Skin Test

Painting albedo map and displacement map / Import both albedo and dis map to zbrush to apply and starting for texturing and suing polypaint / Using extractor brushes and plane to grab the texture and boost up the texture and export skin albedo to Maya to test render and assign materials to it / Making lips smoother and nudge the polypaint and making rigged eyes and mirroring eyes.

Clothing

Very quick intro about marvelous tools / Making the sleeves, overcoat, scarfs in MD / Export to Zbrush to refine / Making collar in ZBrush and cleaning up mesh and edges and folds / Adding thickness to mesh and adding uvs and reconstructing mesh subdiv / Cloth brushes of 2021 / Paint dragon and using techniques to make strokes look very sharp.

Accessories

Modeling sword part using zmodeler and new features in zbrush 2020 and 2021/Using the radial system and curved tubes and make flower-shaped-like on the sword/Making buckles and fabric parts hanging from the hanger and adjusting/Blocking dragon shape on the hat with zbrush tools such as topology Curve brushes and matching them on the surface.

Scupting and Cloting Refine

Continue the Last week content to refine our sculpting and clothing, make it look more detail and perfect. In this week we are going to make logos ready for substance painter stamps and adjusting and making tools in zbrush and making pose and armor look better.

Hair Grooming

We start to groom the hair and hair parts of character;
XGen in Maya/Hair, eyebrows, lash, peach;
And we use unwrap in zbrush and maya uv layout to unwrap;
MD ready files are available for student to see and study;
Note we switch to maya 2020 update 4 for having a better and faster viewport;
Results as well as using of GPU to preview faster.

Xgen Grooming Continue

We will start grooming rest of xgen under hand and xgen in smaller parts and we will use zbrush latest update which is 2021.5 with Thick Skin Feature.

Furs on Cloth and Tweaking Face

We will work on fur on the coats and tweak the face and make materials for Character hands;
Finalizing pose of hands,sculpt and polypaint;
Adding noise to the hair color to have little color variation;
Tweaking eyes and light and removing dismap error;
Make up effect using Arnold mix shader;
Making of water drops in zbrush and rendering in maya;
Making pins on the coat.

Substance Painter to make textures for tools and cloth

We will start completing the pose in zbrush and transfer that to maya and we transfer hair xgen tweaking all the aspects of character including texture, lighting, materials, xgen and all the aspects.

Making of uvs and id masks in zbrush and texturing in substance and export and render in maya Arnold;
Convert xgen to polygon, correct cloth and make udims for main cloth;
Making the cloth material in substance painter and how to use alphas for cloth creases in substance painter and zbrush / adding details;
Making back fabrics on the the skirt and render.

Material Tweaking

We do some tweaks in cloth and pose and we do the rest of substance painter materials;
Sculpting on the bigger fabrics under sword and making uvs;
Sculpting big fold on the coat before substance painter;
Updating uvs;
hat armor unwrap in zbrush and maya;
Rendering cloth and scarf and exporting new meshes and dismaps;
Making new textures in substance painter;
Peach fuzz xgen on forhead and eyebrows.

Tweaking, lighting, shading, texturing and final compostion

We’ll go and add many more details. We will correct face, eyes, xgen grooming, lighting, shading, textures, etc until the final composition;
We find the flaws in external software and import it in to photoshop to see what make face and eyes look better;
Making flying hair in the front and add more depth to the hair;
Making iris brighter and refining skin and eyes’ setting;
Redoing coat sleeves and some notes related to its pose.