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AAA Game Character Creation Tutorial Part2

   August 13, 2025  Leave a Comment on AAA Game Character Creation Tutorial Part2 
AAA Character Creation, Retopology, Texturing, and Rendering - In-Depth Tutorial Course

Learn from a professional character artist in this in-depth tutorial course on AAA Character Creation, Retopology, Texturing, and Rendering. Follow along as we cover the entire process of creating high-quality game characters, including retopology, UV unwrapping, texture baking, texturing, hair card generation, placement, posing, and rendering in Marmoset Toolbag. 

Please note that modeling the high poly is covered in a separate tutorial course. (this course can be found on our store)

3DsMax, Blender, Substance Painter, and Marmoset Toolbag 4

During this course, you'll learn how to create high-quality 3D characters using various industry-standard software packages. Retopology and UV mapping will be carried out in 3DsMax.

However, the techniques used are universal and can be applied to other 3D modeling software as well. Baking will be done in Marmoset Toolbag, and texturing will be done in Substance Painter. We'll create a simple rig for posing with Actorcore Accurig, which we'll adjust in Blender. We'll generate hair cards in Blender and render the final model in Marmoset Toolbag 4, 

ZBrush will also be used for a few short segments, but it's not essential for this course.

By the end of this course, you'll have learned all the techniques necessary to create high-quality characters like those you see in the images and trailers. These techniques are universal and can be applied to almost any character.

  • 01-Exporting the Highpoly.mp4

  • 02-Retopologising the Head Part1.mp4

  • 03-Retopologising the Head Part2.mp4

  • 04-Retopologising the Shoes Part1.mp4

  • 05-Retopologising the Shoes Part2.mp4

  • 06-Retopo the Shoes Part3 (aligning instanced low polies).mp4

  • 07-Retopologising the Shoes.mp4

  • 08-Retopologising the Legs.mp4

  • 09-Retopologising the Legs Part2.mp4

  • 10-Retopologising the Legs Part3.mp4

  • 100-Fuzz map setup.mp4

  • 101-Quick tweaks and checking render.mp4

  • 102-Splitting the Substance Painter file.mp4

  • 103-Finishing the face Part01.mp4

  • 104-Finishing the face Part02.mp4

  • 105-Finishing the face Part03.mp4

  • 106-Replacing the gold material.mp4

  • 107-Finishing the arm material Part01.mp4

  • 108-Finishing the arm material Part02.mp4

  • 109-Finishing the arm material Part03.mp4

  • 11-Torso Retopo and Adjusting the High Poly.mp4

  • 110-Finishing the body material Part1.mp4

  • 111-Finishing the body material Part2.mp4

  • 112-Finishing the accesories materal Part01.mp4

  • 113-Finishing the accesories materal Part02.mp4

  • 114-Generating hair cards.mp4

  • 115-Finishing the Hair Cards and Baking.mp4

  • 116-Setting Up and Placing Hair Cards.mp4

  • 117-Placing the Cards and Albedo Map setup.mp4

  • 118-Placing the Medium Hair Cards.mp4

  • 119-Placing the Front Hair Cards part1.mp4

  • 12-Continuing Torso Retopolgy.mp4

  • 120-placing the Front Hair Cards Part2.mp4

  • 121-Placing the Front Hair Cards Part3.mp4

  • 122-Placing Fine Hair Cards Around the Ears.mp4

  • 123-Placing Flyaway Hair Cards.mp4

  • 124-Placing Blocking Cards for the Ponytail.mp4

  • 125-Editing and adding Baby Hairs to the Hair Card.mp4

  • 126-Placing medium Cards Around the Ponytail.mp4

  • 127-Placing Fine Breakup Hair Cards.mp4

  • 128-Finishing the Hair.mp4

  • 129-Final Polishing.mp4

  • 13-Finishing the Torso Retopology.mp4

  • 14-Retopologising the Hood.mp4

  • 15-Retoplogising the Arm and Glove.mp4

  • 16-Retopologising the Gloves Part2.mp4

  • 17-Retopologising the Mecha Arm.mp4

  • 18-Retopologising the Mech Arm Part2.mp4

  • 19-Retopologising the Mech Arm Part3 - Timelapse.mp4

  • 20-Pouch retopo (Narration at start and end).mp4

  • 21-Retopo the Belts.mp4

  • 22-Finishing the belts -Timelapse.mp4

  • 23-Loose cloth detail Retopo.mp4

  • 24-Finishing the Left Leg Retopo - Timelapse.mp4

  • 25-Finishing the Leg Retopo -Timelapse.mp4

  • 26-Finishing the Cloth Part1.mp4

  • 27-Finishing the Cloth Part2 - Timelapse.mp4

  • 28-Pauldron Retopo.mp4

  • 29-Cape Scarf Retopo.mp4

  • 30-Left Glove Retopo.mp4

  • 31-Arm Pouch Retopo.mp4

  • 32-Finishing the Arm Pouch.mp4

  • 33-Finishing the Mech Arm Part1.mp4

  • 34-Finishing the Mech Arm Retopo Part2 -Timelapse.mp4

  • 35-Finishing the Neck Retopo.mp4

  • 36-Merging the Neck and the Torso (Optional) -Timelapse.mp4

  • 37-Finishing the Retopo.mp4

  • 38-Retopology Final Chapter.mp4

  • 39-Low poly material setup.mp4

  • 40-Base Unwrapping Part1.mp4

  • 41-Base Unwrapping Part2.mp4

  • 42-Base Unwrapping Part3.mp4

  • 43-Base Unwrapping Part4.mp4

  • 44-Baking setup and test baking.mp4

  • 45-Lowpoly final polish.mp4

  • 46-Straightning UV Islands.mp4

  • 47-Packing UV's and baking.mp4

  • 48-Skin topology and preparing UV's.mp4

  • 49-Unwrapping the characters face.mp4

  • 50-Finalizing head UV's and baking.mp4

  • 51-Finishing pouch UV's and LowPoly.mp4

  • 52-Straightning the accesory UV's.mp4

  • 53-Straightning hand and remaining UV's.mp4

  • 54-Finishing straightning UV's.mp4

  • 55-Packing accesory UV's.mp4

  • 56-Creating baking groups.mp4

  • 57-Fixing smoothing groups and topology.mp4

  • 58-Finishing mech arm UV's.mp4

  • 59-Final topo fix and baking the arms.mp4

  • 60-Finalizing the low poly and importing into Blender.mp4

  • 60-Finishing the accesories and assembling the lowpoly.mp4

  • 61-Posing the character.mp4

  • 62-Fixing custom normals.mp4

  • 63-Adjusting the weight painting.mp4

  • 64-Fixing deformations with sculpting.mp4

  • 65-Posing the cape.mp4

  • 65-Posing the cape.mp4

  • 66-Blocking out Part1.mp4

  • 67-Blocking out Part2.mp4

  • 68-Blocking out Part3.mp4

  • 69-Body material block out.mp4

  • 70-Finishing block out.mp4

  • 71-Body material creation Part01.mp4

  • 72-Body material creation Part02.mp4

  • 73-Body material creation Part03.mp4

  • 74-Body material creation Part04.mp4

  • 75-Body material creation Part05.mp4

  • 76-Body material creation Part06.mp4

  • 77-Body material creation Part07.mp4

  • 78-Arm material creation Part01.mp4

  • 79-Arm material creation Part02.mp4

  • 80-Arm material creation Part03.mp4

  • 81-Arm material creation Part04.mp4

  • 82-Accessories material Part01.mp4

  • 83-Accessories material Part02.mp4

  • 84-Accessories material Part03.mp4

  • 85-Accessories material Part04.mp4

  • 86-Accessories material Part05.mp4

  • 87-Accessories material Part06.mp4

  • 88-Finishing our first texture pass.mp4

  • 89-Key light placement part01.mp4

  • 90-Lighting part02.mp4

  • 91-Eye setup Part01.mp4

  • 92-Eye setup Part02.mp4

  • 93-Eye setup Part03.mp4

  • 94-Eyelashes setup Part01.mp4

  • 95-Eyelashes setup Part02.mp4

  • 96-Eyebrows setup Part01.mp4

  • 97-Eyebrows setup Part02.mp4

  • 98-Eyebrows setup Part03.mp4

  • 99-Detail normal setup.mp4

  • BONUS-Zwarp Demonstration.mp4

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