Game Character Creation in Maya with Chris Reilly

MOV + Exercise Files | Duration: 2h 58min | 960x540 | Video: 30 fps 1163 kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 159 kbps 2 stereo | 695 MB

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Get a thorough overview of techniques for creating characters for video games or real-time rendered applications. Author Chris Reilly covers low-poly modeling, texturing and animation, using 3D model and texture assets created in Maya and Adobe Photoshop. The course also includes an overview of Unity 3, including importing characters and making interactive animations with the Script Editor.

Topics include:

• Optimizing, extruding, and sculpting geometry

• Modeling a character's head and body

• UV-mapping the head and body

• Mirroring and texturing

• Setting up the skeleton

• Rigging the head and body

• Skin binding & weight painting

• Controlling animation with scripts in Unity