Hero 3D Asset Creation - In-Depth Tutorial Course

Name: Hero 3D Asset Creation - In-Depth Tutorial Course
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Learn how a professional prop artist works when creating hero props for games.

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Created byFastTrack Tutorials

Last updated 2/2021

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What you'll learn

How to create high quality 3D assets
How to create clean low poly and high poly models
How to do advanced texturing in Substance Painter
How to bake and render in marmoset Toolbag

Course content

3 sections • 39 lectures • 11h 56m total length

Trailer2:11
Learn to create a high-quality hero 3D asset from start to finish for close-ups using Blender 3D, booleans, UV unwrapping, baking, and texturing in Substance Painter.
Going over our reference and setting up blender17:37
Review reference images and set up Blender with essential plugins and shortcuts for efficient hero 3d asset creation. Structure reference-driven workflows and demonstrate practical Blender setups to jump into modeling.

Creating our Low Poly Part124:49
Creating our Low Poly Part222:03
Create a low poly hero by shaping geometry, applying extrusions, using booleans for cuts, and optimizing with an array modifier for repeated features.
Creating our Low Poly Part310:51
This lecture guides the cleanup of a low-poly model, showing how to connect loose edges, merge vertices at center, and remove stray edges for a smooth, bake-ready mesh.
Creating our Low Poly Part423:35
Creating our Low Poly Part522:30
Creating our Low Poly Part626:14
Creating our Low Poly Part718:29
Creating our Low Poly Part830:50
Creating our Low Poly Part913:57
Creating our Low Poly Part1018:24
Creating our Low Poly Part1115:29
Creating our Low Poly Part1222:51
Creating our Low Poly Part1322:15
Creating our Low Poly Part1416:32
Creating our High Poly Part119:46
Creating our High Poly Part216:49
Creating our High Poly Part323:40
UV Unwrapping our model Part122:56
UV Unwrapping our model Part213:46
Diagnose and fix UV deformation by clearing seams, reconnecting edges, and flipping normals. Then unwrap by selection, merge by distance, test phase mode, and apply average island scale.
Making Final Duplications14:40
Finish UV Unwrapping our model18:08
Creating our cables Part112:23
Create two or three cables using spline curves, bevel them into cylinders, and arrange them with gravity and simple clipping to simulate a bundled cable setup.
Creating our cables Part216:16
Preparing our assets for baking10:44

Baking our asset Part123:10
Import high and low poly assets, bake in Marmoset, adjust cage and normals, then preview and fix issues before exporting baked normal maps for final texturing.
Baking our asset Part214:11
Setting up Painter and adding normal details14:29
Creating our Material Part124:29
Guide learners through building a painted metal material with rust and dirt, using a big-to-small workflow, smart materials, occlusion, roughness, and height maps in Substance Painter.
Creating our Material Part220:13
Creating our Material Part322:31
Creating our Material Part413:57
Identify and fix broken UVs, unwrap misaligned edges, and reexport while updating maps in Substance Painter to ensure accurate normal and curvature maps.
Creating our Material Part513:27
Develop dirt build up in multiple stages, creating leaks and bottom dirt through masks and layers. Use particle effects and glow to enhance texture and realism.
Creating our Material Part624:49
Create and texture multiple materials for a 3D asset using metals, plastics, and mask-driven details. Apply rust, dirt, and wear with generators, then fine-tune roughness and occlusion for realism.
Creating our Material Part711:49
Create a yellow plastic material with white and black accents, tweak roughness and metallics, and add bolts, dirt, and surface details before exporting pbr textures for a final marmoset scene.
Setting up our marmoset render scene20:44
Polishing our texture19:36
Final Polish15:41
polish a 3d cable asset with texture setup, material tweaks, dirt, and lighting; create marketing images, set up turntable renders, and finalize high-quality presentation.

Requirements

For this course you will need a basic understanding already of Blender3D, Substance Painter, Marmoset Toolbag and Zbrush

Description

Hero Asset Creation - In-Depth Tutorial Course

Learn how a professional prop artist works when creating hero props for games. You’ll learn techniques like High Poly Modeling, Low Poly Modeling, UV Unwrapping, quick boolean creation, Texture Baking, Texturing, Rendering – and much more!

BLENDER, PAINTER AND MARMOSET TOOLBAG

All the modeling and UV mapping are done in Blender and a very small part in Zbrush, Texturing will be done using Substance painter, and the final rendering will be done within marmoset toolbag 4.

In this course, you will learn everything you need to know to create the final results that you see in the images and trailers

11+ HOURS!

This course contains over 11+ hours of content – You can follow along with every single step – The course does inclose a few small time lapses, this is just to speed up very repetitive tasks, the rest is done in real-time. –
We will start doing the low poly modeling in Blender, then we will move on to the high poly where we will use Zbrush to clean up our booleans. After that, we will be doing our UV Unwrapping and prepare our scene for baking. We will be doing our baking inside of Marmoset Toolbag 4, upon which we will move to Substance Painter where we will create our final texture. And finally, we will render our end result back again in Marmoset Toolbag 4. Everything in this tutorial course will be explained in detail.

SKILL LEVEL

This game art tutorial is perfect for students who have some familiarity with the tools Blender, Substance Painter, Zbrush, and Marmoset Toolbag 3/4– Everything in this tutorial will be explained in detail. However, if you have never touched blender or substance painter before we recommend that you first watch an introduction tutorial of those programs (you can find many of these for free on Youtube or paid on this very website)

TOOLS USED

Blender 2.8+
Marmoset Toolbag 4
Substance Painter
Zbrush

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Emiel Sleegers is a senior environment artist currently working in the AAA Game Industry. He’s worked on games like The Division 2 + DLC at Ubisoft, Forza Horizon 3 at Playground Games, and as a Freelancer on multiple projects as an Environment Artist and Material Artist.

SOURCE FILES

Please note that this project does not come with any source files or extra content due to platform limitations. If you want all source files & extra content like un-timelapsed footage please look us up on ArtStation, Gumroad or FlippedNormals

Who this course is for:

Semi-Beginner to Intermediate 3D Artists

Hero 3D Asset Creation - In-Depth Tutorial Course

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Course content

Trailer and Going over our Reference2 lectures • 20min

Modeling And UV-Unwrapping Our Asset24 lectures • 7hr 38min

Baking, Texturing and Final Rendering of our Asset13 lectures • 3hr 59min

Requirements

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