Creating a Game Character in Maya and Unity

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course introduction and reference

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The Sketch

Lecture 3: The Concept

Lecture 4: Colour Up

Lecture 5: Concept Break out

Chapter 2: Modelling In Maya

Lecture 1: Setting up Maya

Lecture 2: Modelling our Body

Lecture 3: Setting up Image planes and the base mesh.

Lecture 4: Manual Image planes

Lecture 5: Refining the base mesh

Lecture 6: Adding Arms

Lecture 7: Adding Hands

Lecture 8: Creating the Face and Bevels

Lecture 9: Creating the Face and Bevels – Part 2

Lecture 10: Defining Face and Crown

Lecture 11: Defining Face and Crown – Part 2

Lecture 12: Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer

Lecture 13: Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer – Part 2

Lecture 14: Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer – Part 3

Lecture 15: Creating the Leg and Shin Guards

Lecture 16: Creating the Leg and Shin Guards – Part 2

Lecture 17: Finishing the Boots

Lecture 18: Adding the Trouser Folds

Lecture 19: Adding the Trouser Folds – Part 2

Lecture 20: Adding the Trouser Belt

Lecture 21: Now we tackle the Armour

Lecture 22: Now we tackle the Armour part 2

Lecture 23: Armour part 2

Lecture 24: Creating Chain Mail

Lecture 25: Shape the Armour using Lattice Deformer

Lecture 26: Refining the Arms

Lecture 27: Refining the Hands

Lecture 28: Using Transfer Maps tips and tricks

Lecture 29: Transfer Maps part 2

Lecture 30: Importing our model to ZBrush quick tips

Lecture 31: Using ZBrush with Maya quicker workflows

Lecture 32: Back to Maya refining the Head

Lecture 33: Back to Maya refining the Head – Part 2

Lecture 34: More head refining

Lecture 35: More head refining – Part 2

Lecture 36: Creating a basic ear

Lecture 37: Ear part 2

Lecture 38: Adding our Ear to the Head

Lecture 39: Prepare our model for UV Unwrapping

Lecture 40: Quick dip back to ZBrush tips and tricks

Lecture 41: Prepare our model for UV Unwrapping part 2

Lecture 42: UV Map for Leg and Knee

Lecture 43: UV Map for Trousers

Lecture 44: Testing your UV with Custom Checker Maps

Lecture 45: UV Unwrap of body

Lecture 46: UV Unwrap of body – Part2

Lecture 47: Head UV Unwrap

Lecture 48: Thinking about the hair

Lecture 49: Tips on Hair

Lecture 50: Modelling the Hair

Lecture 51: Resculpting Hair

Lecture 52: Final Hair UVs

Lecture 53: Final Hair UVs part 2

Lecture 54: Creating the Crown

Lecture 55: UV Checking once again using custom Maps

Lecture 56: Finishing UVs

Lecture 57: Understanding UV sets

Lecture 58: Understanding UV sets – Part 2

Lecture 59: Using transfer maps to tranfer high res details

Lecture 60: Using transfer maps to tranfer high res details – Part 2

Lecture 61: Creating a Tileable Chainmail patch

Lecture 62: Chainmail Pattern

Lecture 63: Chainmail Pattern – Part 2

Lecture 64: Finishing our chain mail

Lecture 65: Forearms

Lecture 66: Quick Colour part 1

Lecture 67: Quick Colour part 2

Lecture 68: Creating the Face Texture

Lecture 69: Speed texturing techniques

Lecture 70: Creating Normal Maps

Lecture 71: Coming back to the hair for final tweaks

Lecture 72: Coming back to the hair for final tweaks – Part 2

Lecture 73: How to create a simple specular map

Lecture 74: Creating a bump map

Lecture 75: Adding Transparency

Lecture 76: Model cleanup

Lecture 77: Lets create a sword

Lecture 78: Lets create a sword – Part 2

Lecture 79: Parenting groups

Lecture 80: Animation Joints and Smooth Binding

Lecture 81: Robot rig and bind – A Quick lesson

Lecture 82: Set up and scene cleanup

Lecture 83: Clean Up part 2

Lecture 84: Model adjustments for optimal rig bind

Lecture 85: Model adjustments for optimal rig bind – Part 2

Lecture 86: Creating a Basic Rig

Lecture 87: Creating a Basic Rig – Part 2

Lecture 88: Binding our Rig to our Geometry – Smooth Bind

Lecture 89: Adding Skin Weights

Lecture 90: Adding IK handles to our rig

Lecture 91: IK Solvers

Lecture 92: Foot setup

Lecture 93: Animation Controllers