This course was recorded during the LIVE class of Ocotober 2019 and is now available as off-line, self-paced content.
Course structure
Lesson 1 – Overall explanation about the class’ structure, camera lenses, likeness, cranium shape, brief introduction to skin and surface anatomy, blocking the forms from a planar head basemesh
Lesson 2 – Likeness progress: more references added, nostrils, ears, lips, eyes, overall sculpture continued
Lesson 3 – Eyes sizes, distances, rotation, render settings, HDRI sources, HDRI and area lights, first render tests
Timelapse #1
Timelapse #2
Timelapse #3
Lesson 4 – Mesh planning, UVs planning, sketch reprojection into new topology with ZWrap, Alien Skin Xposure Demo, more scultpting
Lesson 5 – Pores constrution, pores arrays, sculpting with pores stamps, exporting and rendering displacement maps
Lesson 6 – Wrinkles, blending wrinkles and pores, microgeometry, displacement render tests
Lesson 7 – Bump height map, specular map, micro-bump + displacement render tests, skin shader update, directional wrinkles
Lesson 8 – sculpting the lips, more blending of wrinkles and pores, nose bridge and forehead sculpting
Review Sessions 1: Morning Reviews
Review Sessions 1: Night Reviews
Lesson 9 – Polypainting the albedo maps and rendering them to test
Lesson 10 – Eyes explored: model, sculpting, scale, distance, shaders, textures, rendering
Lesson 10b – Iris Sculpt Timelapse
Lesson 11 – Model improvements: ears, chin, cheeks, nose, eyebags, neck detail and refinements. More skin randomness added
Lesson 12 – Introduction to XGen, grooming eyelashes and peachfuzz
Lesson 13 – Grooming the eyebrows with XGen, updates on the skin, HDRI and camera tricks
Lesson 14 – Grooming the main hair with XGen Interactive + Guides
Polypainted Maps Examples (all in progress, but a good base reference)
Lesson 15 – Braids, Hair Update, Eyelid Tweaks
Lesson 16 – Final meeting: recap of all main points, braids grooming update, post effects, industry talk, clothing shading
