Katon Callaway – Videogame Character Creation

For those wanting to understand the game pipeline, this is for you.

Week 1- Create base mesh and begin initial sculpt.

• In week one, we break down our design and make our base mesh for the body and start to block in the forms in Zbrush.

Week 2- blocking in the rest of the character-

• In our second week, we will work on blocking in the rest of the characters clothes. The first week is the setup for this week, a solid base sculpt is our foundation for the rest of the character.

Week 3- Catch up Week

• I like to use the third week to take a breather and catch up on anything that we might need some extra time on. Also it is nice to go back and tweak anything before getting into details.

Week 4- Finishing the sculpt

• Now we should have all the base assets in place and need to finish our character sculpt. This can be a tough thing to do, but I will take you through my process on how I go about closing the sculpt out.

Week 5- Creating our low poly mesh

• There are many tools that have greatly sped up our low poly creation process, but it is crucial to understand why we have the edge loops that we do, and also you have to know where they are needed. In this week, we go over topology and creating it for our character.

Week 6- Creating UVs and also our normal and AO maps.

• In week 6, we talk about solid uv layout, and I then show you my workflow using xnormal on how I go about creating my normal and ao maps.

Week 7 – Texturing and Marmoset

• I show my texturing workflows, generally from polypaint to Photoshop, then finally into marmoset with everything together!