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Artefact VFX

I'm a professional VFX Artist and CG Supervisor who has worked on films such as Godzilla X Kong, Rings of Power, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Ant Man & the Wasp, Deadpool 2, and Black Panther. I'll be sharing tutorials, education and walk throughs focused on character and creature design, hard surface vehicles and weapons, procedural modeling in Houdini and many other topics.

This channel will cover 3D modeling, sculpting, texture, groom, lookdev and other disciplines using Maya, Zbrush, Houdini, Mari, and Substance Designer.


Artefact VFX
In this video we focus on retopology where we create an organized mesh that can be used for uv layout, texture, rigging and other departments. We'll start by decimating our sculpt in ZBrush using decimation master and then sending this to Maya for use as a live object in quad draw. Future videos will go over texture, groom, lookdev and many other subjects. Full res images: https://artefactvfx.com/personal-work/kyka/ Mentorship Workshops: https://artefactvfx.com/workshops/
Kyka Character Design Series - Retopology
Mech built using procedural workflow in #maya ,#mash and #arnold #characterart #zbrush #charactercreation #art #characterdesign #houdini #mech #3d
Procedural Mech
In this first video of the series we'll develop a pencil sketch into a fully realized concept art image that can be used to create the character in 3d for film VFX. In the next part we'll continue using Maya, Mari, Zbrush and Houdini to fully build the character. We'll also render using RenderMan in Solaris. I'll also be using the excellent drawing tablets from Xencelabs: • https://www.xencelabs.com/products/pen-tablet-series • https://www.xencelabs.com/products/pen-display-16 @Xencelabs #conceptart #photoshop #creaturedesign #characterart #midjourney #alien #drawing #drawingtutorial #design #digitalart #xencelabs #createwhatyoudream #pentabletmediumbundle
Calaris Creature Design Tutorial with Xencelabs Part 001 - Concept Art
This is a quick timelapse showing the creation of fur in Houdini and a basic rendering setup using Solaris and Pixar RenderMan XPU with CPU and GPU support. I cover some tricky aspects like keeping guide count down, making the hairgen look more natural and coloring the hair using the displayColor attribute. Key concepts covered: • How to create fur or hair on a basic object • How to sculpt guides • Improving the hairgen output by varying length and adding clumping • Coloring fur using noise • Importing the fur into Solaris • Creating basic shaders and using the displayColor attribute • Viewing the render in Copernicus and outputting a png file to disk 00:00:42 - sculpting guides 00:02:43 - coloring with noise 00:06:45 - Solaris & RenderMan #houdini #renderman #solaris #copernicus #3d #hair #fur #lookdev #modeling #3dmodeling #XPU
Quick Guide to Creating Fur in Houdini, Solaris & RenderMan
Very fast demo showing the basics of creating fur in Houdini and rendering in RenderMan using XPU. Full tutorial here: https://youtu.be/q6CYD0A1F2Q?si=KutDm8SVCaMzsFJy #3d #houdini #renderman #vfx #solaris #xpu #modeling #fur #3dmodeling #lookdev #groom
Fur in Houdini & RenderMan XPU
Timelapse of the sculpting work on Kyka, 3d character, creature design using ZBrush and Maya
ZBrush Sculpting Timelapse - Kyka Character Design #zbrush #3d #charactercreation #sculpting
Photobashing a concept for a 3d character
Calaris Creature Concept Art Photobashing
This is a Character and Creature Design Tutorial Series which gives an in depth look at the creation of Kyka, a 3d character for film. In Modeling Part 002 we add more detail in zbrush and continue developing the likeness and features. Future videos will go over texture, groom, lookdev and many other subjects For full res images: https://artefactvfx.com/personal-work/kyka/ Mentorship Workshops: https://artefactvfx.com/workshops/
Kyka Character Design Series - Model Part 002
This is a Character and Creature Design Tutorial Series which gives an in depth look at the creation of Kyka, a 3d character for film. Modeling Part 01 covers the initial blocking process in Maya as well as creating a likeness using dynamesh in ZBrush. Future videos will go over detail modeling, texture, groom, lookdev and many other subjects For full res images: https://artefactvfx.com/personal-work/kyka/ Mentorship Workshops: https://artefactvfx.com/workshops/ 00:01:50 Maya Scene Setup 00:03:32 Scale Check 00:05:44 Creating A Concept Art Camera 00:07:59 Model Blocking 00:15:05 ZBrush Setup 00:17:45 ZBrush Blocking 00:36:41 Adding The Ear 00:43:23 Preparing for Maya 00:49:25 ZRemesher 00:56:40 Maya Refinement 01:03:41 Feature Lines in Photoshop 01:07:42 Using Feature Lines in Maya 01:16:25 Adding Eye Geometry
Kyka Character Design Series - Model Part 001
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