Character Facial Sculpting | CG Master Academy

Character Facial Sculpting

A 10-week course in which students will learn the anatomy of the head and what makes the portrait tell a story and makes it “alive”

OVERVIEW

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COURSE OVERVIEW

Learn to sculpt the human face

During this course, students will learn what makes the face look as it does—the underlying structures of the skull, muscles, fat tissue, and other structures such as glands which create and affect the forms of the face. Without a base mesh, but starting from scratch to get a better understanding of all the layers laid on top of each other. Once that knowledge is established, we will go deeper into what makes the portrait alive and tell a story.

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

10 weeks

Materials:

Zbrush, a graphics tablet with a digital pen — no mice allowed :)

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded

Assignment:

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

Skills Level:

Intermediate

Feedback:

Individual recordings

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Intermediate sculpting or drawing knowledge. Course Pre-req: Intro to Production Modeling, Zbrush for Concept & Iteration, and Anatomy for Production

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

10 weeks

Materials:

Zbrush, a graphics tablet with a digital pen — no mice allowed :)

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded

Assignment:

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

Skills Level:

Intermediate

Feedback:

Individual recordings

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Intermediate sculpting or drawing knowledge. Course Pre-req: Intro to Production Modeling, Zbrush for Concept & Iteration, and Anatomy for Production

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

10 weeks

Materials:

Zbrush, a graphics tablet with a digital pen — no mice allowed :)

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded

Assignment:

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

Skills Level:

Intermediate

Feedback:

Individual recordings

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Intermediate sculpting or drawing knowledge. Course Pre-req: Intro to Production Modeling, Zbrush for Concept & Iteration, and Anatomy for Production

COURSE OVERVIEW

Course trailer

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

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Week 1 | Skeleton

Introduction | Going over anatomical references of the skull and neck bones, and explaining the benefits of learning what is “under the hood”

Week 2 | Cartilage, Eyes, and Glands

Further examining anatomical references of cartilage, eyes, glands

Week 3 | Head & Neck Muscles and Fat Compartments

Adding muscles to the scene, and fat tissue

Week 4 | Skin

Building a generic face by laying the skin layer on top of the previously created layers

Week 5 | Portrait

To get a better understanding of portrait sculpting, one portrait won’t cut it, so we will create a new one.

Week 6 | Retopology

Retopology of the bust and projecting back the details onto the new topology mesh. Clean topology will enable more efficient detailing, and later posing and expressions.

Week 7 | Refinements and Detailing

Final touches and tweaks of the portrait

Week 8 | Polypaint

Polypainting the color map

Week 9 | Hair

Sculpting the hair (or fibermesh or xgen)

Week 10 | Expression Sculpting and Pose — The Final Image

For this lesson, retopology will have a big impact, as the head will be much easier to pose. Rendering different passes in Zbrush and bringing them into Photoshop for compositing into a final image.

Character Facial Sculpting

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Instructor

Bringing out the best in talent

Victor Maiorino Fernandes

/Framestore

LECTURES BY Dmitrij Leppee

Victor is a Senior Character Artist currently working at Framestore in London. Over the past few years, he was a character artist at Method Studios in Melbourne, Australia. Thereby, he was involved in several movies and TV series like Game of Thrones, Jumanij (1+2), IT 2 and Aquaman, with a focus on digital doubles and creatures.

In my free time I like to study more anatomy through drawing, watercolour and clay sculpture, a part of that I’m doing outdoor adventures.

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May 2, 2022 - Jul 18, 2022

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$998

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July 11th

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Kenny Oprins

By going over the fundamentals of the face and each layer that comes on top of it, this course has helped me get a greater understanding of the work methods, shape language, and observation skills for making faces.

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Jose Daniel Lince Marin

Helped gain more confidence when doing a facial sculpt, the knowledge gained from the course decreased the guessing when sculpting and when translating references to 3D

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Miria Kutzner

I attended a 3D school before but through this course I learned so much more technical stuff, it really helped that we had such an experienced instructor!

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Felix Benjamin Bader

Always available to answer questions thoroughly and in-depth. Seemed to really care about the issues students had. Honest feedback.

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