Tutorial for Editing NPCs/Followers?

[howls]

Hey there!

For months I've been studying videos, looking for forums that could guide me through or give me an idea of the process of editing NPCs.

I'm talking body type (preferably CBBE in case there's a specific way for each body type) Eyes, hair, face, etc.

 

I know a method that could(?) possibly work, and that's making a standalone follower and linking the textures, meshes, scripts etc. Truly I'm not entirely  sure how to do that but I can guess the general way that would work.

Tutorial I've been researching can be found here and also this one here

Long story short I'm trying to make this follower

 

look like this

 

 

 

So to be a bit more in depth with what I know. I'm telling you guys what I know so you can correct me on anything I might be missing.

 

I've seen people all over edit the look of followers, mainly a stream I watch by the name of Ning999. He's edited the faces and body types of followers such as Sofia,  Adenz's Follower Marie Rose, and just a handful of them to be quick about it. I'd ask him for the step by step guide but his English isn't always easy to catch onto and I know it's a long list of things you probably gotta do. As for behind the process of this task I suppose it requires the use of Creation Kit and TESV Edit. 

 

Majority of the tuts I've come across on here always seem to lead to some old so called "broken" program on the nexus which doesn't seem to uphold exactly I'm looking for. I'm 90% positive the way I know is the way to roll. I just don't have that confirmation cause if you ask me, I'm still learning a lot about modding and LL is the home of questions like this. So input all the knowledge you guys have got about this cause myself and a lot of people here would love to know. In fact there's probably a guide already out for it, I just can't find it. 

 

Thanks to everyone in advance.

[pringles89]

here is another video for making standalone follower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcHw4sqrrx8

 

once you have made the follower, use

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/64875/?

to transfer the look from your standalone follower to the custom follower