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Posing with Mixamo Course

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Posing with Mixamo Course

Posing Character - Maya / Mixamo / ZBrush Course

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

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person icon David Bittorf

English [CC]

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Lectures -6

Resources -1

Duration -43 mins

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Course Description

Posing Character - Maya / Mixamo / ZBrush Tutorial

[43 min] Project Files Included

This a step-by-step tutorial about how to dynamically pose your without any rigging knowledge.  Learn how to pose your ZBrush character (along with it's subtools) using Maya and Mixamo without losing any of your high resolution ZBrush details.  This course includes a Maya Script that will automatically apply a control rig to your auto rigged Mixamo model.  Once the character is posed to your liking you will be able to bring it back into ZBrush to make your final adjustments.  

Video Tutorials

  • Lesson 1: [5:47] Set Up
  • Lesson 2: [7:21] Posing with Mixamo
  • Lesson 3: [9:58] Transferring Pose to ZBrush
  • Lesson 4: [10:37] Adding Auto Control Rig
  • Lesson   5:  [9:44]     Large Edits in ZBrush

Files Provided:

  • Mixamo Maya Control Rig Script (Maya 2016 or newer)
  • 3 Mixamo Poses
  • All OBJs for each pose
  • 2 ZBrush Poses (ZBrush 2019 or newer)

Software Recommended:

  • ZBrush 2019 or newer
  • Maya 2018 or newer
  • Adobe  Mixamo Account (Free if you have an Adobe Log in)

This is part of the Creating Female Character Series:
The series is designed to show the workflow from Modeling to Animation but any part can be viewed as a stand alone lesson.  You will be provided the proper starting files to follow along.

Goals

  • Learn how to Pose your character using Mixamo
  • Have a skeleton automatically generated for your characters
  • Use a script to automatically generated a control rig
  • Transfer your posed character from Mixamo back into ZBrush without losing any detail
  • Make subtle adjustment edits in ZBrush
  • Successfully modify a posed character with several subtools
  • Assign pre-built custom poses to your character.

Prerequisites

  • Basic ZBrush and Maya Interface knowledge.
Posing with Mixamo Course

Curriculum

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Posing with Mixamo

6 Lectures
  • play icon Course Intro 00:28 00:28
  • play icon Getting Started and Project Files 640MB (Zip Download) 05:47 05:47
  • play icon Posing with Mixamo 07:21 07:21
  • play icon Transferring Pose to ZBrush 09:58 09:58
  • play icon Adding Auto Control Rig 10:37 10:37
  • play icon Large Edits in ZBrush 09:44 09:44

Instructor Details

David Bittorf

David Bittorf

I'm very passionate about 3D. I'm currently creating courses in Maya, ZBrush, and Substance Painter.   I've been teaching Autodesk Maya and Pixologic ZBrush at a college level for 18 years. I've also worked for the Digital Media Academy and have taught Maya and ZBrush to a wide range of learners spanning from high school students to instructors. I have experience tutoring students 1-on1 since 2006. In 2010 I won "Teacher of the Year" at my college and two years later I won a world wide award "CG and VFX instructor of the Year" by Digital Tutors.

My professional profile outside of teaching includes a wide range of real world experience. I have posed and lit characters for "The Order 1886" (Playstation 4). I was a character modeler / texture artist / and rigger for Gemvara. I've done modeling / lighting / rendering for several iPhone and iPad apps. I've worked on some independent games, product visualizations and have one of the top rated online 3D libraries in the world. I've been teaching Maya since 2006 but have been mastering it since 2002.

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