Ultimate character creation in Blender- From beginner to pro

Ultimate character creation in Blender: From beginner to pro, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.75, with 209 lectures, based on 476 reviews, and has 3216 subscribers.

You will learn about How to navigate in Blender and recognize the workspace. Be able to identify the different 3D modeling techniques. How to place reference images which will serve as a guide to model 3D characters. Use the box modeling technique to create a hard surface character with primitive shapes. Use the polygon modeling technique to create a simple organic character. How to use modifiers that will affect an objects geometry in a non-destructive way. How to model a professional looking human character with the polygon modeling technique and the curves modeling method. Create and assign materials to the model. Understand how to unwrap a 3D mesh into a UV map. How to organize and export a UV layout to later use it as a guide for painting textures. Recognize how to use the shader editor and identify certain nodes. Apply texture images and PBR maps in order to create different materials. Generate procedural textures combining nodes to compose new shaders. Modify the 3D mesh with shape keys in order to give facial expressions to the character. Develop a rig (add bones) which will allow the character to move. Use drivers to adjust the values of the shape keys and give some constraints to the bone controllers. Identify the difference between forward kinematics and inverse kinematics. Design shapes to make the control bones more appealing and intuitive. How to assign automatic weights to the mesh and how to manually paint weights. Be able to pose and animate the character once the rig is finished. This course is ideal for individuals who are People who are curious about the world of 3D modeling and animation. or People who are willing to learn how to create professional looking 3D characters. It is particularly useful for People who are curious about the world of 3D modeling and animation. or People who are willing to learn how to create professional looking 3D characters.

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Summary

Title: Ultimate character creation in Blender: From beginner to pro

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.75

Number of Lectures: 209

Number of Published Lectures: 209

Number of Curriculum Items: 209

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 209

Original Price: $199.99

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What You Will Learn

How to navigate in Blender and recognize the workspace.

Be able to identify the different 3D modeling techniques.

How to place reference images which will serve as a guide to model 3D characters.

Use the box modeling technique to create a hard surface character with primitive shapes.

Use the polygon modeling technique to create a simple organic character.

How to use modifiers that will affect an objects geometry in a non-destructive way.

How to model a professional looking human character with the polygon modeling technique and the curves modeling method.

Create and assign materials to the model.

Understand how to unwrap a 3D mesh into a UV map.

How to organize and export a UV layout to later use it as a guide for painting textures.

Recognize how to use the shader editor and identify certain nodes.

Apply texture images and PBR maps in order to create different materials.

Generate procedural textures combining nodes to compose new shaders.

Modify the 3D mesh with shape keys in order to give facial expressions to the character.

Develop a rig (add bones) which will allow the character to move.

Use drivers to adjust the values of the shape keys and give some constraints to the bone controllers.

Identify the difference between forward kinematics and inverse kinematics.

Design shapes to make the control bones more appealing and intuitive.

How to assign automatic weights to the mesh and how to manually paint weights.

Be able to pose and animate the character once the rig is finished.

Who Should Attend

People who are curious about the world of 3D modeling and animation.

People who are willing to learn how to create professional looking 3D characters.

Target Audiences

People who are curious about the world of 3D modeling and animation.

People who are willing to learn how to create professional looking 3D characters.

Welcome to the “Ultimate character creation in Blender: From beginner to pro”.

In this course we will be using the open-source 3D software, Blender, to learn how to model, texture and rig 3D characters with a professional look.

We will start by getting an overview of the Blender interface, so we can get familiar with it and with all the tools that will be needed for the development of the course. We will get to know all of the very basics, how to navigate around the viewport, manipulate objects on the scene and learn some shortcuts so we can work more efficiently with the software.

When we finish getting the quick run-through of the Blender basics, we will actually start creating some characters. Our first approach to 3D modeling will be by using the box modeling technique which will allow us to model a hard-surface character, we will be using reference images and some primitive 3D shapes to create a Robot.

Then we will create our second character which is a Mouse. Here we will be using the polygon modeling technique which lets us model organic characters.

For our last and biggest project we will be creating a human character. We will use two techniques, the polygon modeling and the curves modeling method. We will make sure to work with the proper edge-flow for animation and we will model the face, body, hands, feet, hair, clothes and shoes, all from scratch.

When we finish modeling the human, we will continue by unwrapping all of the parts of the character creating its UV maps, so we can texture it later. For the shading phase, we will learn different methods that we can use to create materials, such as painting textures in other digital painting softwares, applying textures found in the internet, creating and applying PBR maps, creating procedural textures and using Blender’s own Texture Paint tool.

Later on, we will continue with the rigging section. We will be able to create a facial rig using shape keys, bones with drivers and constraints, so our human character can get some facial expressions. Then we will create the body rig by adding bones and following the right method to make them move, we will understand the difference between forward and inverse kinematics and we will be using controllers that will let us pose the character. Afterwards, we will give the bones a nicer look so the rig turns more appealing and intuitive to use.

Lastly, we will assign automatic weights from the rig into the mesh and we will also learn how to paint weights manually with the Weight Paint tool within Blender, so we can change the influence of the bones according to our needs.

In the end, when all of that is done, we will be able to pose our character and we will be ready to use our human character for animation purposes!

So, if you want to be able to create your own 3D characters for animation, this is the right course for you!

By the end of the lessons, you will be completely trained and will have all the necessary skills to build your own characters in Blender.

This course has over 30 hours of content, more than 200 videos and one teacher who just wanted to share her knowledge with fellow 3D artists.

What are you waiting for? Join me as we create professional looking 3D characters with Blender!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Blender basics

Lecture 1: Downloading Blender 2.9

Lecture 2: Basic tools

Lecture 3: Setting up Blender

Lecture 4: Understanding the views

Chapter 3: Introduction to modeling – Lets create a robot

Lecture 1: Robot: Reference images

Lecture 2: Robot: Basic head shape

Lecture 3: Robot: Head features

Lecture 4: Robot: Head details

Lecture 5: Robot: Body

Lecture 6: Robot: Legs

Lecture 7: Robot: Arms part 1

Lecture 8: Robot: Arms part 2

Lecture 9: Robot: Claws

Lecture 10: Robot: Board

Lecture 11: Robot: Final details

Chapter 4: Organic modeling – Creating a mouse

Lecture 1: Mouse: Reference images

Lecture 2: Mouse: Basic head shape

Lecture 3: Mouse: Head part 2

Lecture 4: Mouse: Nose

Lecture 5: Mouse: Ears

Lecture 6: Mouse: Body

Lecture 7: Mouse: Closing body gap

Lecture 8: Mouse: Legs

Lecture 9: Mouse: Arms

Lecture 10: Mouse: Feet

Lecture 11: Mouse: Hands

Lecture 12: Mouse: Face

Lecture 13: Mouse: Hair

Lecture 14: Mouse: Shirt

Lecture 15: Mouse: Pants

Lecture 16: Mouse: Shoes

Lecture 17: Mouse: Tail

Lecture 18: Mouse: Applying modifiers

Lecture 19: Mouse: Scarf

Lecture 20: Mouse: Final details

Chapter 5: Modeling a human character – Say hello to Mavis Maureen

Lecture 1: Mavis Maureen: Reference images

Lecture 2: Mavis Maureen: Basic head shape

Lecture 3: Mavis Maureen: Eye cavity

Lecture 4: Mavis Maureen: Eyes part 1

Lecture 5: Mavis Maureen: Eyes part 2

Lecture 6: Mavis Maureen: Jaw

Lecture 7: Mavis Maureen: Nose bridge and mouth loop

Lecture 8: Mavis Maureen: Nose

Lecture 9: Mavis Maureen: Nostrils

Lecture 10: Mavis Maureen: Mouth

Lecture 11: Mavis Maureen: Lips

Lecture 12: Mavis Maureen: Lip detail

Lecture 13: Mavis Maureen: Ear reference

Lecture 14: Mavis Maureen: Ear part 1

Lecture 15: Mavis Maureen: Ear part 2

Lecture 16: Mavis Maureen: Neck

Lecture 17: Mavis Maureen: Remaking the nose

Lecture 18: Mavis Maureen: Eyelids

Lecture 19: Mavis Maureen: Teeth part 1

Lecture 20: Mavis Maureen: Teeth part 2

Lecture 21: Mavis Maureen: Tongue

Lecture 22: Mavis Maureen: Inside of the mouth

Lecture 23: Mavis Maureen: Eyebrows

Lecture 24: Mavis Maureen: Eye detail

Lecture 25: Mavis Maureen: Back reference

Lecture 26: Mavis Maureen: Torso

Lecture 27: Mavis Maureen: Shoulders part 1

Lecture 28: Mavis Maureen: Shoulders part 2

Lecture 29: Mavis Maureen: Clavicle and spine

Lecture 30: Mavis Maureen: Crotch

Lecture 31: Mavis Maureen: Buttocks part 1

Lecture 32: Mavis Maureen: Buttocks part 2

Lecture 33: Mavis Maureen: Legs base

Lecture 34: Mavis Maureen: Breast part 1

Lecture 35: Mavis Maureen: Breast part 2

Lecture 36: Mavis Maureen: Breast part 3

Lecture 37: Mavis Maureen: Arms

Lecture 38: Mavis Maureen: Legs

Lecture 39: Mavis Maureen: Hands reference

Lecture 40: Mavis Maureen: Hands part 1

Lecture 41: Mavis Maureen: Hands part 2

Lecture 42: Mavis Maureen: Finger

Lecture 43: Mavis Maureen: Nail part 1

Lecture 44: Mavis Maureen: Nail part 2

Lecture 45: Mavis Maureen: Duplicating fingers

Lecture 46: Mavis Maureen: Thumb

Lecture 47: Mavis Maureen: Hand detail

Lecture 48: Mavis Maureen: Joining hand with body

Lecture 49: Mavis Maureen: Feet reference

Lecture 50: Mavis Maureen: Foot part 1

Lecture 51: Mavis Maureen: Foot part 2

Lecture 52: Mavis Maureen: Foot part 3

Lecture 53: Mavis Maureen: Toes part 1

Lecture 54: Mavis Maureen: Toes part 2

Lecture 55: Mavis Maureen: Toes part 3

Lecture 56: Mavis Maureen: Toes part 4

Lecture 57: Mavis Maureen: Joining toes to foot

Lecture 58: Mavis Maureen: Joining feet with body

Lecture 59: Mavis Maureen: Clothes reference

Instructors

Monica 3D
3D Artist

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2 stars: 3 votes

3 stars: 21 votes

4 stars: 110 votes

5 stars: 338 votes

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