Designing, Sculpting and Texturing Creatures for VFX -- with Ben Erdt and Sam Alicea 

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Flathead vs Deadeye on RU-vid: • Flathead Vs Deadeye
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Ben Erdt is a senior character artist at Blizzard Entertainment and Samuel Alicea is a senior texture artist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Ben and Sam joined the Outgang crew for a full breakdown of their latest collaboration, named Flathead vs Deadeye. This video is a full breakdown of their pipeline, from designing the creatures, to sculpting them using Zbrush, unwrapping them using multiple UDIMs, texturing them using Mari and finally, rendering them using Redshift.
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0:00:00 Introduction
0:15:16 Flathead vs Deadeye Project
0:28:20 Designing Flathead
0:39:20 Holistic Design
0:52:30 Designing Deadeye
0:59:20 Supporting Outgang
1:00:10 Retopology and High Poly
1:07:50 UVs/UDIMs
1:19:27 When to Stop Sculpting and Start Texturing
1:30:33 Texturing Strategy
1:43:31 LookDev
1:50:31 Texturing in Mari
2:19:00 Shaders
2:28:00 Compositing
2:38:00 Wrapping Things Up