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Creating Dragon Ball's Goku in Z Brush and Maya: Part 3

What You'll Be Creating

1. Modelling Outfit in Maya

Step 1

Start Maya and open the file which was saved in the last part of the tutorial series. Create an iris for Goku. Create a cylinder and reduce the subdivision axis.

Step 2

Delete the unwanted faces. Go to Modify > Center Pivot and move the iris to the eye position. Then go to Modify > Freeze Transformation.

Step 3

Go to front view, press Ctrl-1 to isolate the selected object, hold D-X to snap the pivot point to the middle of grid.

Step 4

Press Ctrl-D to duplicate the iris, change the number of Scale X to -1 to mirror the iris to opposite side. Then freeze transformation again.

Step 5

Turn on Symmetry World X. Select the body mesh and make live. Use Quad Draw tool to create the clothes by adding the dot and faces like what we do for body re-topology.

Step 6

Turn off the Symmetry, as you can see Goku’s clothes is overlapping from left to right but not symmetry.

Step 7

Continue the modelling without Symmetry, overlap the faces first.

Step 8

Exit Quad Draw tool, deactivate the body mesh make live. Move the overlapped faces forward.

Step 9

Select all the faces, hold Shift and Right Mouse Button and then Extrude faces.

Step 10

Increase the number of Local Translate Z until it is not intersected with the body mesh.

Step 11

Delete the inner faces of the clothes.

Step 12

Create a torus as belt, reduce the number of Section Radius and Subdivisions Height.

Step 13

Adjust the clothes vertices to make it look like tied up with the belt.

Step 14

Extrude the bottom edges and adjust the shapes for the clothes.

Step 15

Repeat previous steps for the pants.

Step 16

Deactivate the body Make Live. Select all the faces and extrude like step 9-11 to prevent intersection.

Step 17

Select the bottom edge loop and Extrude.

Step 18

Insert some edge loops for the pants.

Step 19

Adjust the shapes and add divisions by using Multi Cut Tool for the pants.

Step 20

Create a plane as the shoe base, reduce the subdivisions number.

Step 21

Insert some edge loops and adjust the shapes.

Step 22

Extrude the border edge loop and move upward, adjust the shape according to shoes shapes.

Step 23

Extrude again and adjust the shape.

Step 24

With two edges selected, hold Shift and click with Right Mouse Button and select Bridge. Insert some edge loops in between the faces.

Step 25

Select the edge loop from the hole, hold Shift, Right Click and Fill Hole.

Step 26

Use Multi Cut Tool to connect the vertices. Then extrude the edges again to shape the shoes.

Step 27

Repeat step 3-4 to flip the shoes to the opposite side.

Step 28

Duplicate the body, delete all the faces except wrist part.

Step 29

Adjust the vertices to prevent intersection.

Step 30

Create a plane as the belt.

Step 31

Adjust the shape and duplicate to the opposite side. Do some adjustment so that it won’t look too symmetrical.

Step 32

Create a cube for belt knot. Add some subdivision and adjust the vertices.

Step 33

Create a cylinder as the tail. Reduce the number of subdivisions axis.

Step 34

Extrude the faces and adjust the shape into tails.

2. Unwrapping UVs

Step 1

Open the UV Editor under Windows > Modeling Editor. Select the body mesh, then click on Planar under Create tab.

Step 2

Select the edges from the bottom of neck, click on Cut under Cut and Sew tab.

Step 3

Cut out the eyes UV too.

Step 4

Select the ear edge loop, cut again the UV.

Step 5

Select the middle edges of the head and cut the UV.

Step 6

Select the head UV by holding Right Mouse Button in UV Editor and drag to UV shell.

Step 7

Click on Unfold to unwrap the UV.

Step 8

Repeat the previous steps for the other parts of body.

Step 9

Select all the UV shells, click on Get under Transform tab, then click on Set. This is to make sure all the UV has the same UV size. Then arrange the UVs into the UV space.

Step 10

You can click on Layout under Arrange and Layout tab to arrange the UVs automatically.

Step 11

Arrange the UVs side by side for easier to view.

Conclusion

In the next part of the tutorial series, I'll show you how to start baking the normal map and texturing.

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25+ Best Real Estate WordPress Themes for 2020 Websites

It can be difficult to differentiate yourself in the real estate industry, but a beautiful website can certainly help. 

Finding the perfect real estate theme is a challenge, considering the sheer number of themes available. That’s why we’ve curated a premier selection of our responsive WordPress real estate themes, so you can easily find the features you want along with an attractive site design made for 2020. 

Best Creative Real Estate WordPress Themes for 2020 on Envato Market

Envato Market’s WordPress real estate category, home to almost 200 premium real estate themes has you covered: 

Best real estate premium templates for 2020, available for sale on Envato Market (Themeforest). 

Here’s a collection of the best-selling responsive WordPress real estate themes currently available on Themeforest:

1. HomePress - Real Estate WordPress Theme

This real estate WordPress theme features 10 premade homepages to get your website design jumpstarted. With this theme, you can easily integrate Yelp, contact forms, video backgrounds, and the popular email service provider MailChimp. With the unlimited search fields, autocomplete search function, and radius search and geolocation, your website visitors have the power to find the exact property they are looking for. 

2. MyHome Real Estate WordPress

MyHome is a premium Real Estate WordPress that is flexible and innovative. When creating a real estate website, it needs to be user-friendly and this theme ensures that your users will have a positive experience. 

The drag and drop page builder easily allows you to customize the design to suit your specific agencies' needs. One important feature that you can find on this theme is the ability to change user roles. You can grant different levels of access on your WordPress website to allow specific team members to perform various tasks on your website. 

3. Freehold - Responsive Real Estate Theme

Freehold is an up-to-date real estate WordPress theme to showcase properties on offer by real estate agents. It's responsive meaning that it's mobile and tablet friendly and is as much at home on those devices as it is on the a desktop.

With demo content included and a drag-and-drop page builder, no coding is required to achieve first class results with customisations including unlimited colours. All of this backed up with top-notch support in case you need it.

4. Homey - Booking and Rentals WordPress Theme

A powerful booking platform that empowers you in the running of a residential or commercial lettings and rental business, Homey is one of the best real estate wordpress themes out there.

With feature-rich themes, modern design and functionality, Homey includes functions such as booking, payment advanced search and bookings management making it a suitable solution for lettings agents. And Homey is multi-language ready! 

5. Homeland - Responsive Real Estate Theme for WordPress

Homeland is a realtor WordPress theme for building real estate WordPress sites with a minimalist approach and a modern, clean, flat design. It's the perfect solution for professionals and agencies working in Real Estate.

Three theme layouts, widget-ready with custom page templates and custom post types, this updated real estate template for WordPress makes it super-easy to add property listings and achieve professional results. 

6. Findeo - Real Estate WordPress Theme

Findeo is one of the best responsive real estate WordPress themes with a user experience focussed design that builds trust and credibility with the audience. Creating such a high-performing real estate WordPress theme is easy with the drag-and-drop forms builder.

Findeo also incorporates WooCommerce functionality to take payments via PayPal, Visa, MasterCard and American Express. Handy for charging monthly subscriptions or charging for the upload of new properties to the website.

Automatic notifications let your customers know about recently approved or expired listings and more.

7. MaisonCo - Single Property WordPress Theme

Let’s begin our list with a very stylish and elegant theme, built to market a single property. Whether you’re promoting a high-class apartment, a holiday villa, or even office space for rent, MaisonCo puts your property in the right light. 

Three homepage options, all equally stylish, give you options straight off the bat. The “property showcase” and “schedule visit” form will make your website functional, and the “dynamic nearby places” feature will give users an instant feel for which restaurants and amenities can be found in the local area.

8. Zoacres - Real Estate WordPress Theme

Brand new at the time of writing, Zoacres is already a trending item on Themeforest. Consider this WordPress real estate template if you want a fast-loading and fully responsive theme furnished with plenty of options. Zoacres supports Google Places and Google Maps, providing a user-friendly interface and an advanced search experience. Visitors will enjoy the custom pins, detailed maps, and geolocation features.

If that still isn’t enough to convince you to take a look, Zoacres includes a frontend property manager so users can manage their listings or properties, while the backend manager allows the site admin complete control over all listings.

9. Houzez - Modern WordPress Real Estate Theme (2020)

If you’re looking for a modern WordPress real estate template that allows you to showcase your properties as well as manage them on the backend, look no further than Houzez. 

It’s been updated for 2020, with a number of new features. The theme allows you to coordinate all your agents, accept property submissions, and allow your visitors to search for properties by their proximity to your agency. 

You can also show related properties on individual property pages and display floor plan information. Along with powerful admin panel, Visual Composer, and Revolution Slider, you can customize every aspect of your site, and create stunning slideshows of your properties. 

10. Residence - 2020 Flexible Real Estate WordPress Theme

The Residence WP theme comes with 11 pre-made demos and several possible ways to display your properties. You can choose between a grid, list, and half map options, which come in handy for quickly locating the property on the map. 

There are over 350 organized theme options so you can create a truly unique and modern real estate website in 2020. This WordPress real estate website template also offers advanced search capabilities, property submissions, the ability to create membership packages, and much more.

11. Real Estate 7 - Premium WP Real Estate Theme

The Real Estate 7 WordPress real estate theme has been updated in 2020. It offers plenty of features that will allow you to engage more users, capture more leads, and earn more commissions. Some of the features include:

• powerful admin panel with live previewer
• front-end listing submission and management system.
• responsive design
• one-click demo import
• co-listing support with the ability to add one or more agents to any listing.
• full booking system
• advanced search
• IDXpress support

Build a great real estate website, with a modern design, and professional elements you need, quickly.

12. Real Homes - Clean WordPress Theme for Realtors

Unlike free WordPress themes for real estate that may lack attention to quality, this premium WP template was freshly updated for 2020, and comes with the professional features you need to make a great website.

The Real Homes theme is one of the best-selling themes on ThemeForest. It has a clean and elegant design and comes with customizable properties search, Google Maps integrations, the ability to compare different properties, list and grid layouts, and more. 

Take advantage of beautiful gallery templates to showcase your properties and customize every aspect of your real estate website with the built-in customizer. 

13. WP Rentals - Booking & Accommodation WordPress Theme

Consider using WP Rentals if you want a top WordPress theme to easily publish and offer properties for daily rent. Each property supports the ability to set a custom price per night, depending on the length of booking period. 

Users can also register and submit their own listings while you earn a commission, which you can accept through PayPal, Stripe, or wire transfer.

14. MyHome - Innovative 2020 WordPress Real Estate Theme

The MyHome theme comes with nine different home page layouts and three versions of property sliders. You can even use videos to promote your properties and capture visitor’s attention. This great real estate website template is also translation-ready and allows properties to load on the pages without having to refresh the pages.

15. RealtySpace - Professional Real Estate WordPress Theme

Try out the RealtySpace theme if you want a set of a real estate website template for WordPress that will help you manage your properties and accept both paid and free submissions. The users can’t stop raving about it:

“Amazing theme and above all a flexible and very very patient support! they are really kind, reactive and helpful !!! I warmly recommend it.”

This best WP theme also offers an elegant design and tons of customization options. You can design a great real estate website with it fast. 

16. Beyot - Easy to Use Realty WordPress Theme Design

The Beyot WordPress theme offers all the features you need to create a powerful, responsive real-estate website. Along with a stunning design, it also includes IDX support, and includes ease to use features. You can customize the colors, fonts, and more through an intuitive theme options panel. 

This realty WP theme also includes tons of video guides and you can choose from any of the six+ demos to create a unique website. Visitors can submit the properties on the front-end and the backend and you can easily set new property types.

17. Real Places - Customizable WordPress Theme for Realtors

The Real Places responsive WordPress real estate theme is packed with high quality features and is very popular among users. 

It comes with advanced properties search functionality that lets you customize which fields you want to display, in what order you want those fields to appear, and what data will be displayed in those fields. This is perfect for letting visitors search the properties according to specific requirements. 

You can customize the layout with a drag and drop manager and use the admin panel to customize colors, fonts, and more. On top of that, the theme offers various property listing layouts, listing attachments such as floor plans, display related properties, and accept front end property submissions.

18. Windsor - Apartment and Single Property Real Estate Theme

If you sell a single property, consider the Windsor theme as it can be easily adapted to accommodate both single properties or multiple ones. On top of the Visual Composer plugin, this WordPress real estate website templates is compatible with bbPress and BuddyPress so you can add social features to your site and encourage discussions between users.

19. Landmark - Versatile Real Estate WordPress Theme

The Landmark is a versatile and visually stunning real estate WordPress theme with a modern design and tons of demo layouts and page templates. The main features include:

• responsive design
• four custom post types for properties, agents, galleries, and testimonials
• advanced and live property search
• frontend submission
• floor plans
• favorite properties
• AJAX reviews and ratings
• membership packages/pricing table

Unlike free responsive real estate WordPress themes, you can count on the quality of the code and easy to use features this theme comes with. Use it to quickly make a real estate website with a modern design in 2020.

20. FullHouse - Creative WP Theme for Real Estate

The FullHouse theme comes with a flexible layout system. Its setup is dedicated to managing your properties and agents. It includes a powerful search and filter system that allows user to find the best property for them. Here’s what customers have to say about the theme:

“Great features, nice design, and functional capable. Most functional real estate theme.”

The theme is also SEO optimized and integrates perfectly with the IDX plugin. Make a quality real estate site with this modern responsive WP template.

21. ReEstate - Powerful Real Estate WordPress Template

The ReEstate theme is a great choice for property brokers and agents who want a top site design to showcase their listings with. Some of the robust features include:

• multiple home styles
• three slider styles
• custom post type for properties
• property list & grid view
• DsIDXpress supported
• map search
• powerful theme options
• front-end Login/Registration form
• translation-ready

Use this WordPress theme to make powerful real estate websites in 2020. 

22. Solus - Professional Real Estate Theme for WordPress

The Solus WP theme comes with a detailed documentation file that will help you set it up just the way you want. It’s infinitely customizable and includes demo content so you don’t have to start from scratch. 

In terms of real estate website template features, it’s perfect for showcasing a single property. It offers property galleries and a video tour as well as Google Maps integration. It also has the ability to list all the features of the property directly on the homepage. 

23. OpalHomes - 2020 Modern Single Property WP Theme

The OpalHomes real estate WordPress template was exclusively built for single property sale and rental websites. It comes with one of the best, flexible layout system. It includes more than six unique demos, creative design, and ultimate core features to build an outstanding professional property website. 

You can display all the important property amenities as well as a list of dynamically updated nearby places. Your visitors can use a booking form to schedule a tour and there’s an option to upload a video tour of the property.

24. Hometown - Stylish WordPress Real Estate Template

If you’re on the lookout for a stylish real estate WP theme, look no further than Hometown. The elegant website template design along is sure to help you attract more leads and generate more sales. 

It also includes important realty features like property search, property slider, front end user login and property submission, and IDX plugin support.

25. Apartment WP - Advanced Responsive Property Theme

The Apartment responsive WordPress theme offers a clean and modern design with options like advanced Google Maps, Street View, and panoramas with stunning visual effects. It’s designed to help you to stand out from your competitors. The theme is also fully customizable and comes with numerous layout possibilities. 

26. 2DreamVilla - Stunning Real Estate WordPress Theme

Make your real estate site the best it can be in 2020. The DreamVilla theme for WordPress is sure to capture the attention of your visitors not only because of its features, but because of its stunning parallax design as well. 

This great real estate website template integrates with the WP Quick Booking Manager Pro Plugin. It allows you to display nearby places, add a sortable property gallery, and much more. Even users agree it has all the right features:

“Great theme, with very good possibilities. It is well built, with a high-quality design. Thank you!”

27. Zuhaus - Real Estate Theme

The Zuhaus real estate WordPress theme has everything you need to create a complete real estate agency website. You can quickly add stylish looking layouts for apartments and property's, implement advanced filters, view an advanced statistics dashboard, and much more. 

28. WpEstate Real Estate WordPress Theme

With Wp Estate you can allow your users to submit their properties. This can be a great opportunity to create a fee-based subscription to help your real estate business generate more revenue. 

This real estate wordpress theme allows for google maps integration, advanced search options, and a comprehensive list of property listing options. Here is what users of this theme are saying about it:

"One of the best designs for real estate. The theme is easy to customize and the support is very good and tries to help you out as much as possbile."

5 Benefits of Using Premium Real Estate WordPress Themes 

Are you still not convinced that using a premium real estate theme will help you create a fully functional website for your agency? I have included a list of five reasons why you should use one of Themeforest’s real estate themes below. 

You have the key..

1. No Coding

Absolutely no coding is required with any of these themes. This gives you the flexibility to create a completely custom website with a user-friendly front and back end interface.

2. Save Time and Money

By having a theme that is already designed and has key functions implemented, you can kick start the website creation process without having to start from scratch. Without a premium theme, time and money would need to be spent hiring a website designer to create mockups for your website, implement, and build them. 

3. Dedicated Support

All of the themes listed above come with customer support to help you solve any problems that may arise when using them. 

4. You Are in Control

While you can use these WordPress real estate themes right out of the box, you still have complete flexibility and control of how your website will function and look. Different themes may offer various features that you can change, but overall the themes give you a level of customization that allows you to fit the theme to your exact needs as a real estate agent. 

5. Content Management

When maintaining your website, you will be spending most of your time editing your apartment and property listings. The real estate themes are built to aid you in the listing creation and editing process making it much easier to manage all of your listings. 

Grab a premium real estate WordPress theme now!

5 Design Tips for Real Estate Websites to Get More Leads

Choosing the right theme for your real estate website is a great way to come up with an attractive design that also has all the features you need. Here are five tips that will help you make the most out of your new Real Estate WordPress theme.

1. Optimize for Photography

One of the very first things your visitors want to see when they come searching for a property will be the photos. Ensure your chosen theme has plenty of space and features that allow you to showcase both the exterior and the interior of any listed property. You can take advantage of property galleries like those offered in Real Homes to add multiple images to each listing.

2. Make Use of the Booking Form

Adding a booking form makes it easier on the visitors to take action and schedule a tour of the listing. This is a great way to encourage interaction and increase the chances of closing more sales. Consider using a theme like OpalHomes to easily add it to your site.

3. Add Featured Listings to Your Homepage

You can also highlight your own listings on the homepage by adding a featured listing slideshow. This allows you to showcase your best properties and gives visitors a way to easily find the property they’re interested in.

4. Include Useful Information

Listing property information is an absolute necessity, but you can take it a step further and include information that will help your customers get familiar with all the terms. Consider creating a separate page that provides them with an explanation of the buying process as well as terms such as a fixed rate mortgage, adjustable rate mortgage, and more.

5. Incorporate a Signup Form

Lastly, keep in mind that some of your visitors may not be ready to schedule a tour right then and there. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to capture their email address. Include a strategically placed email sign up form so you can stay in touch with them. That way, you can nurture the relationship until they’re ready to buy.

Build Your Real Estate Site With One of These Top 2020 Themes

An attractive website with all the right features can help you land more leads and close more sales in 2020. 

There are plenty of ways to create a professional and modern real estate website for property listings with these easy to use templates. Browse our wide selection of creative real estate premium templates for 2020 from Envato Market, or, if you’re on a tight budget, you can opt for one of our free WordPress themes.

Editorial Note: Our staff updates this post regularly—adding creative real estate premium templates with the best, creative and professional designs.