Beginner's Guide to Creature Creation for Games (Udemy.com)
Learn the complete pipeline to create a fully textured character ready for Unreal Engine 4.
Created by: Nexttut Education Pvt.Ltd.
Last updated August 2020
What you will learn
- Sculpting
- Retopology
- PBR Texturing
- Rendering with Unreal Engine 4
How it compares
Against the other 281 rated Udemy courses in Game Development Fundamentals on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 69% of them
- Reviews107#200 of 282 by number of reviews
- Length31.9 hourslonger than 95% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2020earlier than 75% of them
Course Description
Student Reviews :
MARWAN AMMAR says : Really an awesome course! the instructor Abraham Leal explains all aspects in detail I really like his teaching method, the course deserves more than 5 stars.
Prathamesh Suresh Jadhav says : Learned a lots of new things, great teacher, great course . just loved it, Thank you
Are you a beginner and want to create a game character from scratch and take that to a game engine ?
If that is the case then I welcome you to Nexttut Education´s Begginers Guide to Creature Creation for Games.
Instructor : My name is Abraham Leal, I am 3D Artist and producer and I have 8 years of experience in the industry. Currently I lead my own studio Critical Hit where we design and produce projects for the entertainment Industry.
What you can do at the end : At the end of this course, you will able to recreate a 3D Character from a concept. You will understand all the necessary steps to create the Anatomy, Props, Animation Ready topoloogy, UVs, Textures and Materials needed for a final professional look in Unreal Engine 4.
In this Course, we will be covering:
Maya Modelling
Zbrush Sculpting
Anatomy
Retopology
UV Mapping
Texturing
Rendering with Unreal Engine 4
Cinematic Lighting
Post Production
I will start the course by teaching you the basics of Maya and Zbrush. We will then jump into creating our high poly Character as well as all the props and weapons. We will then jump to Maya and Retopologize everything to meet the game engines guidelines. After that we will texture our character in substance painter using several of my favorite techniques. To finalize we will create a small scene using Unreal Engine 4 and we will add some cinematic lighting to our project.
Who should enroll : I have designed this course for beginner level students and artists who want to learn the complete pipeline that we use to create a character for games. However if you already know the basics i am sure you can learn a lot of useful tips and tricks along the way. In this course i will be using Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop and Unreal Engine 4, so be sure to have all of them installed to follow properly.
Enroll now and take your 3d Character skills to the next level!
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
107 Reviews
Nexttut Education Pvt.Ltd.
Welcome to Nexttut Education, Myself Nalini Kanta Jena, I am the founder and director of Nexttut Education. I have been teaching and working in the game industry since 2008.
I have been teaching here on Udemy since 2017 and have created few bestseller courses. student seems to love my work and I love them as well. Everything was fine but except one problem and that is student's growing demand to create various courses for them. I realize that I can never fulfill such massive number of request to create different courses so that is when Nexttut Education took it's shape.
We only create courses with highly talented professionals who has at least 5+ years off experience working in the film and game industry.
The single goal of Nexttut Education is to help students to become a production ready artist and get jobs wherever they want. We are committed to create high quality professional courses for 3d students. If you are a student learning from any local institution or a 3d artist who has just started working in the industry or an artist who has some years of experience, you have come to the right place.
We love you and your feedback. Please give us feedback on how we can make better courses for you and how we can help you in any ways.
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Reviews
By Abhilash on 8/25/2023
learnt a lot of things from this course. thank you abraham leal sir. you are the best I've been following all your courses and looking forward to new more. keep uploading new courses i am always looking upto them.
By Mongi on 3/6/2023
he is very good instructor. i hope he makes new course for human game character course like 'Male Character Creation - Complete Game Pipeline -from victory3d (also he teaches)'
By Kanishk Tripathi on 11/7/2022
This was my first proper and finished 3D character model. The tutorial helped a lot in understanding the proper workflow. The teacher went above and beyond to teach us about 3D modelling and texturing which was extremely helpful. Thank you so much and keep up the great work!
By Janna Asker on 10/21/2022
Great course, great teacher!The course is well structured, contains no water, everything is prepared for lectures. It helps me a lot during my studies on a more expensive course in one of online schools. Abraham is an awesome teacher, I highly recommend his courses!
By Ahmed Aruman on 6/25/2022
This course contains not only demon sculpting but a little bit of male and female head along with all the props. a fantastic guide through the full process of game character creation
By Gerbeson Souza on 3/24/2021
Good course, learn a lot mainly in the part of substacepainter and Unreal thanks for sharing, I posted on Artstation the final result. https://www.artstation.com/gersouzaa
By Peter Bernát on 12/25/2020
very good instructor, nice explaining, expected something like fast-moving, but it is beginner friendly, even with blender it is nicely explained and you can fallow along
By Rhajandre on 10/1/2020
Curso ideal para quem quer aprender de forma organizada, os exercícios que ele passa de treino durante me ajudou bastante principalmente no maya
By MARWAN AMMAR on 8/25/2020
Really an awesome course! the instructor Abraham Leal explains all aspects in detail I really like his teaching method, the course deserves more than 5 stars.
By André Pimentel Sales de Carvalho on 8/3/2020
Já tinha alguma experiência mas já aprendi várias coisas que são básicas e eu não conhecia
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