Cafg Lessons

Cafg Lessons

Course Overview

A quick look at what you’ll get

Lessons 70+

Total Duration 100+ hrs

Modules 9

Instructor J Hill

Character Art For Games

Follow along with instructor JHill as you create a high quality real-time character model and believable textures then bring it to life in Unreal Engine.

Introduction

All Downloads & Project Files

Links & Discounts

Tools & Techniques

Dynamic Modeling

Transpose Master

Planning Your Project

Starting Your Projects

Choosing a Concept

Project Directory

High Poly Modeling

The "High Poly"

Sculpting Leather

Sculpting Cloth

The Head

Proportions of the Face & Head

Facial Features

Blocking out The Head

"Finishing" The Head

Head Finishing Timelapse

The Real-Time Model

Making it Real-Time

Model Management

3 ways to Retopologize

UV Fundamentals

UV Mapping The Character

Texturing

Baking & Texturing

Baking the Head

Fixing the AO - Demo

The Texture Blockout

Texturing in Substance Painter

Texturing the Face

Unreal Engine

Getting In-Game

Creating an Unreal Project

Exporting Textures for Unreal

Unreal Materials

Creating Materials

The Chain - Tiling Models

Updating EVERYTHING!

Hair For Games

Hair for Games Overview

Rendering Hair Textures in Arnold

UE Hair Material Overview

Creating Hair for Games - Demo

Hair Modeling Demo - Raw Footage

Polish & Presentation

Polish & Presentation

Look Development

Rendering Images

High Quality Rendering

Publishing

Publishing Online

Turntable Video

The Final Presentation

Posting on ArtStation

Q&As

Class Group 1

Class Group 2

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 1

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 2

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 3

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 4

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 5

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 6

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 7

Class 2 Weekly Q&A 8

Class Group 3

Class 3 Weekly Q&A 1

Class 3 Weekly Q&A 2

Class 3 Weekly Q&A3

Class 3 Weekly Q&A4

Class 3 Weekly Q&A5

Class 3 Weekly Q&A6

Class 3 Weekly Q&A7

Class 3 Weekly Q&A8

Guest Speakers

Guest Speaker: Marco Plouffe

Guest Speaker: Renaud Galand

Guest Speaker: Şefki Ibrahim

Hair Workshop with Hazel Brown

Guest Speaker: Jared Chavez

Guest Speaker: Justin Holt

Guest Speaker: Hanno Hagedorn

Guest Speaker: Patrick 4D

Guest Speaker: Glauco Longhi

Guest Speaker: Jamir Blanco

Guest Speaker: Dan Crossland

Guest Speaker: Vimal Kerketta

Guest Speaker: Frank Tzeng

Guest Speaker: Chris Gillett

Guest Speaker: Colleen Larson

Guest Speaker: Gary Huang

Guest Speaker: Peter Zoppi

Guest Speaker: Alex Boatman

Guest Speaker: Amanda Irani

Guest Speaker: Pedro Varella

Group Reviews

Group 1

Group 2

Group Feedback - Week 1

Group Feedback - Week 2

Group Feedback - Week 3

Group Feedback - Week 4

Group Feedback - Week 5

Group Feedback - Week 6

Group Feedback - Week 7

Group Feedback - Week 8

Group 3

Group Feedback - Week 1

Group Feedback - Week 2

Group Feedback - Week 3

Group Feedback - Week 4

Group Feedback - Week 5

Group Feedback - Week 6

Group Feedback - Week 7

Group Feedback - Week 8

Bonus Videos

Hand Sculpting Demo

Livestreams

3/24/2025 10:18 AM PDT recording

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