Digital Creature Creation in ZBrush Photoshop and Maya with Ryan Kittleson

Release date:2015, November 11

Author:Ryan Kittleson

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

01 – Introduction 01 – Introduction 02 – What you should know before watching this course 03 – Using the exercise files

02 – 1. Preparing Your Workspace 04 – Installing custom brushes 05 – Preparing GoZ 06 – Optimizing tablet settings

03 – 2. Designing the Creature 07 – Brainstorming 08 – Refining a concept 09 – Gathering reference images

04 – 3. Basic Sculpting in ZBrush 10 – Starting with ZSpheres 11 – Posing the ZSpheres 12 – Sculpting the basic forms 13 – Using DynaMesh 14 – Sculpting muscles and mid-size shapes 15 – Defining joints 16 – Sculpting bony plates 17 – Sculpting leathery skin

05 – 4. Basic Modeling in Maya 18 – Using GoZ between ZBrush and Maya 19 – Making an eyeball 20 – Creating tail spikes 21 – Modeling a tooth 22 – Duplicating the teeth 23 – Finishing the teeth

06 – 5. Creating Topology for Animation 24 – Drawing guidelines for retopology 25 – Fleshing out the retopology guides 26 – Creating new topology 27 – Generating the new mesh 28 – Cleaning up the mesh in Maya 29 – Modeling the tail in Maya 30 – Modeling the claws 31 – Preparing to project detail 32 – Projecting detail to new topology 33 – Cleaning up projection problems

07 – 6. Creating the UV Layout 34 – Cutting UV seams 35 – Prepping UV shells for UV Master 36 – Using UV Master to unfold UVs 37 – Arranging UVs in Maya

08 – 7. Creating a Pedestal Environment 38 – Creating a pedestal with Spotlight 39 – Decimating the geometry 40 – Finishing the pedestal

09 – 8. Lighting and Shading 41 – Setting up the scene for rendering 42 – Making a key light 43 – Making a soft sky light 44 – Making a rim light 45 – Setting up a simple SSS skin shader 46 – Adjusting the skin shader 47 – Adding ambient occlusion to the shaders

10 – 9. Texturing 48 – Polypainting colors in ZBrush 49 – Extracting texture maps 50 – Organizing the maps into Photoshop layers 51 – Compositing the color maps in Photoshop 52 – Compositing the specular maps in Photoshop 53 – Importing the maps into Maya 54 – Connecting the maps to the shaders 55 – Setting up remap value nodes 56 – Editing remap value nodes

11 – 10. Posing the Model 57 – Designing the pose 58 – Linking subtools to the main body 59 – Posing with transpose tools 60 – Polishing the pose 61 – Finishing touches in ZBrush 62 – Finishing touches in Maya

12 – 11. Rendering 63 – Fine-tuning lights and render settings 64 – Batch rendering a turnable animation 65 – Polishing the renders in Photoshop

13 – Conclusion 66 – Whats next

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