Accelerating the Character Creation Pipeline in Maya
In this Maya tutorial, we'll learn how to accelerate the character development process by showing how to use a character generation program (Mixamo Fuse Basic) in conjunction with Maya, Mudbox, and Photoshop to efficiently develop a fully-realized, riggable character model. Software required: Maya, Mudbox, Mixamo Fuse, Photoshop.
What you'll learn
In this Maya tutorial, we'll learn how to accelerate the character development process by showing how to use a character generation program (Mixamo Fuse Basic) in conjunction with Maya, Mudbox and Photoshop to efficiently develop a fully-realized, riggable character model. Along the way, we'll use Maya to adjust our UV maps, model clothing, and eventually render our character model. We'll also use Mudbox to sculpt broad cloth folds and paint high-frequency normal maps. By the end of this Maya training, you'll not only have a fully-realized character model, but you'll also have a solid understanding of how to create your own characters quickly and efficiently. Software required: Maya, Mudbox, Mixamo Fuse, Photoshop.
Table of contents
- Forming the Head with Mixamo Fuse 9m
- Modeling the Body 8m
- Adding Clothing, Texturing, and Export 8m
- Editing the Mesh in Maya 10m
- Extracting the Sweater Mesh in Maya 9m
- Editing the Sweater in Maya 9m
- Adding a Neckline Hem to the Sweater 10m
- Creating Gloves 9m
- Rearranging Texture Maps and UVs 10m
- Continuing Textures and UVs 10m
- Switching Eye Textures 9m
- Final UV Edits and Geometry Renaming 8m
- Saving Individual Texture Maps 8m
- Creating the Face Paint 10m
- Stenciling the Face Design 11m
- Softening Wrinkles and Painting Pores 10m
- Adjusting Specular Color 9m
- Sculpting Sweater Folds 10m
- Finishing the Sweater Sculpt 10m
- Extracting Maps and Setting up to Paint 4m
- Creating Cloth, Stripe, and Hem Stencils 11m
- Painting Bump Maps 10m
- Painting Stripes on Sweater 11m
- Adding Specular Color and Textures 9m
- Extracting Ambient Occlusion 8m
- Rendering Our Character 9m
About the author
Eric Kunzendorf has been teaching computer graphics and animation at the college level for the last two decades at such varied institutions as Jacksonville University, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the Atlanta College of Art, and the School of Visual Arts’ Savannah campus. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Art history from Columbia University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia. Eric has contributed to several works including "Mastering Maya 8.... more