Video Game Character Texture Design Class

Character Texturing for Games in Substance

A 6-week course using Substance painter as a tool for texturing game characters

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OVERVIEW

COURSE OVERVIEW

Create textures for games

This class will go over how to use Substance painter as a tool for texturing game characters. We will go over good practices on how to UV a character, bake required maps inside substance, and setting up a scene. We will also go over how to texture props, cloths and skin for a character’s face and body (all required mesh provided). By the end of this class, students will have their textured assets presented inside their engine of choice. This course is about learning techniques using Substance Painter that students can later apply to their own projects.

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

6 Weeks

Materials:

Substance Painter, Zbrush, 3D Modeling package (Maya, Max, Blender, etc) Photoshop, and Marmoset ToolBag or Unreal Engine

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded

Assignment:

Due each week. Expect to spend 10-20 hrs/wk viewing lectures, q&a, and assignment.

Skills Level:

Intermediate

Feedback:

Individually recorded

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge using Zbrush , a 3d modelling package (Maya,Max,Blender etc.) ,Photoshop and Marmoset toolbag or Unreal engine. Fundamentals of Substance, Zbrush for Concept and Iteration

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

6 Weeks

Materials:

Substance Painter, Zbrush, 3D Modeling package (Maya, Max, Blender, etc) Photoshop, and Marmoset ToolBag or Unreal Engine

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded

Assignment:

Due each week. Expect to spend 10-20 hrs/wk viewing lectures, q&a, and assignment.

Skills Level:

Intermediate

Feedback:

Individually recorded

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge using Zbrush , a 3d modelling package (Maya,Max,Blender etc.) ,Photoshop and Marmoset toolbag or Unreal engine. Fundamentals of Substance, Zbrush for Concept and Iteration

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

6 Weeks

Materials:

Substance Painter, Zbrush, 3D Modeling package (Maya, Max, Blender, etc) Photoshop, and Marmoset ToolBag or Unreal Engine

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded

Assignment:

Due each week. Expect to spend 10-20 hrs/wk viewing lectures, q&a, and assignment.

Skills Level:

Intermediate

Feedback:

Individually recorded

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge using Zbrush , a 3d modelling package (Maya,Max,Blender etc.) ,Photoshop and Marmoset toolbag or Unreal engine. Fundamentals of Substance, Zbrush for Concept and Iteration

COURSE OVERVIEW

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

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The more you know, the better.

Week 1 | Painter Basics

Going over substance UI | Creating a new scene | Baking from high to low poly, to get the necessary maps. | Texturing in painter. Using generators, procedruals, brushes, particles etc. with mask to maintain a non destructive workflow. | Going over smart materials and how to create own. | Exporting textures and making own presets for exporting. | Rendering inside substance painter

Week 2 | PBR Fundamentals and Texturing

Week 3 | Texturing Cloths and Baking a face for texturing

Going over Uvs for cloths | Texturing Cloths | Going over Uvs for Face | Opening the high res sculpt in zbrush and going over how to bake a face with minimum bleeding in the bakes. | Extracting a cavity map in zbrush for the pore details. | Preparing it inside substance for texturing | Going over how to divide a character to maintain performance and save memory.

Week 4 | Texturing a Face in Painter

Going over principle of skin texturing | Demo on texturing a skin using painter.

Week 5 | Finishing the Face Textures

Detailing the skin albedo and adding specific details on it like mole, scars, tattoo,war paint etc. | Finalizing the Albedo | Creating the supporting maps inside substance : Gloss/Roughness, Translucency, Scatter, Detail weight map | Using the same knowledge to texture other parts of a human body

Week 6 | Presenting the Assets in Engine

Exporting the maps out of substance painter for either marmoset/unreal engine. | Setting up materials in Marmoset. | Setting up maretials in Unreal engine. | Getting some presentable images to showcase our textures

Character Texturing for Games in Substance

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Instructor

Your journey starts here

Jared Chavez

/Turtle Rock Studios

LECTURES BY Saurabh Jethani

Jared has been pursuing a love for CG characters from the moment he took his first class on Maya. He started out learning 3D at the University of New Mexico, and continued by receiving further insight by taking CGMA courses. He started out at Northrup Grumman working on VR training materials mostly focused on creating environments. In 2019 he made the move to AAA working with Turtle Rock Studios, where he currently resides as a Senior Character Artist working on the recently released title Back 4 Blood. Jared’s primary focuses are characters, creatures, and a passion for creating useful learning material to help others.

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Johnathan Boorman

It was actually really helpful to see Saurabh demonstrate mistakes and then correct himself during his videos. It helped me to realize things I should avoid but also made him relatable.

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Stephen Ytuarte

Saurabh is a really good instructor, I would take another class of his in a heartbeat. It’s his genuine love of learning different methods and citing sources that i like the most.You can tell hes going out and finding the best answers and sharing everything he’s picked up.

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Myoungjun Choi

I liked the range this course offered. Especially the q&a sessions went much further than the original course outline. Saurabh is very knowledgeable and a great instructor to learn from.

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