--- title: Breakdown: Sculpting and Animating a Detailed Evil... description: A 3D character artist walks through her full production pipeline for 'Evil Jester,' a portfolio piece created during her time at Think Tank Training Centre.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/breakdown-sculpting-and-animating-a-detailed-evil-jester-character-iueqiy6dk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Breakdown: Sculpting and Animating a Detailed Evil Jester Character | daily.dev og:description: A 3D character artist walks through her full production pipeline for 'Evil Jester,' a portfolio piece created during her time at Think Tank Training Centre.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/breakdown-sculpting-and-animating-a-detailed-evil-jester-character-iueqiy6dk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IUeqiy6Dk.png og:image:alt: Breakdown: Sculpting and Animating a Detailed Evil Jester Character og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Breakdown: Sculpting and Animating a Detailed Evil Jester Character **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A 3D character artist walks through her full production pipeline for 'Evil Jester,' a portfolio piece created during her time at Think Tank Training Centre. She covers building the base mesh from a MetaHuman, sculpting in ZBrush, simulating cloth in Marvelous Designer, texturing in Substance 3D Painter and Photoshop, retopology and polycount optimization, and the technical challenges of rigging simulated cloth and physics assets in Unreal Engine 5.7/5.8, including a workaround for physics-driven props not moving when attached to sockets. She also describes using Cascadeur and a new markerless mocap plugin for animating the final cinematic. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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