Category: 3D Character Design

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Orthographic Views (wireframe) Visual Screenshots and Final Video Creature_Render-Camera.mp4

Maya Export and Substance Painter Setup Before I could begin texturing, I had to export both the high poly (asset exported from zbrush earlier) and low poly (retopologised asset) as fbx files from maya, so I selected both separately and exported them as separate files as seen below. In substance painter, I set up the …

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Creating Seams After I have finished the retopology of my character model, it was time to UV unwrap it. UV unwrapping is a process that generates a 2D representation of a 3D object, which is generated by a UV/texture coordinates (Disguise, n.d.). This method is important for the texturing process that I will be carrying …

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Before I start to retopologise, I need to export my character sculpt from zbrush into maya. Since maya is the software that I will be using for retopology, it is important to export my file correctly. Maya cannot work properly if the mesh I export has more than 500 thousand polys (2d shapes). The first …

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Head Sculpt After I have finished with the blockout, it was time to start sculpting in the details on my character. Before I could do that, I had to merge several sub tools and then dynamesh them together. I started by sculpting the head by primarily using the move brush and knife curve tool (it …

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After drawing out the concepts and gathering reference images, I decided to start on the blockout of my character. A block out is a draft of an object 3D or otherwise which uses primitive shapes to get a basic shape for the final product. In my case, I will use Zbrush for the blockout and …

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For this module, I was tasked with creating a 3D character whilst demonstrating my understanding of 3D character design. I will be including the narrative description of my character, body style and personality, descriptions of colour design, visual style, character concepts and ideas and references to different sources that I have used. I will also …

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