3D Hair Creation with Maya XGen

You will begin by knowing Juan Paulo, his professional training and how he entered the world of 3D. Then, he will tell you his main influences from different creative areas, such as conceptual design, science fiction or photography, among many others.

You will learn the basics and key components of any character's fur. You will analyze some reference photos with Juan Paulo to replicate the effect using 3D tools.

You will prepare the technical conditions to optimize the creative work in Maya (2018) and you will understand how to sculpt the hair to achieve the result you want. Next, you will optimize the software interface to start your work in XGen Interactive and learn about the main tools involved in XGen.

You will analyze with Juan Paulo some references to understand how the different scenes were assembled and the importance of following each step to have everything under control.

You will create your first hair description from scratch, configuring the initial parameters and then follow the process step by step by changing the hairstyle of the prototype to your liking. Then, you will raise the difficulty level a bit and apply modifiers working with multiple layers and tools.

Juan Paulo will give you a character that you can modify at ease (or create a completely new one) and you will review the UV's to see how to simplify your creation process through them.

You will create the hair description step by step, with total control over your goals and without fear of being wrong. Then you will apply several modifiers, learn to polish details and create several versions of your fur.

Then you will go to the lighting phase and render . You will learn to illuminate your character with HDR and Area lights and generate several renders of presentation from different angles.

Finally, you will import the images into Adobe Photoshop to make a color correction, add a background to enhance the character and set everything to send.