Full 3D Game Asset Workflow Explained - FULL TUTORIAL

Ever wondered the full workflow for 3D assets?
Patricia Dobbins stops by Stylized Station to give an in-depth workshop on creating your first asset from start to finish. This will be a 5 step series, totaling 2 &1/2 hours long. Enjoy!

Check out Patricia's work here:

Concept art by Serg Tsvelykh

Enjoy the content? Feel free to help the channel on by supporting us on Patreon!

Get your free month of the 3D Coloring Book right here:

Follow me on all the socials:

Come join us on discord! We have the world's largest discord for sharing stylized art.

[DarkAutumnD]

People have it SO good these days lol. When I started out as a 3D model artist - Youtube was about 3 months old. There were literally NO tutorials on how to become a 3D model artist. The only way I could learn was to teach myself through trial and error, etc. Back then we didn't have things like Substance Painter and such.. We had to make all of the textures in Photoshop and constantly go back and forth between that and the 3D modelling software. That was 19 years ago and still going strong!

[ylmazguresen]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I learned so many stuff from this video. I am in University right now and want to be a 3D artist. This video really opened up my mind about the workflow and all the steps. Thank you so much for good content 🙏

[waltertorezanjunior]

Amazing tutorial! I've learned a lot from it, thank you Stylized Station and Patricia Dobbins for giving us such a great video! :)

[VicoSotto.]

You guys sure this is free?? This is actually better than most paid tutorials online. Hats off to Patricia Dobbins, this is a long and very well made and very informative video.

[ConraDargo]

I'm surprised to see that such a tightly packed UDIM is actually ok to use, especially by someone that's actually working in this business!? I would never dare to keep the UV shells _that_ close to one another, out of fear of textures and paints bleeding over, and with that many meshes! O_O

[mattkaiser]

Maya for blocking
ZBrush for sculpting
Maya for unwrapping
Substance Painter for texturing

[_TetKaneda]

Great contribution. Great tutorial. You have my like. Thank you so much. Greetings

[MarcSantana]

Thanks so much for sharing this knowledge

[Haerinaaaaa]

Learned a lot from this video. Thank you!

[Inxx]

The thing that you named "metal weird" that you don't know what it is: it's a leather shoulder armor piece :D

Awesome video thank you for sharing your workflow!

Edit: but that "top layers" magic at the end of step 4 is just wow. I would love to see a video tutorial on how to do that :D

[Glitch-Gremlin]

When you said around 6:44 that "Everything can be modeled from Pieces, it doesn't gotta all be from one square" does that mean when im doing Retopo, its best to tackle each part on its own and then just link them together? i will admit ive seen other people modeling stuff from a square extruding, Shrinking, expanding, moving and enfacing" and it can be EXTREMELY daunting to even think of tackling stuff when its done like that lol

[handlehaggler]

ive been stuck for 2 days trying to figure out what to do about stacked uvs. im using blender but the principle still remains. put them aside temporarily on the next udim grid. THANK YOU

[hamidrezasalami]

Hi. thanks for the tutorial. by softening the bevel edges meaning subdivision?

[xSplatteredx]

51:06 hm ok, I never had that problem with stacked uvs and for work stuff I basically stack uvs somewhere on every single asset.

[dragoneelyuu]

1:45:55 where can i find the link that lady talked about

[atomicshrimpFT]

Hi, can I ask you how you squared off the model for zBrush so perfectly? Did you just use insert edgeloop? I can just imagine it being a littlme more difficult because of the previous spacing of faces

[MrRidhun]

is a seprate material assigned to wood, metals etc?

[druvingame]

can i use concept art of other and make 3d model of it for my game?

[surendar]

In this substance painter polyfill is working or not?

[snowwarden]

step one learn sculpting(like i never did in college) step 2 learn substance painter(like i never did in college)