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Creating a Game Character in Maya and Unity
Detailed guide to creating games models in Maya and Unity, this course has over 80 videos and hours of content...
Created byDavid Newton
Last updated 3/2017
English
What you'll learn
- Create a good concept
- Have an understanding of the games creation pipeline
- Confidently model
- Understand Texturing
- Understand Rigging
- Understand UV Layout
- Animate and setup animations
- Export and Importing
- Get assets into Unity
- Full understanding of loads of tools in Maya
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Course content
3 sections • 107 lectures • 18h 48m total length
- Introduction4:34
Please download all the project files associated with this course :)
This lesson we will have a look at the course outline
- The Sketch10:39
Working in my design programme of choice photoshop, we will start to put togther our concept, using reference material gathered.
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- The Concept15:37
Continuing to refine our concept.
- Colour Up8:52
Once we havea our concept sketch we will start to add colour and tone.
- Concept Break out10:16
Our concept is completed but we now need to think about how we are going to model it, breaking your character up into sections make life a bit easier to visualise.
- Setting up Maya6:23
In this lesson we will set Maya up, in preparation for modelling.
- Modelling our Body13:55
OK so lets start building our base mesh.
- Setting up Image planes and the base mesh.10:27
We take a look at the Image Planes, and then using extrusion we develop our body.
- Manual Image planes16:34
We will now show you how to manually set up image planes.
- Refining the base mesh18:00
We will now start to further refine the base mesh, paying attention to the geomentry as we go.
- Adding Arms16:16
Modelling our base mesh arms.
- Adding Hands13:34
Modelling hands can be tricky I try to use a simple approach to build on.
- Creating the Face and Bevels13:41
We will now use a bevelling technique to start to refine our face.
- Creating the Face and Bevels - Part 26:55
- Defining Face and Crown12:56
Further facial refinements and the crown added.
- Defining Face and Crown - Part 214:27
- Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer7:18
Quick bit of modelling for the hair, we will use a animation tool called the lattice deformer to make changes quickly.
- Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer - Part 27:18
In this section there is about 5 seconds of footage missing at the very beginning pointed out by Robert Tighe (cheers for that!).
It easy to fix by now you should have a good knowledge of the box modelling techniques, all you need to do is select the tio edges of the head and extude them use the scale tool to mertge them in and finally merge the vertexes as you have done before :)
Any problems let me know!!!
Cheers David
- Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer - Part 37:18
In this video we have extruded the hair using the head, however dont worry about this video as we will tackle the hair later this was just a test later, its a good idea to watch this video as we reuse the lattice deformer.
- Creating the Leg and Shin Guards6:02
Lets now focus our attention on the Leg and Shin Guards.
- Creating the Leg and Shin Guards - Part 26:02
please note in this lesson I have extruded the shin pieces already you have done this lots of times already so should not find it difficult, just select the face and extruded out. Depending on your model you might not want this it's personal choice.
- Finishing the Boots16:16
We must now refine the boots.
- Adding the Trouser Folds5:19
Lets create nice folds in the pants.
- Adding the Trouser Folds - Part 25:19
- Adding the Trouser Belt10:41
On to creating our belt.
- Now we tackle the Armour5:51
Two lectures here covering the armour detailing
- Now we tackle the Armour part 25:51
- Armour part 212:07
FInal armour adjustments.
- Creating Chain Mail16:02
Lets try to create nice plate armour for our model.
- Shape the Armour using Lattice Deformer16:37
Final adjustments can be made quickly with the lattice deformer.
- Refining the Arms18:13
Various arm refinements need to be made.
- Refining the Hands13:02
Final hand refinements.
- Using Transfer Maps tips and tricks19:33
Here I am going to show you techniques for transfering high res detail to a low res model.
- Transfer Maps part 211:18
Second lecture in the course on transfer maps.
- Importing our model to ZBrush quick tips12:40
In this part of the course sit back and see how you can speed your models pipeline up by using ZBrush.
- Using ZBrush with Maya quicker workflows10:54
ZBrush part 2, take a breather!
- Back to Maya refining the Head5:17
Its critical to get the head correct, we will spend a bit of time here refining our model.
- Back to Maya refining the Head - Part 25:17
Refine the head geometry in Maya by selecting and moving vertices, stretching the head, and merging central verts to improve the head's shape.
- More head refining12:01
More refinement...
- More head refining - Part 219:09
- Creating a basic ear3:23
Modelling a basic ear using method we have already used.
- Ear part 28:12
Finishing our ear.
- Adding our Ear to the Head10:32
Adding our ear to the head.
- Prepare our model for UV Unwrapping12:43
OK so we have covered loads of basic modelling techniques by now should be much much faster using Maya, now we move on to a new phase we need to basically flatten our UV in order to lay textures over the top.
- Quick dip back to ZBrush tips and tricks7:07
Quick dip back to ZBrush to show you how we can easily modify the head geo.
Sit back and watch
- Prepare our model for UV Unwrapping part 29:43
This part of the course is all about UVs
- UV Map for Leg and Knee18:03
This part of the course is all about UVs
- UV Map for Trousers18:22This part of the course is all about UVs
- Testing your UV with Custom Checker Maps16:09
Testing our UVs quickly
- UV Unwrap of body8:37
Lets now unwrap the body parts.
- UV Unwrap of body - Part28:37
- Head UV Unwrap17:39
More unwrapping, hopefully this full on UV editing is sinking in, as you can see there are lots of different steps in creating a character.
- Thinking about the hair8:50
Hair can be done in various ways, in fact I could create a course just on this subject.
- Tips on Hair4:17
Looking at alphas transparency in Photoshop and Maya
- Modelling the Hair17:28
Redoing the hair.we will use the head as a base first we extract the faces from the head as a base for our hair.
- Resculpting Hair17:21
Hair resculpt.
- Final Hair UVs13:04
Adding the final UV for the hair.
- Final Hair UVs part 27:33
Finishing the hair at last!
- Creating the Crown14:36
Remodelling our crown.
- UV Checking once again using custom Maps15:14
Apply custom maps to a crown model by adjusting UVs, flipping checkers, scaling textures, and creating new UV sets, preparing for high-detail Textron texturing.
- Finishing UVs20:35
Final UV check.
- Understanding UV sets7:35
Understanding UV sets and Maps.
- Understanding UV sets - Part 27:35
- Using transfer maps to tranfer high res details10:13
Back to transfer maps for getting high res detail to a low res model.
- Using transfer maps to tranfer high res details - Part 210:13
- Creating a Tileable Chainmail patch20:54
Creating a chain Mail patch.
- Chainmail Pattern5:55
Creating a texture pattern from our patch.
- Chainmail Pattern - Part 25:55
Build a chainmail texture for a game character by arranging tiles, adjusting size, and applying color corrections. Generate bump and normal maps, then fine-tune hue, saturation, and levels for realism.
- Finishing our chain mail16:48
Adding and positioning our chain mail texture quick dip into Normal maps.
- Forearms16:42
Texturing our arm.
- Quick Colour part 110:19
- Quick Colour part 27:12
Quickly colouring our maps.
- Creating the Face Texture18:03
Tricks on texturing the face.
- Speed texturing techniques13:21
FInalising our texture map.
- Creating Normal Maps15:26
Creating normal maps, a handy plugin for Photoshop to create Normal Maps from textures.
- Coming back to the hair for final tweaks5:56
Hair texturing.
- Coming back to the hair for final tweaks - Part 25:56
- How to create a simple specular map11:52
Creating specular maps are essential to really make your models pop.
- Creating a bump map15:06
Bump maps are quick and easy to do in Photoshop.
- Adding Transparency6:21
The cloak and transparency.
- Model cleanup7:01
Final model cleanup.
- Lets create a sword6:04
Modelling a Sword - Basically we recap what we have learnt to date.
- Lets create a sword - Part 26:04
Create a sword in Maya by building the blade and scabbard, duplicating and merging geometry, applying color and texture, and preparing for lighting and texture mapping.
- Parenting groups14:12
Setting up animation groups and parenting.
- Animation Joints and Smooth Binding12:00
Rigging our character for animation.
- Robot rig and bind - A Quick lesson14:46
A quick side project to show you about rigging and binding.
- Set up and scene cleanup4:49
- Clean Up part 25:22
Setup for rigging
- Model adjustments for optimal rig bind5:28
The model needed to be put into a T-Pose as the A-Pose was causing weighting problems when smooth bound.
- Model adjustments for optimal rig bind - Part 25:28
- Creating a Basic Rig6:24
Lets set up our basic rig.
- Creating a Basic Rig - Part 26:24
- Binding our Rig to our Geometry - Smooth Bind2:42
Smooth binding our rig to the character.
- Adding Skin Weights13:45
Adjusting skin weights.
- Adding IK handles to our rig6:14
Creating IK Handles for controlling our joint system.
- IK Solvers9:02
IK Overview a quick side lesson on IK Handles.
- Foot setup7:21
Foot set up
- Animation Controllers15:05
Creating controllers for our Character.
- Creating an aim constraint4:47
Adding an aim constraint for our head.
- Our FInal rig5:08
Our final rig
- Final foot controller1:26
Final foot controller.
- Double checking model3:11
Lets now double check our model.
- Unity set up and first run14:39
Using Unity 5 we will do a first run.And set up our Games engine.
- Direct import from Maya8:11
OK the next few videos show you how to import your model into Unity from Maya.
- First from the Maya file
- Importing an animated model8:49
Adding an animated Character from Maya
- FBX Import14:33
Most 3D Programmes can export into FBX format this lesson shows you how to import these to Unity.
And brings us to the end of this course I hope you have gained speed and skill in all aspects of Games Modelling along the way, please give me a favourable review if you have, if not please contact me and let me help before reviewing me badly :)
- End of Course Quiz, Quiz!
- BONUS LECTURE1:20
For those who have finished the course a massive "Well done!" for those still completing the course "Keep it up!" I just want to say thank you for choosing me and my course, it is really appreciated and means that I can produce more great courses for you in the future!
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I hope you had fun learning with this course and hope to see you at my other courses, please give me a review if you loved the course, if you did not like it also let me know, I take students opinions very seriously!
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Requirements
- As this is a beginners course you need know nothing
- It would be handy if you have a working knowledge of Photoshop, Maya and Unity
Description
Summary of this indepth course
With over 80 videos this course tries to cover all the main elements of creating a games model, that can be imported ito your favourite games engine (in this course we import into Unity5), there are hours and hours of training, and I have tried to be as thorough as possible with a clear direction of our goals.
Programmes used
- Maya 2013
- Photoshop CS6
- Unity 5
- ZBrush (but this is optional and only to demo quicker workflows)
I have been working hard over the last few months to put this together for you guys, this course was created after one of my you tube subscribers asked for it. It ended up being the biggest course I have ever done, I hope you enjoy it!!
Who this course is for:
- Beginners and Intermediates would benefit from this course
- Advanced users might be helped on certain aspects