Modeling & Texturing a Dinosaur for Production

Learn how to model and texture a full dinosaur from start to finish! You’ll gain extremely valuable industry knowledge and can be applied to any project, from VFX to real-time.

Start to Finish

Covering concept sculpting in ZBrush, doing retopo in 3D Coat, detailing the dinosaur with custom alphas, UV mapping, polypainting in ZBrush, painting in Substance Painter, exporting maps and finally rendering in Marmoset Toolbag.

Your Teacher

Rowena Frenzel is a freelance character artist from Germany who specializes in creating colorful and fun creatures in 3D. She’s very passionate about teaching, which you’ll have the pleasure of experiencing in this course!

Individual Tutorial Series

• Modeling & Sculpting a Dinosaur
• Texturing a Dinosaur for Production

Tools Used

Note: A basic understanding of the software listed below is required to take this course.

• Maya
• ZBrush
• Substance Painter
• Marmoset Toolbag
• 3D Coat

Contains

• 24 video files in HD
• 10 Hours 3 Minutes of video
• Study sessions

Modeling Chapter List

00 – Overview
01 – Uvs
02 – Project Details to Low polymesh
03 – Colors  Part 1
03 – Colors Part 2
03 – Colors Part 3
04 – Export everything
05 – Tweaking Texture in Substance Painter
06 – Rendering

Texturing Chapter List

00 – Overview
01 – References
02 – Blockout
03 – Overpainting
04 – Layer Sculpting – Part 1
04 – Layer Sculpting – Part 2
04 – Layer Sculpting Part 3
05 – Creating Alphas
06 – Details Part 1
06 – Details Part 2
06 – Details Part 3
07 – Retopology – Part 1
07 – Retopology Part 2
08 – Posing
09 – Set Ideas