Mythological Female Character - Complete Game Pipeline (Udemy.com)

I've taken a couple of Abraham's other courses before, and usually he's pretty good at covering everything in great detail. However, not sure if it's because this is an older course of his, but this particular course has some issues, the main one being he does too much behind the scenes without highlighting it properly. It's still a decent course where you can learn a lot, but if I hadn't already known his workflow from some of his better courses beforehand I would have gotten lost in some parts. The early Zbrush sections are really good, they cover female anatomy quite well and I learned quite a bit from them. The Marvelous Designer section is fairly basic and doesn't have much depth, but gets the job done (would recommend looking elsewhere for a more thorough breakdown though). Retopology is also fairly well done until he hits the section where he goes back into Zbrush for a bit to fix some things. Now the fact that he goes back into Zbrush isn't the issue, it's a thing that's actually really useful to know, but then he kind of skips over the process of getting the refined mesh back into Maya and doesn't even show the step of subdividing and conforming the low poly mesh, you just go to the next video and it's already done with no mention of him doing it (he does mention this being a step earlier in the series, but again he never actually shows it). The texturing stage goes back to being pretty good, and overall I would rank it as great, but it suffers again from him doing some smaller things off camera that he never brings up, so if you don't have a good eye you'd never know that he'd done them (fingernails, redoing some of the tattoos, and giving the scalp a base texture for the hair). The hair section is where this course falls apart for me, it's feels very rushed and not much is shown. He shows you the basics of making a single hair card, then skips ahead showing you the finished hair cards he made and the hair entirely finished, with just a very brief look of how he laid some of them down and how he did the braids. Now of course it would be a waste of time to show the entire process with no breaks, but there needed to be a bit more than what was shown, say show snippets of important aspects as they're being made and then just skip the in between parts. Luckily I have one of his later courses that is entirely focused on hair cards and was able to figure things out by referencing that, but that's not something I should have had to do. In the end, while I do think Abraham is a great teacher based off the other courses I've gone through, this is one of his weaker ones. Overall it's decent, with the anatomy sections being great, but the fact that there's some off camera stuff that isn't covered very well is what drags down the score for me. I'd recommend instead finding some of the courses he did under NextTut, they're a bit more thorough and he does a better job describing what he did off camera.

I've just finished the project and I have a lot to thank Abraham for the excellent course. I learned a lot about the production pipeline of a real time/game ready character. In this course I used for the first time softwares such Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer and Marmoset Toolbag, and the simple and enjoyable way that Abraham Lean teaches makes everything cool and easy to learn. I have posted the project on my ArtStation and social media. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NGdBkb Again, huge thanks to Abraham and Victory 3D for the amazing course.

Good character course but obviously not for beginners if you are looking for a course in character building this will not be recommended, but if you've been into this industry profoundly and have essential knowledge of Zbrush, Maya and Substance painter you are in the right place.

This is very bad course. I could give it 3 stars or even 4 for sculpting and texturing parts, but all these editings behind camera are really confusing. Especially in the end when author said that he asked somebody to pose his character. It's very bad in my opinion. I posed my character eventually but not even close to course's posing. Also I'd like to say about parts where instructor don't know what's happening and try to find answers or parts where he change his mind about something and we need to redo everything. So thanks for course anyway, but I can't recommend it..

I found this course very informative and well structured. It's a great course for anyone who wants a step by step demonstration of sculpting, manual retopology, and texturing of the character. The course was easy to follow if you have some previous knowledge of ZBrush and Maya. I would highly recommend it!

As I was looking for a course that showed me how to sculpt and finish a female character, I did not expect too much detail on the anatomy of the female body (I didn't check all the lessons in the package). Boy was I wrong. The course is well balanced, alternates between theoretical and practical lesson. E.g. start with the anatomy of the torso, and the next lesson you will sculpt the torso. The theory is easy to follow, but still gives you the necessary information. A lot of reference is shown and he draws a lot on the reference to communicate and convey all the necessary information. The practical bits give you a lot of insight in what Abraham is doing as he walks you through it. He again shows the reference and shows how he applies this theory to his model. And even though I have rather limited knowledge in Zbrush I can follow along quite well. The only remark that I have is that you start with a base mesh, where as it would have been great if the whole model was made from scratch.

This took about 4 months of my spare time to legitimately follow along and complete. It was a labor intensive experience but so completely worth it. There's a lot of stuff here that I haven't found elsewhere, for example making high quality real-time hair (loved the part about creating braids), retopology tips for specific parts of anatomy, easy humanoid UV layout, realistic clothing modeling, and of course the texturing process. Of the software covered here, I was new to Substance Painter and my mind was totally blown by the quality of the results. Previously, I had been almost entirely hand-painting color maps but using all of the procedural magic of Substance was very eye-opening. Fantastic course and likable, highly knowledgeable instructor.

I love so so much this course. Really everything you need to know to get started and make amazing models right from the beginning. Some parts were challenging but very interesting. Now I feel much more confident working with Maya, Substance, and Zbrush. Everything is explained very clearly. I would totally recommend this course.

I'm currently 26 lessons in and I love this course already. I've tried getting into chracter sculpting many times before but always get thrown off with learning al lthe anatomy and bones and such, no matter how hard I tried. The way the instructor has the course alternate between learning the anatomy of an area, then sculpting that area the lesson after is really helpful in this regard. Well worth the money spent and I'm very excited to see future courses from this instructor, perhaps a male character? :P

When I started this course, I wasn't expecting much really, since I've been a 3D generalist for a year and do a bit of character modelling myself as well. But by far into the course, (around the back muscle anatomy) I think, I've come to realize just how much I need to perfect my skills yet. I feel really glad I've took this course! Edit: A complete, must have course if you're looking to model a character yourself with perfect anatomy and get a professional output for your portfolio. Highly recommended.