Blender Character Creation: Master The Basics And Beyond

The Ultimate Character Design Tutorial, Develop Your 3D modeling Skills in blender where you go from block-out to Render

What you’ll learn
Blocking out characters from references
Adding fine details and grooming characters
UV unwrapping and texturing your character
Rigging posing and rendering your creation

Requirements
Basic understanding of blender and substance painter UI

Description
Welcome to my character creation course, where you will learn to bring your ideas to life through the powerful 3D software, Blender. In this course, you will discover the techniques and workflows to create high-quality, realistic, and stylized characters for animation, gaming, and illustration projects.Our course is designed for beginners and intermediate artists who want to improve their 3D modeling and texturing skills. I will guide you step-by-step through the entire process of character creation, from the initial concept and blockout to the final polished result. Along the way, you will learn how to use Blender’s tools and features, such as Box modeling, retopology and localisation of topology, UV mapping,texturing in substance painter, and material creation. Throughout the course, you will create a Stylized character, with a unique style and personality. I will cover topics such as anatomy, proportion, and facial expressions, as well as techniques to bring your characters to life through rigging and Posing.By the end of the course, you will have the knowledge and confidence to create your own characters from scratch and take your 3D art to the next level. Whether you’re an aspiring artist, a game developer, or a freelance illustrator, this course will give you the skills to succeed. All you need is a 3D mouse, blenders 2.93 version (free software!) and a trial of substance painter, So let’s get started on your character creation journey with Blender!

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Blockout and Modeling

Lecture 2 Block out the head

Lecture 3 Face details

Lecture 4 Secondary face details

Lecture 5 Modeling the Ears

Lecture 6 Finalizing the head

Lecture 7 Blocking out the body

Lecture 8 Lower body

Lecture 9 Hands part 1

Lecture 10 Hands part 2

Lecture 11 finalizing the body

Section 3: Modeling the clothes

Lecture 12 Modeling a baseball cap part 1

Lecture 13 Modeling a baseball cap 2

Lecture 14 Shirt and pants

Lecture 15 Shoes

Section 4: UV unwrapping

Lecture 16 UV unwrapping part 1

Lecture 17 UV unwrapping part 2

Section 5: Skin texturing substance painter

Lecture 18 Exporting your character

Lecture 19 Character base color

Lecture 20 Colour zones

Lecture 21 Bump map

Lecture 22 SSS and roughness

Section 6: Clothes texturing substance painter

Lecture 23 Shirt texturing part 1

Lecture 24 Shirt texturing part 2

Lecture 25 Pants material

Lecture 26 Assigning Materials

Section 7: Rigging and grooming your character

Lecture 27 Hair grooming

Lecture 28 rigging part 1

Lecture 29 rigging part 2

Lecture 30 Eyebrows and Eye textures

Section 8: posing and rendering

Lecture 31 Final lecture

Beginner to intermediate blender users