The full workflow

Mastering Realistic Characters

$129.00 USD

Realistic Character Portrait Masterclass

Individual

$129.00 USD

Creating the Full Character

With over 20 hours of expert training, you'll learn how to make a full character bust for production. Every single step is shown in real time without time-lapses, from the first brushstroke in ZBrush to the final shader tweaks and lighting in Blender.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Professional Sculpting Workflow

Learn to sculpt like a professional and gain the techniques you need to create your own characters, including valuable insights into character design and anatomy.

Starting from a simple blockout, we'll bring our character to life through sculpting; every single step is covered, all the way from blocking out the shapes, to creating intricate details such as pores and wrinkles.

Industry Standard Texturing

Master realistic skin texturing and shading in Substance 3D Painter and Blender. This masterclass breaks down the full pipeline: painting Base Color, Roughness, and Scattering maps in Substance Painter, and exporting Displacement maps from ZBrush.

Finally, you will build a professional skin shader in Blender, mastering subsurface scattering for stunning, photorealistic results.

World Class Retopology

Using Blender, our character will be retopologized using simple and powerful techniques. We'll teach you an approach to retopo you can be use in any retopology software and on any character.

We'll end up with nice and clean topology that is guaranteed to deform beautifully in rigging and animation.

Learn the fundamentals

Follow in Any Software

While we're using Blender, ZBrush and Substance Painter, the real value of the course is in the fundamental skills you'll learn. As long as you're comfortable with your own 3D workflow, you can follow along in any other software. You can sculpt in Blender instead of ZBrush, texture in Mari instead of Painter, retopologize in Maya or Max, and light and render your character in Arnold, V-Ray or any other render engine.

DETAILS

What You'll Learn

You'll learn the full worfklow of making a 3d character - all with real-time videos - covering the sculpting, retopology, UVs, texturing, skin shading and lighting & rendering. We are using Blender, Substance 3D Painter and ZBrush in a professional and highly tested workflow.

What You Get

55 Videos Available for Streaming
All Blender, ZBrush, and Substance Painter scene files
20-page help-PDF
Lowres versions of specific alphas from the FlippedNormals Face Kit and FlippedNormals Eye Kit
Custom ZBrush UI and hotkeys

Requirements

You need to know how to use the 3D software used in the course.
Intermediate skills at texturing, sculpting and general Blender usage.

Skill Level

This course is made for artists with intermediate to advanced skill levels who wants to take their work to the next level. We highly recommend that you're comfortable with the software used while going through this character masterclass. Everything still is shown in real-time without any time lapses, meaning that you can still follow, though each step and feature won't be explained in-depth.

Your Instructor

Meet your teacher, Henning Sanden. He's been making characters in 3D for 20 years, creating characters for on blockbusters like Alien Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean, Venom, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Batman V Superman, and many others! He's also been making tutorials professionally for the last decade, making him perfect for teaching this course.

Industry Experience You Can Trust

From blockbuster films to AAA games, our instructors have contributed to some of the industry’s most recognized projects.