Character Modeling & Texturing For Game - Complete Pipeline (Udemy.com)

Nalini Kanta Jena's course walks through one game character from first sculpt to a textured, animation ready model. The course description lists 13 modules over about 23.5 hours. It opens with a small stylized head in ZBrush, then moves to the main character, its clothing, face and hair. After that come retopology in Maya, Topogun and ZBrush, UV unwrapping, baking and texturing in Substance Painter. It is labeled beginner, but it asks students to pick up four programs at once.

Reviewers like the teaching most. They call it clear and step by step, and one says he repeats key points so nobody has to go back and look things up. Others praise the attention to topology and the way he shows several methods for the same job. The complaints are specific. One student says the accent is hard to follow, and another found the language rough. A student on a 2018 ZBrush trial could not find the Dynamesh plugin and waited a week for a Q&A answer.

The course was last updated in 2018, so menus and features in ZBrush, Maya and Substance may look different today. Still, one 2019 reviewer says it caught them up on the ZBrush 2018 features, and the rating is 4.7 across 718 reviews. One reviewer thought the same course was cheaper elsewhere, so check the live price first. It suits people who want a full pipeline in one place and can cope with older software. Anyone wanting current tooling should look for something newer.