I'll echo that you'll need to have a good understanding of human and animal anatomy, grab a pencil and start drawing! Pay attention to weight and balance. Also things to consider is to learn the basics of rigging and animation, so you know how your mesh should be constructed to avoid issues come rig/anim time.
Learning to draw and knowing the anatomy of animals and humans is vital. Of course, you can learn all at once. Youtube has plenty of tutorials on for free. Digital tutors is good, gnomon is great and eat 3d has some good tutorials as well. There are also plenty of books out there if you rather read than watch videos.…
I hope that The right Section to post in. First Hi Everybody , I'm Aiming to become 3D character artist in Games i started to take Anatomy Drawing class Still i'm confused about : 1-Starting To learn Zbrush to sculpt characters. 2-Or Start Learning Maya Polygon modeling for characters . Which Path should i take ?? I like…
learn the basics of art before jumping into 3d. i look at portfolios all day, and the number one fail is no foundation knowledge.. if your good at art then making art on a computer is easy, if your good at using a computer learning art is not so easy.
you'll need to be on par with the greatest of the great in that field. There's sooo many talented character artists out there that you'll need to be a rockstar to get a job as a character artist. Good luck with that.
Learn to model with polygons before you sculpt.. for games, those high poly models are useless if you dont know how to make/retopologize good 3d meshes.
It really depends on your workflow... which you haven't developed yet :| ... some people find zBrush to be a great base modeling app using zspheres... some people still prefer to build the base in Maya or 3DS... I would agree with Sinister.... learn anatomy before trying characters. There are too many character artists…
Regarding your question- the answer is both. If you jump into Zbrush w/o having an understanding of the do`s and don'ts basic 3d, you`ll find your self struggling quite a bit. conversely- if you want to compete in the character market, you`ll need to know a sculpting package.