FIRE ANT PIPELINE Introduction

This course is informational and has been created to show you how a complete workflow might be implemented.
We will be covering tip and tricks on the way but rather than you working along this course is designed to watch and understand the concepts and principals involved.

With the Fire Ant the first thing I idid here was to create a base mesh in Maya this mesh will be used to sculpt ontop of in ZBrush.

In this video we will look at the model and how the leg bases meshes were created you will alos see the Ant has it Secondary details added and test cavity maps applied at these early stages I did do some UV unwrapping in this case directly in ZBrush.

In this video you will see I have added the high resolution detail to our Fire Ant.

Lets have a look at the maps that were created in ZBrush.

Lets have a look at map exporting from ZBrush.

Importing our Model into Maya.

Now we will organise and check our model in Maya.

Lets check out material and render set up.

Lets continue setting up materials and renders.

Render tweaking our model.

For this lesson I have skipped forward to high light a problem I had with weighting the models skin, this was causing some pulling after reweighting that area I have resolved the problem.

In this lesson I will go over the rig with you, in the next lesson I will actually show you a bit of rigging in action.

Lets create the Skeleton for our legs.

In order to get the skeleton to animate the model we need to bind the two together.

In order to get a good bind we will need to weight our joints to our bound skin, we use weighting to do this.

Another method for weighting.

A model bound to a skeleton is a good start but we realy need to be able to easily control it!! We use controls to do this.

In this lesson I will show you IK Handles a great way to set up a multple joint manipulator.

Simple parented controls are essential for controlling and selecting some animatable parts of our model.

Lets have a look in more details at Parenting and groups.

In this final lesson we will look at simple keyframe animation in Maya.

To finish this informational pipeline course, I would like to point out there are hundreds of different ways to do many of the things you have watched and it is very important that you find your own workflows, this is a natural thing that will happen with more and more practice within these and different programs.

And for those of you who maybe have not used ZBrush or Maya maybe this course has helped and opened your eyes up to just a small fraction of what can be done in 3D in general.

I have produced quite a few courses as well as many other people here on Udemy on both ZBrush and Maya, I hope that this course has inspired you to jump in and USE YOUR FULL POTENTIAL!!

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