Kris Costa – Fly On The Wall – Native American Course

Kris Costa – Fly On The Wall – Native American Course

Salepage : Kris Costa – Fly On The Wall – Native American Course

Arichive : Kris Costa – Fly On The Wall – Native American Course

19.6 GB

This course was recorded during the LIVE class of Ocotober 2019 and is now available as off-line, self-paced content.

Course structure

Lesson 1 – Overall explanation about the class’ structure, camera lenses, likeness, cranium shape, brief introduction to skin and surface anatomy, blocking the forms from a planar head basemesh

Lesson 2 – Likeness progress: more references added, nostrils, ears, lips, eyes, overall sculpture continued

Lesson 3 – Eyes sizes, distances, rotation, render settings, HDRI sources, HDRI and area lights, first render tests

Timelapse #1

Timelapse #2

Timelapse #3

Lesson 4 – Mesh planning, UVs planning, sketch reprojection into new topology with ZWrap, Alien Skin Xposure Demo, more scultpting

Lesson 5 – Pores constrution, pores arrays, sculpting with pores stamps, exporting and rendering displacement maps

Lesson 6 – Wrinkles, blending wrinkles and pores, microgeometry, displacement render tests

Lesson 7 – Bump height map, specular map, micro-bump + displacement render tests, skin shader update, directional wrinkles

Lesson 8 – sculpting the lips, more blending of wrinkles and pores, nose bridge and forehead sculpting

Review Sessions 1: Morning Reviews

Review Sessions 1: Night Reviews

Lesson 9 – Polypainting the albedo maps and rendering them to test

Lesson 10 – Eyes explored: model, sculpting, scale, distance, shaders, textures, rendering

Lesson 10b – Iris Sculpt Timelapse

Lesson 11 – Model improvements: ears, chin, cheeks, nose, eyebags, neck detail and refinements. More skin randomness added

Lesson 12 – Introduction to XGen, grooming eyelashes and peachfuzz

Lesson 13 – Grooming the eyebrows with XGen, updates on the skin, HDRI and camera tricks

Lesson 14 – Grooming the main hair with XGen Interactive + Guides

Polypainted Maps Examples (all in progress, but a good base reference)

Lesson 15 – Braids, Hair Update, Eyelid Tweaks

Lesson 16 – Final meeting: recap of all main points, braids grooming update, post effects, industry talk, clothing shading