Lesson 16 - Final meeting. Post effects, fly away hairs, cleaning up Maya scene after crash, posing tips for portraits

  • 6

    Reviews

    • Review 1 - Part 1

    • Review 1 - Part 2

    • Review 2 - Part 1

    • Review 2 - Part 2

    • Please, review this Course

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