Zbrush Characters for Games | Ankush Khare

Anatomy is a fundamental part of being a character artist. A basic understanding of landmarks, proportions, and muscles is necessary to create convincing believable characters.

1. Facial structure
2. Proportions
3. Create Appeal
4. Efficient Topology

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Build high-quality character face and expression management, and use scan materials to quickly create skin details.

Face Expressions stored as shape keys are fundamental for expressive and detailed animation pipelines used in the entertainment industry such as in movies or games. Learn how to create various facial expressions. Additionally, with the use of scanned faces, you will be able to increase the fidelity and believability of your characters.

1. Produce a detailed Head
2. Skin detailing
3. Shape Key Face Expressions

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A dynamic pose will sell the quality and emotions of your character. There are many ways to adjust the pose of your assets and character, but we will focus on the most time-efficient and quality-oriented methods based on sculpting.

1. Adjust Pose
2. Focus on Dynamic Appeal
3. How to create a realistic Pose

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Learn how to take use of texture painting softwares used in the industry. Quickly create High-Quality PBR Textures for Skin, Cloth, Metal, and Leather.
Surfacing is a core step for a Character artist who wishes to fully understand a Cinematic or Game environment pipeline.

1. PBR Texture Painting
2. Advanced Material setup
3. Final Rendering

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Hair Grooming/Styling is a very important part of creating a presentable character. We cover a cinematic quality workflow ranging from setup to creating materials.

1. Hair Grooming
2. Realistic Arrangement of Hair Strands
3. Creating Believable materials

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To create fast iterations for the client, you need to be able to quickly build assets and Characters from simple geometry.
Use Sub-D modeling techniques. The big picture has to be arranged to do quick judgments on the overall Character.

1. Refine Character silhouette
2. Decent Topology for Sculpting purposes
3. Cheat Sheet to achieve the Exact Design
4. Accomplish Primary
5. Secondary and Tertiary design

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Presentation heavily relies on quality rendering. Cut your development by learning from a professional setup, which focuses on pushing the most out of your Form and PBR Materials. Top clients want to see if you can achieve above standard results to fit into their pipeline as a 3D Character Artist

1. Powerful Lighting
2. Render Settings
3. Fine-tune shaders

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Every render is not a perfect result in itself.
Post-processing is a necessary step to make the most out of your efforts.
Make use of a 32bit workflow and achieve a high-quality polish overall.

1. Enhance Atmosphere
2. Add an Art Directed Background to Your Scene
3. 32-bit Color Grading

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Learn how to structure your project so that you seamlessly fit into modern art environments in larger studios. Some aspects of a professional artist are less known, such as naming conventions, color spaces, File sharing, and delivery.

Ankush Khare will help you understand what it takes to deliver on time.

1. Problem Solving
2. Client requirements
3. Reference management
4. Layer structure
5. Naming Conventions

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How to get hired for a studio or dream project can be intimidating. There are several mindsets to adopt when approaching work as a professional artist.

*This module will only be held upon your initiative response after completing all months..

1. Company Hierarchies
2. Email Outreach
3. Outsourcing

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Exposure can be beneficial to help attract clients and improve your international attention.

*This module will be conducted by the internal team based on the achieved level of polish at the end of your mentorship.

1. Interviews
2. Power of Editors
3. Understanding Feature articles

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Learn how to structure your portfolio to maximize the impression of your efforts.
LinkedIn and a proper presentation of your personal and professional work can help stand out.

*This module will be conducted by the internal team after finishing all acquired mentorship months with Ankush Khare

1. Understanding Client Needs
2. Naming Conventions
3. File Delivery
4. Structural Mindset

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