Creating a Game Character in Maya and Unity

• Introduction

• The Sketch

• The Concept

• Colour Up

• Concept Break out

• Setting up Maya

• Modelling our Body

• Setting up Image planes and the base mesh.

• Manual Image planes

• Refining the base mesh

• Adding Arms

• Adding Hands

• Creating the Face and Bevels

• Creating the Face and Bevels - Part 2

• Defining Face and Crown

• Defining Face and Crown - Part 2

• Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer

• Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer - Part 2

• Making changes to the head with the lattice deformer - Part 3

• Creating the Leg and Shin Guards

• Creating the Leg and Shin Guards - Part 2

• Finishing the Boots

• Adding the Trouser Folds

• Adding the Trouser Folds - Part 2

• Adding the Trouser Belt

• Now we tackle the Armour

• Now we tackle the Armour part 2

• Armour part 2

• Creating Chain Mail

• Shape the Armour using Lattice Deformer

• Refining the Arms

• Refining the Hands

• Using Transfer Maps tips and tricks

• Transfer Maps part 2

• Importing our model to ZBrush quick tips

• Using ZBrush with Maya quicker workflows

• Back to Maya refining the Head

• Back to Maya refining the Head - Part 2

• More head refining

• More head refining - Part 2

• Creating a basic ear

• Ear part 2

• Adding our Ear to the Head

• Prepare our model for UV Unwrapping

• Quick dip back to ZBrush tips and tricks

• Prepare our model for UV Unwrapping part 2

• UV Map for Leg and Knee

• UV Map for Trousers

• Testing your UV with Custom Checker Maps

• UV Unwrap of body

• UV Unwrap of body - Part2

• Head UV Unwrap

• Thinking about the hair

• Tips on Hair

• Modelling the Hair

• Resculpting Hair

• Final Hair UVs

• Final Hair UVs part 2

• Creating the Crown

• UV Checking once again using custom Maps

• Finishing UVs

• Understanding UV sets

• Understanding UV sets - Part 2

• Using transfer maps to tranfer high res details

• Using transfer maps to tranfer high res details - Part 2

• Creating a Tileable Chainmail patch

• Chainmail Pattern

• Chainmail Pattern - Part 2

• Finishing our chain mail

• Forearms

• Quick Colour part 1

• Quick Colour part 2

• Creating the Face Texture

• Speed texturing techniques

• Creating Normal Maps

• Coming back to the hair for final tweaks

• Coming back to the hair for final tweaks - Part 2

• How to create a simple specular map

• Creating a bump map

• Adding Transparency

• Model cleanup

• Lets create a sword

• Lets create a sword - Part 2

• Parenting groups

• Animation Joints and Smooth Binding

• Robot rig and bind - A Quick lesson

• Set up and scene cleanup

• Clean Up part 2

• Model adjustments for optimal rig bind

• Model adjustments for optimal rig bind - Part 2

• Creating a Basic Rig

• Creating a Basic Rig - Part 2

• Binding our Rig to our Geometry - Smooth Bind

• Adding Skin Weights

• Adding IK handles to our rig

• IK Solvers

• Foot setup

• Animation Controllers

• Creating an aim constraint

• Our FInal rig

• Final foot controller

• Double checking model

• Unity set up and first run

• Direct import from Maya

• Importing an animated model

• FBX Import

• End of Course Quiz, Quiz!

• BONUS LECTURE