Hello, as the title suggest I wanted to know the best workflow, software to use to make my process faster and efficient.
I am a developer first and plan to make a Visual Novel on the side.
For that I wanted to make my own characters and environments.
I started with youtube and the rest of the web find myself a suitable pipeline.
I am familiar with graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) and am a complete beginner to 3D but am willing to learn the necessary things.
For starters I have got and familiarlised myself with Character Creator 3 (Headshot + SkinGen plugin). I love the results and how much customisation I can achieve with it. Now I had 2 main issues with CC3, hair and clothing. For clothing I found a wonderful software called Marvelous Designer, I am yet to tinker with it but from what I have seen it fits my needs.
Hair has been a different topic altogether, it’s hard to find a detailed tutorial and whatever I have come across so far didn’t fit my needs. I learned the Hair particle system in Blender, but it doesn’t quite fit how I want it to look (high chance that it is due to my limited knowledge based on Youtube videos and self tinkering)
From the above choices I think you get the fact that I want to be able to make my custom characters, just with the least amount of legwork I can. I just want to do this as a hobby and there is only so much time I can spend on the same.
Also for environment building (home, office, a little bit of outside?)
Saying that, I would love if someone can give me some suggestions to include in my workflow (especially for hair), replace something, any good resource to learn etc.
Thank you for any help possible.