Tutorial: Barbarian - Xgen for Characters

Welcome to my latest Tutorial, Barbarian - Xgen for Characters.

This tutorial is an update of my older Xgen tutorial, with more advanced techniques and a much broader variety of different grooms. I will show you multiple techniques to help you achieve a believable groom for your characters.

In this tutorial, I will be going over my entire process when it comes to generating a believable groom for your character. The process is covered in-depth, with every step explained with narration, in real-time. 

There is a lot of content in this tutorial, but I have labeled the chapters in a way to make it easy for you to skip ahead or jump to the area which interests you most, without having to watch the entire process. I did this to make sure a beginner has all the information they need, or a more experienced artist can jump to the information they are seeking.

By the end of the tutorial, you should have the knowledge and techniques to apply realistic grooms to your own characters.

NOTE: To make sure this tutorial did not exceed a ridiculous amount of content, I do some tweaking of the grooms off camera. I always make sure to come back in the following chapter showing you the tweaks that were made to get the desired results. The foundation and every tool I use to generate the groom are recorded.

Chapters:

- Chapter01_Sculpting Proxy Hair and Generating Scalps

- Chapter02_Create final Scalps and Export

- Chapter03_Creating the hair cap

- Chapter04_Creating the PonyTail

- Chapter05_Hair Pass01

- Chapter06_Hair Pass02

- Chapter07_HairPass03

- Chapter08_Hair Pass04

- Chapter09_Hair Shader

- Chapter10_Eyebrows

- Chapter11_Eyelashes

- Chapter12_Shaders for Eyebrows and Eyelashes

- Chapter13_Nose and Ear Hair

- Chapter14_Beard Pass01

- Chapter15_Beard Pass02

- Chapter16_Beard Pass03

- Chapter17_Beard Pass04

- Chapter18_Adding Stubble

- Chapter19_Blending between the Hair and the Beard

- Chapter20_PeachFuzz

- Chapter21_PeachFuzz Shader

- Chapter22_Creating the Pelt

- Chapter23_Pelt Final Touches and Shaders

- Chapter24_Hand

- Chapter25_Body Hair01

- Chapter26_Body Hair02

Programs Used:

- Xgen

- Maya

- Arnold

- Zbrush

Thank you for your support and I hope you enjoy the tutorial.

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