MADE Forum: Chris Platz "Rapid Prototyping Game Character"

Using all free tools, follow industry veteran Chris Platz, aka “the Dire Dungeon Master” as he sculpts, paints, rigs, and animates a 3D character, loads it into Unreal Engine, and prepares it for 3D printing. All in less than 1 hour.

Tools: Sculptris, SculptGL, Maya, Unreal Engine.

Chris Leon Platz is an educator and award winning multimodal mixed reality artist, entrepreneur, and research scientist. His works have  been featured by Autodesk Gallery, Game Developer’s Conference,  and published scientific research  in SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI, and NIME.

Currently he’s working on an experimental indie game World of Mush “WoM”, using stop motion myconoid characters and Unreal Engine. He’s also a dedicated life-long educator, and supports the next generation of Bay Area game developers by teaching at Berkeley City College, Cal State East Bay, and Mission College. 

Host or Publisher The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment