Hair Creation for Games

A 6-week course where students learn to master the art of creating realtime AAA hair for games.

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Master the art of AAA hair

Creating hair can be a tedious and time consuming process till you see the end result. In this course, you will be taught a generalized pipeline for hair evolved from the years of experience working on AAA titles like Control, Ghost of Tsushima, Injustice 2, The Walking Dead, Layers of fear 2 to name a few. Right from collecting references to the end presentation, you will be guided step by step that will prepare you to confidently make your very own high quality hair for personal or professional practices.

You will be taken through the full process of planning your work, creating hairs in Xgen, baking the hairs into textures, creating a hair asset, and finally putting it into Unreal Engine. The class will contain both practical workflows and theoretical mindsets to help you master the skills necessary for real-time hair creation.

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

6 weeks

Materials:

Pure ref, Zbrush, Maya, 3Ds Max, Photoshop, Marmoset toolbag, Unreal Engine 4

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded Format

Assignment:

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

Skills Level:

Advanced

Feedback:

Pre-recorded

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of tools like Zbrush, Maya, Max, Photoshop, Unreal Engine 4, Marmoset Toolbag. Course Recommendations: Character Facial Sculpting, Character Texturing for Games in Substance

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

6 weeks

Materials:

Pure ref, Zbrush, Maya, 3Ds Max, Photoshop, Marmoset toolbag, Unreal Engine 4

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded Format

Assignment:

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

Skills Level:

Advanced

Feedback:

Pre-recorded

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of tools like Zbrush, Maya, Max, Photoshop, Unreal Engine 4, Marmoset Toolbag. Course Recommendations: Character Facial Sculpting, Character Texturing for Games in Substance

Course Format:

Standard

Duration:

6 weeks

Materials:

Pure ref, Zbrush, Maya, 3Ds Max, Photoshop, Marmoset toolbag, Unreal Engine 4

Lecture Type:

Pre-recorded Format

Assignment:

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

Skills Level:

Advanced

Feedback:

Pre-recorded

Q&A:

Once a week

Prerequisites:

Basic knowledge of tools like Zbrush, Maya, Max, Photoshop, Unreal Engine 4, Marmoset Toolbag. Course Recommendations: Character Facial Sculpting, Character Texturing for Games in Substance

COURSE OVERVIEW

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

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The more you know, the better.

Week 1 | Preparation stage

Introduction, overview of course, sorting out technical requirements, collecting references, Breakdown

Week 2 | Sculpt pass stage

What is a sculpt pass, Creating clumps, Creating a complete sculpt pass, Different quality of sculpt passes

Week 3 | Creating textures

Using Xgen, creating different clumps, rendering maps, final compilation

Week 4 | Card Placement Phase 1

Introducing zbrush for card placement, Creating clump pallette, Base layer

Week 5 | Card placement Phase 2

Primary & Secondary layer, setting forms and proportions

Week 6 | Finalizing Stage

Transition and flyoffs, adding personality, Importing into engine, tweaking shaders, lighting and presentation

Hair Creation for Games

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Instructor

Taking your skills to the next level

Naky Solanki

/Little Red Zombies

LECTURES BY Naky Solanki

Nakshatra a.k.a. Naky, started as freelance artist making collectibles when he was 17. Soon after, he got his first on site job at the age of 19 at Little Red Zombies where he became Character Artist for games. Today after industry experience of over 6 years he has worked on almost every title at LRZ like Sniper 3, Strange Brigade, Overkill's The Walking Dead, CONTROL, Ghost of Tsushima etc. During his professional career he also developed a taste for creating real time hair. Today after going through several iterations, he has come up with a pipeline that yields high quality and optimal real time hair results. This has been noticed by several AAA clients among the game industry and he is working with handful of them. Using mixture of traditional and modern techniques has benefited the overall department of real time alpha card hairs. He is also working on pushing hair creation for Next-generation games!

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STUDENT INTERVIEWS

Game Character Hair Creation Techniques

Interview with Calvin Verhoolen

Game Character Hair Creation Techniques

Interview with Calvin Verhoolen

Tips & Tricks on Hair for Games

Interview with Andrew Giovannini

Tips & Tricks on Hair for Games

Interview with Andrew Giovannini

Hair for Games

Interview with Greg Mourino

Hair for Games

Interview with Greg Mourino

Voluminous Hair: Tips and Tricks

Interview with Jeff Hindsbøl Hansen

Voluminous Hair: Tips and Tricks

Interview with Jeff Hindsbøl Hansen

Hair Production for Game Characters at CGMA

Interview with Dominique Gagné

Hair Production for Game Characters at CGMA

Interview with Dominique Gagné

WINTER TERM REGISTRATION

Oct 18, 2021 - Jan 31, 2022

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$599

COURSE BEGINS

January 28th

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Bartłomiej Dębiec

Previously I struggled terribly when I was supposed to make a hair asset. Now I confidently sculpt and lay haircards implementing gained knowledge in work environment.

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Diego Aguilar

Hair creation has been a breeze with Naky’s teachings, it makes sense, it’s easier to approach and I’m more eager to find new methods on a task that I used to avoid before this course.

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Khaldoun Jreisat Elias

He simplify a very hard and complicated subject (Hair for games) and makes it easy to understand and to apply, Amazing job by the instructor!

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