WORKSHOP

Character Creation For Unreal Engine

Create A Game-Ready Character, From Start To Finish

Learn The Entire Pipeline

Ivan Lopez has been creating characters for games and feature films for more than 4 years and currently works as a freelance Character Artist. Some of his most recent works are; Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Men in Black: International, Godzilla King of the Monsters

Ivan will teach you the workflows for character creation and will guide you through all stages. You will learn all the steps in the pipeline and understand how to prepare your character for final presentation in Unreal Engine.

By the end of the workshop you'll:

Have produced a portfolio-ready character.
Sculpt the face and body in ZBrush
Create clothing in Marvelous Designer
Create low resolution topology and UVs
Textured clothing and realistic skin in Substance Painter
Create a hair in Maya's Xgen
Create materials and light your character in Unreal Engine.

Sprints

Our courses are built around job-readiness so we use Sprints to help break the content up into actionable units.

This workshop's total run time is 9 hours and 44 minutes.

SPRINT 1

Blocking Out The Character

68 minutes

In this sprint, Ivan Lopez gathers his reference and begins blocking in the character by sculpting the face and body.

SPRINT 2

Creating The Clothing In Marvelous Designer

65 minutes

In the next sprint, Ivan creates the majority of the clothing for his character in Marvelous Designer.

SPRINT 3

Creating Secondary & Tertiary Details

66 minutes

In the third sprint, Ivan adds primary, secondary, and tertiary details. Then he demonstrates hand sculpting pores and details vs using the Texturing.XYZ workflow.