Creature Production by Michael Pavlovich

On January 22, 2019

Release date:2018

Duration:18 h 30 m

Author:Michael Pavlovich

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Part 1 is 69 videos, 8 hours, and covers the entire creation, from concept blockout to high frequency details, of the high res and polypaint of the reptile creature in ZBrush. Part 2 is 87 videos, 8 hours, and covers the entire game res process, from retopology all the way to real time rendering solutions. ZBrush retopology, Maya 2016 modeling toolkit retopology, redirecting edgeflow for animation, Headus UV layout, Maya UV tools, ZBrush UV Master, baking maps in Substance Painter, XNormal, ZBrush, Maya, and Substance Designer, texturing in Substance Painter 2.0, rendering in IRAY, Marmoset, and Octane. If you get both parts, you’ll also get a bonus 2 hours that covers the creation of the column prop and posing of the reptile creature, the 3D printing process of the prop, and the making of the marketing image using ZBrush render layers and Photoshop.

Table of Contents

Part 1 High Res Videos:
Blockout:
19:55 Blockout Overview
05:37 Setup
16:00 Basic Brushes Part 1 & 2
21:08 Rough Blockout Part 1 & 2
04:26 Subtool Dynamesh
12:29 ZSphere Base Body
33:03 Body Blockout Part 1 – 5
05:05 Dynamesh Resolution
07:30 Head Unit Plane
02:47 Transpose Head Units
03:39 Polygroup Masking
03:24 Evaluating Silhouette
04:56 Materials And Lights
Refine Sculpt:
1:14:10 Overview Part 1 – 5
20:03 Splitting And Refining Head Part 1 & 2
09:31 Eyeballs And Rough Teeth
08:53 Mouth Flap And Tongue
04:55 Form Exploration And Sinew
05:24 Horns
08:59 Teeth
04:05 Secondary Details
10:47 Custom Insert Scales Brush
02:52 Thickness Close Holes
02:16 Thickness Extraction
02:38 Thickness ZRemesh And Project
03:08 Thickness Morph Diff
06:27 Nanomesh Scales Topology
06:36 Nanomesh Scales Polygroups
06:22 Nanomesh Scales Application
07:06 Applying Back Scales
05:47 Thick Skin Details
07:05 ZRemesh And Project
09:53 Skin Direction
01:12 ZRemesh Teeth
06:06 Alpha Skin Detailing
05:27 Custom Skin Alphas
02:02 Layers And Morph Targets
06:49 Surface Noise
08:07 Curve Brush Gills
08:59 Claws
05:18 Finger Grips
Polypainting:
16:45 Polypaint Overview
05:41 Polypaint Basics
03:45 Skin Mottling
11:48 Skin Layering Part 1 & 2
03:33 Cavity Masking
03:38 Cavity Painting
01:30 Brush Color Modes
07:20 Building Up Scales
03:47 Adding Detail
01:49 Testing Ideas
03:52 Material Painting
02:06 Post Effects Filters
03:01 Basic Lighting
05:15 Spotlight Texturing

Part 2 Game Res Videos:
Retopology:
19:05 Retopology Overview
07:21 Topology Review
03:47 Mouthbag Creation
03:54 ZRemesh for Animation
06:21 Polypaint Guides
03:09 ZSphere Topology
06:03 Poypainting Body Topology
07:10 Reptile Topology Flow
12:55 ZSphere Retopology
06:02 ZRemesh
11:02 Zremesh Cleanup
04:19 Crash Recovery And Fixes
07:00 Exporting Bake And Resurface Meshes
04:38 Assigning And Exporting Mat IDs
05:08 Maya Scene Organization
04:06 Live Mesh Setup
04:23 Modeling Live Append To Polygon
05:23 Modeling Live Transfer And Tweak
04:39 Modeling Live Edge Operations
07:24 Modeling Live Cleanup And Mirror
02:38 Modeling Live Symmetry And Soft Select
05:36 Quad Draw Part 1
04:20 Quad Draw Part 2
03:46 Topology And Constraints
09:46 Redirecting Flow
07:55 Duplicating And Snapping Fingers
03:09 Primitive Snapping
UVs:
09:28 Reptile UVs And Bake Overview
23:47 Headus Part 1-3
05:10 Maya UV Setup
06:15 Maya Basics
05:07 Checker Utilities
07:23 Maya UV Window
04:45 Texel Density
05:43 Packing And Texture Sizes
04:48 Finish Maya Packing
03:45 Maya Auto UV
08:23 Maya Cut Pin Unfold
08:50 Surface Normals
07:12 ZBrush UV Master
01:04 Exporting Low
Baking:
07:57 Multi Baking In Painter
05:05 XNormal Setup And Maps
06:06 Ray Distance And Cage
00:13 XNormal Save Settings
04:06 Corrective Bakes
07:11 Photoshop Map Compositing
03:44 Viewing Maps In Maya
02:51 Exporting Game Model
03:17 Baking Auxillary Maps
03:03 UV Snapshot
05:59 Baking Maps In ZBrush
02:13 Baking Maps In Maya
02:35 Knald
Texturing:
14:06 Texturing Overview
10:13 Texturing Overview Variants
02:26 PBR Resources
06:09 Painter 2 Overview And Setup
08:36 Texture Map Explanations
04:31 Plugging In Maps
03:44 PBR Basics
03:48 Materials Tab
06:42 Custom Material Base Color
05:31 Custom Material Height And Roughness
04:29 Custom Smart Material
04:34 Smart Material Dissection
08:46 Belly And Back Skin
03:05 Back Skin Procedural Mask
05:33 Brush Basics
03:12 Mask Filters
01:40 Polypaint As Base Color
14:08 Texturing Areas Part 1 & 2
03:52 Projection
03:25 Quick Mask
05:56 Custom Alpha And Stitches
04:10 Custom Brick And Tri-Planar Projection
05:54 SSS And Transmission
03:21 Emissive And AO Channels
04:49 Painter Walkthrough And Render
06:08 Texture Variants
02:09 Particle Texturing
04:14 Export Texture Configs
05:13 Iteration Creation
Rendering:
05:09 IRAY Render
05:31 Marmoset Setup And Lighting
03:10 Painter Octane Export
04:07 Octane Materials
03:33 Assigning Textures
04:49 Render Target
07:13 Lighting Environments
04:04 Octane Camera And Export
Bonus Section for Part 1 & 2 Bundle Purchase:
11:14 Pose And Column Sculpt Overview
03:02 Transpose Master Setup
02:10 Adding Reference Meshes
11:40 Mask And Transpose
03:02 Transferring And Cleanup
02:04 Transpose Envelope Discussion
05:05 Fine Tuning The Envelope
06:00 Transpose Envelope
03:27 ZModeler Column
07:36 Column Blockout
05:57 Column Refine
07:28 Plastered Brick
08:36 Rune Stone Alphas
04:12 Rune Stones Array
08:50 Column Destruction
03:16 3D Print Export And Cleanup
06:38 3D Print Supports And Print
02:31 3D Prints
08:47 ZBrush Render Passes
08:10 Photoshop Compositing