3D Design for Production With Vitaly Bulgarov In this lecture, Vitaly Bulgarov shows his process of creating a fully rendered 3D design for production-oriented pipelines. Using the example of an alien bust, Vitaly goes through the main steps of creatinga sci-fi character design from scratch. He begins by making a quick bust sketch in ZBrush®. He then creates a detailed suit design in XSI® using the block-out as a guideline for the proportions of the alien bust.By doing this, Vitaly shows the techniques and tools he uses to create complicated surfaces like multi-layered metal plates, rubber pads, tubes, and attachments. Solving design on the fly, without making anypreliminary sketches, he builds a fully detailed mesh for the helmet and suit, explaining why certain design decisions are made. Once the model is complete, Vitaly takes it into KeyShot® for raytrace rendering and thenbrings the renders to Photoshop® to finalize the design, push the overall look and bring more personality to the character by adding final textures and detail enhancements. 148 Minutes of LectureTopics Covered: - Sketching a guide mesh in ZBrush
- Introduction to XSI Modeling Workflow
- Retopologizing and Refining Form in XSI
- Relaxing and Shrink-wrapping geometry in XSI
- Micro Detailing
- Using existing edges to add extra details
- Material and Lighting setup in Keyshot
- Rendering with KeyShot
- Refining Textures and Materials in Photoshop
Chapters - ZBrush Block Out
- XSI Intro
- XSI Block Out
- XSI Initial Detail
- Topology Clean Up
- Neck Refinement
- Refinement Part 1
- Refinement Part 2
- Refinement Part 3
- KeyShot
- Photoshop
Instructor Bio: Vitaly Bulgarov is an award-winning 3D artist who is currently working at Blizzard Entertainment as a Cinematic Artist. He started his career in Moldova as a freelance artist about six years ago.After moving to Moscow he worked in major Russian game development studios as a full-time artist, while at the same time continuing to freelance for American and European studios. Vitaly regularly contributes to onlineCG artist forums and has won many awards including a CGChoice Award as well as the 3DTotal Excellence Award. |
