I created Jinx in 3D - Zbrush to Unreal Engine Breakdown

[@mrnunez3D]

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[@DefaultDanielSGaming]

now it's time for you to prepare making the 3rd season

[@mrnunez3D]

I should hey !

[@joseph4445]

What on earth?? As a 3D student meddling with creating models, rigging, texturing in substance, and trying to put them into UE5, this video is a goldmine for me. Thank you so much!

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm so glad you found the video helpful! All the luck!

[@nancyvandermeer4480]

same here! especially the unreal engine part of things

[@dipakkalita3701]

​@@nancyvandermeer4480😢😮😮😅

[@mateocosta3d]

This is great! I'm just right now making a character with a similar pipeline and style and this will help me a lot. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm so glad to hear that! It's awesome that you're working on a character with a similar style. Best of luck with your project!

[@alfredobaro992]

Woah! Thanks for this very comprehensive breakdown! So cool to peek behind your shoulders and inside your brain throughout the process

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks Alfredo! Just keep in mind, peeking inside my brain might require a hard hat and some popcorn :P

[@llxxviaa]

Your model is so insanely accurate it’s amazing, would love to see you attempt a facial rig and animation in the future!

[@mrnunez3D]

I really appreciate your kind words! It means a lot to me. Facial rigging and animation is definitely on my radar :)

[@artofjhill]

Epic work and incredible video man! 🔥

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks, dude! Stoked you liked the video!

[@FynnGB]

That was great! Thanks so much for going into such detail with the texturing

[@mrnunez3D]

You are welcome! The texture is crucial for this style , more than the final render I would say

[@alejandroamatp]

I ended the video and due to the quality (Edition and content-wise) I thought i was watching a 1-10 Million views video. Surprised to see that not only are you a "small" channel but that you are answering all comments. I am really impressed. With the high quality content and the way its delivered. Congratulations. I work together with technical artists in the computer vision sector and I will definetely send them this and set it as the standard they need to achieve😂😂😂. Again, Congratulations. Amazing work

[@mrnunez3D]

Wow, thanks Alejandro! Yeah hopefully YT keep pushing my content. Thanks for sharing :)

[@Denns300]

This tutorial is pure bliss! great job! and thanks!

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm so glad you found the tutorial helpful! Your support means a lot!

[@x0ru_Art]

Excellent breakdown. Thank you for sharing!

[@mrnunez3D]

Glad it was helpful!

[@junechevalier]

Looks so good brother! Can’t wait for season 2 :D

[@mrnunez3D]

Same here!

[@marikosusie]

Amazing breakdown ! You have amazing artistic talent and observation talent as well! I am impressed at how well you captured the Arcane style, best Jinx fanart I've seen! 👏

[@mrnunez3D]

I truly appreciate your kind words! It means a lot to hear that my artistic efforts resonated with you, especially for such an iconic character!

[@SeculiarSamii]

Holy this entire process was awesome to watch thank you for sharing your amazing model!! You captured the style so well!

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank you!

[@Artem3Dprinting]

Epic work. Thanks for showing all the process. That was so much useful information for me

[@mrnunez3D]

Very welcome!

[@j1nxxj9]

LOVE seeing stuff like this! Such a high quality breakdown simplified just enough to fit in a youtube video. Your model looks amazing, you replicated the textures PERFECTLY! :)

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks! I tried to replicate the textures perfectly, but I may or may not have sacrificed a few pixels in the process. 😄

[@artildawn]

Props for making this and respect for sharing it.

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks man :)

[@GoRd-o9t]

Man im at 20 m and already got 10 ads still this is the closest jinx sculpt I've ever seen

[@mrnunez3D]

Wow, that’s crazy to hear! Glad you’re enjoying the video!

[@AustinThomasFilms]

This is so interesting, thanks for sharing your entire process! You are extremely talented.

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank for the support man!

[@LaCloacaDelGame]

Que gran artista! Gracias por enseñarnos todo éste proceso. Precioso , te ha quedado un proyecto de 10

[@mrnunez3D]

jo, muchas gracias!

[@notevennero]

great video, beautiful work

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm glad you like it

[@The-Qwertyuiop123]

Love it! Thank you for sharing your process!

[@mrnunez3D]

You are so welcome!

[@Dopamine_Storm]

Thank you my friend ❤ video is perfect. I will use it to my work:)

[@mrnunez3D]

You're welcome 😊

[@Farline182]

Thank you for sharing, really amazing breakdown

[@mrnunez3D]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@denixinww]

noooo que nivel, me encanto el video gracias por compartir tu conocimiento, eres un grande, saludos desde Bolivia

[@mrnunez3D]

¡Muchísimas gracias por tus palabras!

[@animarch3D]

Bro this is too good. SUBBED.

[@mrnunez3D]

Yo, thanks for the sub, bro! Glad you liked it!

[@robertomortera2558]

It's incredibly awesome, I love it!

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks man

[@tobysceptiman7058]

Thank you very much for this video! Next year I have to do something like this as the final test of my university before graduating. 🎉

[@mrnunez3D]

Thx, All the luck with the final project !

[@tartiflette1234]

Amazing, I WANT TO DO THAT... and i will eventually 💪🙏 and great tutorial an walkthrough, thanks a lot man

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks , glad you find it useful !

[@ShykeProdz]

Just. EPIC . WOW !!! Like the original one

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks! I wouldnt say is like the original one, but I think for a realtime aproximation is good. There are so many limitations in UE

[@Eu_Claire]

So Good... thank you for the breakdown..😍😍😍😍

[@mrnunez3D]

Thabks you

[@fgrimes1946]

Bruh how can i be like you this is just insanely amazing

[@mrnunez3D]

Just remember, it takes a lot of coffee to get here! 😂

[@meyebelcs3D]

your work is amazing

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks !

[@cevatakdemir9800]

Great breakdown. thanks man !

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@xpea16]

Looks perfect !

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm glad you think so!

[@dean7581]

Very nice tutorial and a great output! Just FYI though, in movie render queue, turning on "high resolution" doesn't do anything when the tile count is set to 1. The point is to break up a render into smaller pieces so that you can handle a 4k output for example by rendering 1080 at a time.

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks for the tip!

[@marcuscolello]

This is awesome!

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm glad you think so!

[@IMB1999]

Thank you so much. Nice work. ❤

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the content.

[@moondayyyyy]

This is the most detailed breakdown I've seen and the observation that was done was amazing! I've been dying to find this kind of reference for months even years and it will definitely help me a lot. Thank you so much for sharing! Though, may I know if the retopology was done manually or did you zremeshed most parts if not all? (since the video jumped from sculpting to texturing immediately)

[@mrnunez3D]

Most of it is Zremesher to be honest. Just for the body I re-used a basemesh. The only "manual" areas where the small hard-surface elements with the Zmodeler

[@SynonymArts]

Wow, Thanks for the awesome breakdown tutorial! This comes at the right time. I'm just done with the texturing and I'm having a hard time learning UE.👍🙏

[@mrnunez3D]

You are welcome! I hope it helps for your Unreal set up ;)

[@SynonymArts]

really nice artwork and awesome Art skills BTW:)

[@mrnunez3D]

@@SynonymArts thanks :D

[@SynonymArts]

@@mrnunez3D I have a problem with an imported texture in UE5. It goes zigzaggy. Do you know how to fix it?

[@mrnunez3D]

@@SynonymArts never got the zigzag issue but maybe be related to 2 issues: - Check the compression settings on the texture - Enable virtual textures on your project Hope it helps

[@Hectorespinozadesigns]

nice Video Thank you!

[@mrnunez3D]

Glad you liked it!

[@AliciuMihnea]

amazing tutorial, really!

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks a bunch!

[@zadarbuthelezi7159]

Great video, this gave me so many tips, one thing id like to know is how you painted multiple colors on one layer?

[@mrnunez3D]

mmm...on a paint layer you just paint. In fact this was great since I could mix them better

[@KRGraphicsCG]

This is an incredible model and I like your process. I'm surprised you don't use SculptrisPro for characters and heads... I will also try out your method of blocking out the base body

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the model and my process. I don't usually use ScuptisPro, it creates too many artifacts due to the subdivision factor

[@josegatica7216]

Awesome!! one question, did you make the uv maps in zbrush or in another program? and if so did you use udims or not?

[@mrnunez3D]

So I do the UV cuts in zbrush using the UV by Polygroups. Then in RizomUVs I pack them ;)

[@GeometryEX-hp9zs]

In the traditional process, animation, binding, controller and other work will be completed in software such as Maya, 3d maxs, blender, C4D, etc. The advantage of this is that the game engine finally receives an animated model with a complete binding. There is no need to perform animation operations inside the game engine. I noticed that the game engine actually has no way to make more physical effects, or the current UE5 controller can only be used for viewing. If you use it to edit animations, you will encounter many difficulties. In the traditional process, hair can execute linear bones to achieve physical characteristics. I noticed that the bones of the braids in this project are actually too few. If you want to make flowing hair, you need to do a lot of work. At least these tasks will not be completed in the game engine, or at least to complete a perfectly bound model, but this requires a lot of editing work. Because it is necessary to deal with different bone systems, I think the work of IK and FK is really not suitable for completion in UE5, and the controller of UE5 can only complete the basic work. And the binding work of this project is actually only partially completed. The complete binding process requires the production of different controllers to control the model. This also causes problems with custom animations. That is to say, if you want to make animations other than those free skeletal animations, you still need to roll back to Maya to build a controller system. This work obviously cannot be omitted. This workflow is only partially accelerated, but it does not mean it is completely complete.

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks for the detailed feedback :)

[@GeometryEX-hp9zs]

@@mrnunez3D I noticed that UE5's controllers are actually only FK mode. This actually creates some problems. If you need to edit the animation again in the game engine. Obviously this will be difficult. The best animations require about 3 sets of bone systems to be mixed and applied. Most of the time, you don't need to edit the animation again in the game engine. Unless you need to edit or change details, you need to do this. The FK bone system actually causes some difficulties, because to animate characters, you will need an IK system. FK can only help you pose, but animation is another level. In any case, it requires a lot of editing work. I understand why you do this, but you actually get a model with a bone rig but no controllers, which makes it difficult to animate. Although this does make the video faster. But it is obviously very limited. I think you probably unwrapped the UVs in maya. The topology work can be done in zbrush.

[@erickcrm]

Very impressive

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks :D

[@Skylenqt]

Hi! I love the result so far. How you made the handpaint texture interact with the lights? usually the handpaint models are unlit, you don't need normal map in order to have your details on the mesh?

[@mrnunez3D]

Exactly I don’t want the normal map to emphasise details but the oposite, get the surface as flat as possible and just play with the direct lights and ambient light. Also in the textures as you see I painted some cast shadows and baked the AO. So inside UE the major funciona form the lights is just give some color tint/intensity

[@ucviet8932]

Best tutorial

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@ivanjovanovic4486]

Awesome!

[@mrnunez3D]

I'm glad you think so!

[@juliantuu02]

Increíble trabajo! ¿Hay alguna forma de descargar tu modelo? Me encantaría hacer renders con el.

[@mrnunez3D]

¡Muchas gracias! Actualmente no lo tengo planeado

[@jovilee1961]

Thank U for sharing💯

[@mrnunez3D]

My pleasure!

[@ALEX_TK8]

Thank you very much! How did you get the diffuse channel?

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks. Do you mean how I painted it?

[@il_Deus]

Excellent work. I wanted to know if you plan to upload the model somewhere? I would be very happy to rig and animate your model. Especially if the textures are specially for Unreal Engine, it should be excellent.

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate your interest in the model. Currently I dont have any plans on it

[@Tawbzz]

amazing !

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank you!

[@dylanswint1271]

I love this! Working on a character in a similar fashion right now. I'm curious though, what were your final polycounts, and did you ever do any retopology? Or did you just do auto UV's straight out of Zbrush into substance?

[@mrnunez3D]

Yes of course! Most of the items are zremeshed early on so I could sculpt them. Others created using Zmodeler as I explained on the video...very simple process. Before SP all was already topologized

[@dylanswint1271]

@@mrnunez3D That's awesome! So did you bake high to low, or just bake all meshes off of themselves? Thank you for your reply :) You made an amazing work of art.

[@mrnunez3D]

@@dylanswint1271 high to low. I did 2 separated FBX exports with each

[@dylanswint1271]

​@@mrnunez3D beautiful. Thanks! I greatly appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. Your approach to character art honestly seems innovative, in the sense that all of the preexisting discourse steers everyone towards manual retopologization. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with manual retopo, it's necessary, but I think the industry will gradually gravitate towards faster workflows like Zremesher as hardware can easily handle higher polycounts.

[@peruvianpuffpepper904]

is there maybe a full length version of this?

[@mrnunez3D]

Im afraid not

[@revertfpv2928]

Amazing work, but did you use high poly mesh as a in final animation? I hope not

[@mrnunez3D]

Ofc not, I exported the lv1 which was zremeshed in advance

[@Arthur-nb7ph]

Amazing breakdown ! What would you recommend knowing that they don't really use ZBrush but make the character with Maya ?

[@mrnunez3D]

I think either option is fine since at the end what you get is a topologized character :). I still think when it comes to look for the character appeal is way faster in Zbrush…..very surprised you mention they don’t use Zbrush as a starting point tbh.

[@Arthur-nb7ph]

@@mrnunez3D I was also surprised but that's the answer gave by the lead character from Fortiche, that's why I am mentionning it.

[@hanson251985]

In UE5 you can use cc control rig plugin from Reallusion ;)

[@mrnunez3D]

Yeap I could, but I wanted to experiment with the Modular Control Rig for this one :) Was on my to do list for a while

[@Orijinezzz]

Great video ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@mrnunez3D]

Thank you :)

[@sergigs_artist]

Awesome :D

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks! 😄

[@suizenjiful]

非常に素晴らしい動画。高評価押しとくよ

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks you! :D

[@lifewithmase]

We need this as a mod for BG3. This and a gatling mode.

[@mrnunez3D]

A mod like that would definitely spice up the gameplay in BG3.

[@johnronald5960]

Video Tutorial is awesome ❤ and what and where to get that radial menu

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks! You can find the radial menu info here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKG0hYioe8eSjJI

[@AlkinRS]

Did you skip over Lowpoly creation, UV unwrapping and mapping, and shader assignment? That needs to be done before taking it into substance right?

[@mrnunez3D]

Didnt skip anything. I decided to put it out of the video since was adding no value. Also is too obvious that is a lowpoly with UVs really...

[@AlkinRS]

@@mrnunez3D Yeah that makes sense, it's quite a long process to document! Good UVing is a very valuable skill though that people should put effort into, and a lot of people don't know that you can add different shaders to meshes to have them as separate groups in substance.

[@AlkinRS]

@@mrnunez3D Also I was half wondering if you'd found a way to do it easily straight from Zbrush. What's your go to program for Lowpoly and UV's? Maya?

[@mrnunez3D]

@@AlkinRS UVs was in fact the fastest part of the process, I user RizomUVs and makes the job pretty easy. I probably should make a video just on that now you mention

[@mrnunez3D]

@@AlkinRS So in a normal job I would always use 3DsMax for lowpoly creation, since there is a poly budget to meet. In this case since I didn't care about the polycount I just zremeshed most of it, so level 1 is exactly what is exported from Zb. For UVs, RizomUVs all the way

[@diastleu274]

that textures might be baked with lights and shadow

[@mrnunez3D]

Exactly

[@urekmazino3509]

I would be making her do many things that Riot would not like

[@Kostyvv]

When exporting between zbrush to substance ur u using the high poly, or are u retopo and uv mapping it before u move to substance

[@mrnunez3D]

Before starting any detailing process I retopo or zremesher all of it, so I already hold both low and high poly in Zbrush. Before SP I just export 2 FBX: The lv1 (lowpoly) and the High Poly

[@Orijinezzz]

Hey, sorry can you tell me what is the format to export Zbrush to substance and how do you have assigned the outfit on the character?

[@mrnunez3D]

The character is exported and loaded in FBX. To assign, I did that in maya by just selecting the meshes and apply a material....very fast, you can use any software really

[@Orijinezzz]

@@mrnunez3D really thank you

[@arttrixs8049]

I observed that u are using some sort of quick access (circular) menu in Unreal, so can u help me understand what it is and how can i also use it. amazing work by the way. 😉😉

[@mrnunez3D]

Is called AutoHotPie. I have a video on my channel about it ;)

[@arttrixs8049]

@@mrnunez3D Ok i will check that out , Thank your :)

[@xxstatic3410]

Will you ever make this downloadable (for free) I’m dying to add this to VRChat!

[@mrnunez3D]

Need to think about that

[@Ashimilation]

@@mrnunez3D pleaseee it would be amazing!! as a 3D animator/render artist who mostly cant model arcane style humans at all, even tho working with the Fortnite model of Jinx for art has been good enough, it definitely isnt nearly as accurate as the one in this vid, and I would love to try and mimmick the shows animation style with a much more accurate model than whats publicly available!!

[@neroun1424]

Спасибо, очень круто

[@mrnunez3D]

Klacccc

[@sachinsherry8175]

Way too much sweat brother but it looks soo good 🔥🔥🔥✨

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks!

[@josuemartinez9688]

Did you retopo before substance right? I don't see the step

[@mrnunez3D]

Zremeshed most of the items yeap.

[@fsw-m4l]

太酷了，朋友！

[@mrnunez3D]

谢谢你的支持！很高兴你喜欢这个视频！

[@mishanka5x]

Чувак, ты крутой

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks!

[@melancholy652]

how did u add this pie (ring) menu in substance painter ?

[@mrnunez3D]

With AutoHotPie. I have a video on my channel about Radial Menus explaining everything

[@mikkelmelby]

10/10

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks for the perfect score! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@phuvo820]

how you make radial menu in substance ,pls teach me

[@mrnunez3D]

Check my channel. I have a video about that ;)

[@izeta3d]

Please make one of these for overwatch style.

[@mrnunez3D]

Any character/skin recommendation?

[@Stephchenko]

Is it possible to download or buy this model from you?

[@mrnunez3D]

Nothing yet set up

[@Richiedee18]

could you please do the texturing process in blender in another tutorial?

[@mrnunez3D]

Sorry I am not experience with Blender texturing tools. SP is too good to try anything else :P

[@Richiedee18]

@@mrnunez3D okay.

[@nastygroyal2811]

Do you know where to get the model from?

[@mrnunez3D]

What do you mean ?

[@nastygroyal2811]

@mrnunez3D Oh Sorry! I meant like is there a place where I can download this model or use it?

[@mrnunez3D]

@@nastygroyal2811 Nothing yet

[@frozzytango9927]

Sad you skipped the retopology

[@mrnunez3D]

I did most items with Zremesher and for the body I wrapped on a base. The process is too repetitive and straight forward

[@VishalNamani]

What is the radial menu u have on Photoshop?

[@mrnunez3D]

Is AutoHotPie. You can find all the info here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKG0hYioe8eSjJI

[@VishalNamani]

@mrnunez3D omg !!why didn't I know this earlier

[@mrnunez3D]

@@VishalNamani No worries, I just got to found out a few months ago researching for this kinda stuff! Had to share it!

[@hellomtfkers]

you are so handsome

[@carlobadocchi3025]

bro you are mad ahaha what a patience

[@mrnunez3D]

lol, thanks! Pretty mad 🫠

[@paulcocoy4703]

Funfact, Fortichers sculpt on Maya. I know thius from a Forticher chrasculpt artist. Sleep well !

[@mrnunez3D]

Yeap, they did it on Maya

[@Singleraxis]

This is amazing, but for trying to imitate the Arcane style, u kinda move away from that in UE.

[@mrnunez3D]

yeah but my point was to do it realtime and in UE, so I could go beyond and do animation or even gameplay

[@Singleraxis]

@@mrnunez3D It reminds me more of pre-Arcane Jinx shots tthough!

[@colin.thorsell]

3:10 😛😛🤤🤤

[@ninjazinho]

Português?

[@mrnunez3D]

Im native spanish speaker, so I wouldnt risk it with my Portoñol :P. You can put the Portuguese subtitles though ;)

[@ninjazinho]

@@mrnunez3D Thanks for your answer!

[@Crixus156]

bro your logo looks like marc brunet ... change it and think something more original I came here because I thought its marc's video

[@mrnunez3D]

Mmm…I get what you mean

[@Crixus156]

@@mrnunez3D YO THANKS

[@flexenial]

Thanks for great tutorial that anyone can understand 🎉♥️🦾

[@mrnunez3D]

Thanks! I aim to keep it simple :)

[@smittywerbenjaggermanjensen11]

Awesome demonstration. Thank you for making this video.

[@mrnunez3D]

No problem! Happy to help out! Glad you liked it!