Game Character Creation Series: Kila

Over the course of this extremely in-depth series, you'll learn the techniques and theory behind creating a stylized, high quality female character for modern games. Focused on traditional poly-modeling, rather then digital sculpting techniques, this series from veteran artist Antony Ward, will help you build a solid foundation and a true understanding of the character creation process.

Posts in this series

Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 1 – High Resolution Modeling
Today we're extremely excited to welcome veteran 3D artist, character modeler and author, Antony Ward to the site as we launch an amazing new software...
Antony Ward
30 May 2013
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 2 – Low Resolution Modeling
It won`t be long before the next generation of consoles land in our living rooms. Each will come with a promise of more memory, superior processing power and...
Antony Ward
28 Jun 2013
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 3 – UV Mapping
Unless it’s destined to be a sculpture, a model without color will always be just a flat, lifeless collection of polygons and vertices. Adding color, even at...
Antony Ward
30 Jul 2013
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 4 - Texture Baking & Building
We are now at the fourth part of the Game Character Creation Series and here you will finally begin to breathe some life into Kila and finalize the main game...
Antony Ward
30 Sep 2013
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 5 - Skeleton Building and Binding
Building and texturing a model could be the end of the journey for most game assets. If you're creating artwork for the environment, props or essentially...
Antony Ward
31 Oct 2013
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 6 - Basic Character Rigging
Adding a skeleton to a model is a great way to make a once static pile of polygons more dynamic. As the skeleton moves and rotates the model deforms with it,...
Antony Ward
29 Nov 2013
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 7 – Facial Rigging with Joints
When it comes to animation, the ability to move and pose your character is essential when portraying an action or emotion. Body movement is one thing, but...
Antony Ward
29 Jan 2014
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 8 - Rigging with Blend Shapes
In Part 7 of the Game Character Creation Series we introduced facial animation to Kila using a joint base system. This opened up the possibility for her to...
Antony Ward
21 Feb 2014
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 9 - Hair Rigging
In this part of the Game Character Creation Series we will investigate a number of ways to bring Kila's hair to life.
Antony Ward
28 Mar 2014
Design & Illustration
Game Character Creation Series: Kila Chapter 10 - Level of Detail Variations
Learn how to create LODs in the conclusion of Antony Ward's Game Character Creation series.
Antony Ward
30 Apr 2014
Design & Illustration