"Learning 3D is like learning a language - practice is key"

I am Lukas Reisinger from Austria. Currently I work as a 3D freelancer. I love stylized props and characters. Realistic is amazing too, but in stylized you have more creative freedom in sculpting and modelling. I started my 3D journey of self study in 2016 with 3ds Max before taking Art Heroes Stylized Character Program.

The name of my Project was "The wizard girl". It's by the concept artist Alexey Yakovlev. Most concepts I use, I find on Pinterest.

For the first project she was just perfect. She had a lot of garments on and also some great assets.

My biggest milestone was to create a complete character. To be honest, if I had failed sculpting the clothes and the robe, I could have lived with myself because at least I completed my character.

Alfredo Baro, my mentor, helped me with the blockout and the face. He gave me really good feedback.

The character is brought to life by the pose and the lighting. It took me a long time to get this just right. It was worth it and my skills really improved.

My biggest challenges in this project was posing and hair. I think many of the students have problems with posing.

I joined Q&A sessions with my mentor and asked for help from the community and mentors to overcome all the challenges. I learnt a lot at Art Heroes.

For this project I worked mostly in Zbrush, Art Heroes taught me how to manually ensure my character was lowpoly.

After the course I found the plugin ZWrap - I got a discount with Art Heroes Student Card.

With Zwrap, I can project any lowpoly character to my highpoly mesh and I get a nice clean and optimal lowpoly mesh. The great thing is that you save a lot of time and you don't need to retopo.

After the project I made many more characters and I started to rig my characters in Blender. I find this approach much easier than posing in Zbrush.

In the last year I've learnt the basics of sculpting in Blender and make the changes directly in Blender. I think everyone finds his own way to do this.

After the project I made many more characters and I started to rig my characters in Blender. I find this approach much easier than posing in Zbrush.

In the last year I've learnt the basics of sculpting in Blender and make the changes directly in Blender. I think everyone finds his own way to do this when they feel confident.