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Learn MoreGame Character Course - ZBrush to Substance Painter and more
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Game Character Course - ZBrush to Substance Painter and more
Learn to create a simple games character from scratch, in this indepth gaming course
Created byUK Online Training Centre
Last updated 2/2018
English
What you'll learn
- After this course you will have an understanding of whats involved to create a games asset
- You will know how to exports from ZBrush into Substance and export direct from ZBrush
- Be able to figure out the best solutions for your projects
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Course content
2 sections • 44 lectures • 8h 27m total length
- Game Character Course with ZBrush - Promotional4:00
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Course Outline2:55
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Over view of the course ahead.
- MINION DOWNLOAD ASSETS0:01
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Reference9:14
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Gathering the reference for the Minion
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Basemesh Part113:05
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets create the base mesh this is a multipart lecture broken into three sections
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Basemesh Part 27:26
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets create the base mesh this is a multipart lecture broken into three sections
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Basemesh Part 315:45
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets create the base mesh this is a multipart lecture broken into three sections
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Retopology for our Basemesh19:21
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
In this lecture I am going to show you how you can retopologise the base mesh we just created this will forn the lowres version and it is very important to practice this technique, specially note the edgeloop flow around the mough and eyes this is great for animation as everything will pull i the correct direction when we deform or animate it, Although I do not cover animation in this course it is still good practice!!!!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Setting up Polygroups8:24
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
in this lecture we will set up the polygroups, later in the course this will help us not only with isolating sections of our model but will also allow us to set up UV maps into seperate islands as well as that it will also be used as a colour ID in substance painter!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Creating the Goggles12:59
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
In this lecture we will create the google base mesh and use this for the high res version as well!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Goggle Lens4:43
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
In this lecture I will show you how to create the lens at the front of the goggles.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Edgeloops7:39
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Now we will create a series of edgeloops to hold the sculpts a bit tighter on division.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Minion Modifications6:02
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
OK back to tweaking our model with various modifications.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Teeth14:32
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets create the teeth for our model, we want a simple mesh for this so we will start with a simple cube, pay attention to the deletion of the faces we do this to cut down the number of polys and simplifiy our model, the rule is if you cannot see it delete it!! (but be carefull if youe animating some faces might be visible on deformations, just something to be aware of!)
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Hair8:21
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets add the Minion Hair to this guy, later in the course your see that we only use one side of the hair and mirror it so we use less texture space, as both are identcal we dont need to produce two UV maps positions.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - The Carrot16:19
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
As you can see we are getting quite a few subtools building up in our Minion so as to try to make it as clear as possible we are going to do a side project of a Carrot!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Retop and Project Carrot19:16
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
OK now we have modelled our carrot I am now going to retopologise it and also project the detail from high to low resolutions version.
this is a fundamental skill you should know, those of you that have taken other courses of mine will be familar with this method.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - First look at UVs16:49
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Right the carrot is a great way to introduce you to UV layout inside Zbrush, lets create a UV set and also show you how to take it out of Zbrush to Photoshop for Texturing.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Polypainting our Carrot8:27ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets now polypaint our carrot inside ZBrush is great and versatile in the face you can bring outside textures into ZBrush and then use tose textures to bake them back into the model or vica versa.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Exporting inside ZBrush15:13
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
I will now show you how you can export all the maps from Zbrush, with these exported assets you could if you wanted to take them into another aplication. I will show you this in practice!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Minion Strap12:57
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Now I have showed you the basics of exporting and creating UV and textures we can return back to the Minion!
Lets now create the strap for the goggles for our character.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Tongue7:39
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets give our character a tongue.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Painting and Detailing part 117:47
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
OK so over the next 4 lectures we will detail and paint our Minion pay attection to the techniques as we use them.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Painting and Detailing part 28:10
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Detail and paint our Minion pay attection to the techniques as we use them.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Painting and Detailing part 317:17
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Detail and paint our Minion pay attection to the techniques as we use them.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Painting and Detailing part 418:09
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Detail and paint our Minion pay attection to the techniques as we use them.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Custom brushes Stitches6:59
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
In this lecture I want to show you how we can detail and paint at the same time we will use a custom modified version of the stitch brush, please note Photoshop is used to create this brush.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - UV Unwrapping12:12
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets now go through the process of laying out our UVs for this character.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Adding more details9:55
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
I know we have just unwrapped our Minion and now we are detailing again, I want you to be aware that any order to things can easily be changed there is no set rules inside Zbrush so never worry to much about order within reason!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Creating a button alpha18:35
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets create a button for our character we will create an alpha from geometry to do this.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - UVs again!11:34
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
I always like to recheck and sometimes redo the UVs specially when making changes to the model, in this lesson we will repeat what we did before get familiar with this process your be using it a lot!!!!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Fox Skull14:13
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Now we are going to take another detour into another mini project this time we will take a 3D scan of a fox skull and turn it into a low resolution piece of usable geometry.
In this lesson we will export this one subtool out into Substance painter because it is just one subtool its going to be pretty straight forwards, however we will get more complex later using the naming conventions to help create out Normal Map without any artifacts projecting to other tools, more on that later.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Fox Skull colour ID19:23
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Being able to create a colour ID is pretty usefull for masking inside Substance we will now do that as well as add bolt heads to the skulls high poly tool.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Fox Skull Textures from ZBrush12:39
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Now I am going to polypaint the Skull inside Zbrush and output that as a map into Substance.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Fox Skull Baking Problems16:52
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
In this lesson we will look at the problems you might face with the normal map projection, pay close attentions to what is being said here its important to understand it fully!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Fox Skull Multimesh Baking19:39
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
In this video I am now going to show you the method I use to bake multiple meshes from ZBrush into Substance Painter, Make sure you understand this fully!!!
Check out the info sheets from allegorithmic Makers of Substance Painter
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Preparing the Minion11:34
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Right back to our Minion lets prepare him for export!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - MinionExport/Import to Substance17:51
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
OK now for the main event lets export from Zbrush to Subtance painter, direct from Zbrush to Substance, and create all the maps we need.
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Exporting maps as OBJ ZBrush5:03
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Just a quick side step whilst we are in the exporting and importing stage I wanted to show you how to export normally from ZBrush and merge the maps if you have set up a UV set, this is good to know as these files can still be used for Game as you have done all your texturing inside ZBrush itself!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - ID revisit3:33
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
I know we already did this so chances are you already have the ID map however it important to see it again, I was going to remove this lecture but feel repetition is warranted for this!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Substance texturing11:03
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Lets do some simple texturing inside Substance
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Substance Exporting10:42
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
Now lets say we have finished in Substance we now need to get all the maps and mehses out, please note you do not need to export the mesh if you do not want as you already have it as low poly!!!
I will also have a quick look at rendering in Substance while we are there!
- Creating a Games Character Course The Minion! - Getting the asset into Marmoset13:10
ZBrush Game Character Creation Course Using Zbrush, Substance Painter and Marmoset Toolbag3!
To finish the course we will now import the final version into Marmoset.
We covered a lot in this lesson I hope you guys found this primer course of use your now ready to move into the full workshops!!!
- BONUS LECTURE - HELP AND ADVICE0:24
COME AND JOIN THE FUN ON MY CLOSED FACEBOOK GROUP
For help and a community to talk to, I offer this to help my students get the most from my courses and to engage likeminded people in creativity, this is a place you can share your renders and receive critiques to help you move forward with your modelling, riggin and rendering.
VISIT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2090968914457947 and Join the fun!
You will also see on my YouTube channel I offer and often create help videos for my students for FREE visit and subscribe to my YouTube channel!
VISIT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0J-Dc48vLXlNLTXp8NAXgA
Requirements
- Software Used: ZBrush 4 r8
- Software Used: Substance Painter 2017
- Software Used: Marmoset Toolbag 3
- For demo only: Maya not essential to have this software!
Description
Want to get into Game design but dont know where to start?
then this is the course for you!
During this course you will see a whole pipeline and along the way you will understand what is required to create games characters inside Zbrush, I also show you how to get the assets straight out of ZBrush both High and Low poly models and into Substance Painter!!
In this course you will learn essential skills to turn your ZBrush sculpts into low res game ready assets, this indepth course covers three main programs and will be used as follows:
- ZBrush 4 R8: Where you will build your character and texture him up, then prepare him for export into Substance painter.
- Substance Painter: You will learn how to export from ZBrush to Substance without the need of other software, I also show you exactly whats happening for the exports to work and supply a work sheet of the protocals!
- Marmoset Toolbag 3: We will look at how to get exported maps as well as the mesh into Marmoset and set up for render.
Important Information
This course also uses Maya it is not needed for the course but does explain more clearly what goes on with exports from ZBrush this program was used to make more clarity on what is happening.
Who this course is for:
- Because the software uses multple programs I recommend Intermedate level students!
- Anyone Intersted in creating game assets
- Anyone interested in Exporting direct to Substance painter from Zbrush