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Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 4: Hero Character Modeling and Texturing

In this series of tutorials, we'll go through the process of modeling and texturing the hero character for our indie game project. Software required: Maya LT 2015, Photoshop CS5, Mudbox 2014.

Justin Marshall - Pluralsight course - Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 4: Hero Character Modeling and Texturing
by Justin Marshall

What you'll learn

In this series of tutorials, we'll go through the process of modeling and texturing the hero character for our indie game project. If you started the Indie Game Development Pipeline with Volume 1, you've had a chance to work on your game concept art and begin creating the actual game functionality. In this volume, we'll build the 3D geometry for our hero character, a ghostly knight, using Maya LT. We'll begin by looking at the concept art and then jump into modeling the character's helmet. We'll look at a variety of polygon modeling tools as well as how we can integrate NURBS into our game modeling workflow. Once our geometry is built, we'll spend some time creating a UV layout in preparation for texturing. Then we'll use Photoshop and Mudbox to create a texture for the Ghost Knight. Once you've completed this volume, you can move on to Volume 5, where we'll go through the process of building up the rock monster boss for our game using Maya LT and ZBrush. Then you can continue on with subsequent volumes on rigging, animation, and final game assembly. These tutorials move step-by-step and use our particular concepts, but we really encourage you to have some fun and make it your own. Software required: Maya LT 2015, Photoshop CS5, Mudbox 2014.

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About the author

Justin Marshall - Pluralsight course - Indie Game Development Pipeline Volume 4: Hero Character Modeling and Texturing
Justin Marshall

Justin thrives as a lead modeling author at Pluralsight. Growing up, Justin found a deep interest for the computer graphics industry after watching movies like Jurassic Park, Toy Story and The Abyss. His ambition would lead him to work at Sony Imageworks in Los Angeles on movies like Monster House and Surf's Up. Justin has also had numerous articles, tutorials and images published in 3D World and 3D Artist.

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