Creating a Stylized Groom in Maya and XGen With Bhavika Bajpai

Creating a hair groom can be simple with the right workflow. See how a proxy tube geometry workflow using XGen in Maya can be fast and efficient: https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tut...

In this 3-hour workshop, Bhavika Bhajpai runs through a complete workflow, beginning with analyzing photographic references and explaining how to plan out the structure of a groom, and covering all the basics of XGen in Maya using a sphere example to get you started. Discover the XGen interface, how to create and move guides, how to set up clumps and cutoffs, what the basic XGen expressions are, and how to apply all your knowledge and techniques to a simple character model. You’ll see how to set up the tubes, how to ingest them into XGen, and then take a look at the XGen modifiers and maps that are needed to create the final hairstyle.

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