My goal is to eventually become a character artist, but in my local area most of the available openings (that don't require 5 years of exp) are in env art. This guy seems very knowledgeable, and I look forward to it. My next course is a gnomon course called How to make a creature with character. I'd recommend it, as it's teaching me things i've never known. It's teaching unreal and how to make foliage in games. Regardless, this course is great, although the video a bitch choppy at times. I know you did say character art, but in the PM i sent you i've kept you posted with what each course has taught me and i've made on the side for my characters. Otherwise, the principles learned there I still use.Īnd currently, I am on a course called Vegetation and plants for games.

Amazing course, only downside is he didn't upload very good quality videos, and his version and my version were slightly different (mine newer) and I found a lot of the hooks he used didn't work anymore in newer substance. It was called Fundamentals of Substance for environment art. Then I took a substance designer course to help in the creation of my own materials. It felt incredibly simple too, but I guess it is course #2 on the path, so first year students would take it. The instructor wasn't available as these videos are old, and without the feedback I do not recommend this course. First one I took was intro to production modeling and I personally don't recommend it. Again, see your PM for examples and timestamps. So I decided to look into prop/env courses while I practiced my character art on the side. It was at this point I started to realize that maybe i'm quite far from getting a job as a character artist (4-6 months in, only have 1-1.5 years to get a job ideally), and everything I read online says you don't just 'start' as a character artist. Learning substance immediately boosted my texturing, as opposed to just using polypaint in zbrush. While I didn't particularly stick with stylized models, this was a very indepth, non spedup course on how to learn maya and substance. I searched around for an all encompassing maya course, and found - This guy made a 50+ hour course (I think) on maya, substance, mudbox (I just used zbrush). That said, it is likely the most recommended starting location on this subreddit, so I won't argue with that.Īfter this, I learned Maya and substance are part of the pipeline (I use maya for retopologizing and UVs, and substance for texturing). It is a great bit of information, but most of the videos are sped up and that made it difficult for a complete zbrush beginner. I first took pavlovich's ideation series (or the 3 part series that preceded it).

I also PM'd you each model i've made at each step of the way, so you can see how far i've progressed so far in my ~1year of learning.

Character modeling zbrush tutorials