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Tarkan Sarim Patreon – Interactive Xgen IGS Female Short Hair Grooming

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Tarkan Sarim Patreon – Interactive Xgen IGS Female Short Hair Grooming
English | Size: 3.9GB
Category: Tutorial


I’ve been working in the field of digital grooming for vfx for many years and want to use the patreon platform to spread the knowledge I’ve gained which has been kept isolated in the in-house domain all this time. Follow me through the journey of digital hair and fur creation which is notoriously known as one of the most difficult and challenging disciplines in our industry and gain advanced insight to it’s workflows and procedures to eventually master this craft as well and gain foot in the industry where grooming artists are still a rarity. [Read more…]

Pluralsight – Maya Character and Environment FX with Bifrost and XGen

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Pluralsight – Maya Character and Environment FX with Bifrost and XGen
English | Size: 634.5MB
Category: Tutorial


Go on the journey of learning environment and character creation. In this course, Maya Character and Environment FX with Bifrost and XGen, you’ll learn techniques for building trees with Paint Fx, populating terrain with XGen and creating a creature using a liquid simulation. First, you’ll discover how to build a tree from scratch with Paint FX. Next, you’ll explore how to use expressions with XGen. Then, you’ll create a dripping mud monster using the Bifrost liquid simulation. Finally, you’ll learn how to render fog and using Arnold shaders. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to build a forest of your own and bring it alive with mud and water. Software required: Maya 2017.
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Digital Tutors – Creating Dynamic Fur with XGen in Maya

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Digital Tutors – Creating Dynamic Fur with XGen in Maya
English | Size: 1.7GB
Category: Tutorial


We’ll go over many of the tools found within XGen, but will mainly focus on the Groom and Spline features. In addition to creating fur, we’ll also learn how to create and convert texture maps into Ptex maps compatible with XGen as well as learn about adding secondary dynamic motion to our fur using modifiers. Finally, we’ll learn how to render our results using mental ray.
By the end of this Maya training, you’ll have the skills to create both moving and static fur on your own characters using XGen in Maya. [Read more…]