3D Female Armored Assassin in Blender course

Name: 3D Female Armored Assassin in Blender course
Rating: 4.4 (360 reviews)

Complex character creation in Blender for 3D print, render or game

Created byNIkolay Naydenov

Last updated 6/2023

English

What you'll learn

Modelling an armored female 3D character in Blender
Sculpting, modelling
Female body anatomy
Armor and stylized hair making

Course content

1 section • 43 lectures • 28h 41m total length

Introduction4:03
Setup Blender and starting the head30:09
More head modelling and anatomy33:03
Adding basic hair and eyelashes33:29
Develop basic hair and eyelashes in Blender by modeling eyebrows with planes, sculpting, and refining with mirror, solidify, and subdivision surface modifiers for a ready-to-print character.
Making a base torso30:34
Create a female base torso in Blender, blocking volumes from clavicle to pelvis, emphasize an hourglass shape and heroic forward pose using symmetry.
Arms and legs base modelling34:26
Begin base modelling of arms and legs with a sphere, elongate on the z axis, duplicate, and mirror for symmetry; shape shoulders, biceps, triceps, hips, breasts, and high heels.
Modelling the hand and fingers34:03
Refining the arms, hands and legs28:43
Refining the arms, hands and legs for a 3d female armored assassin in Blender, emphasizes realistic leg anatomy, tendons, and proportions with testing, inflating and smoothing to avoid stretched polygons.
Fixing things here and there26:26
Starting the 3D sketch and making the shoulder34:57
Start the shoulder armor sketch in Blender, using a UV sphere, y-axis symmetry, and layered meshes to align with the concept and prep for a 3D print.
3D sketching the forearm weapon armor47:21
Making a breast and knee armor 3D sketch40:06
Adding some details and start modelling the shoe43:51
Finishing the shoe32:29
Finish the shoe by building the lower geometry with controlled polycount, snapping, extruding, and forming triangles for clean topology. Then add hair curves and continue armor detailing.
Making the hair curves38:15
Master hair curves in Blender by building curve paths, adjusting curve options and geometry, duplicating strands for volume, integrating with the mesh for non-symmetric, believable look.
Making the horns and start refining the forearm armor37:51
Developing the forearmor weapon42:20
Fighting with the forearmor53:27
Finishing the forearmor45:55
Finish the forearmor in Blender by diagnosing mirror modifier issues, cleaning interior geometry, and refining topology with remeshing and selective dissolves, ensuring print-ready, collision-free geometry.
Start the retopo of the shoulder40:15
More retopo and refining the shoulder armor39:54
Finishing the shoulder armor44:45
Finish the shoulder armor for a female assassin character in blender by refining sharp edges, adding side details, and using mirror and subdivision surface modifiers to achieve clean, connected geometry.
Making the chest armor43:42
Craft a detailed chest armor in blender by inset and extruding edges, refining with creases, and adding lip details, while applying solidify and subdivision for thickness and smoothness.
Neck armor modelling38:13
Making of the crown45:09
Learn a Blender-driven process to create the crown for a 3D female armored assassin, adding diamonds and a back-of-the-head crystal, refining with solidify and subdivision for a sharp look.
Making the knee and finger armors52:56
Learn knee and finger armor modeling in Blender for a 3d female assassin, applying extrusion, subdivision, solidify, creases, edge loops, and mirror modifier for seamless fit.
Refining some parts39:10
Making gold stripes on the legs39:55
Adding a body and golden borders43:44
learn to model a body and add gold borders to armor in blender, using masking, mask extract, inflate, sculpting, and remesh techniques for smooth edges and seamless clothing integration.
Adding more golden borders38:12
Starting the cape35:57
Thicken the cape with the solidify modifier, remesh for detail, and use masking to refine the purple area before sculpting edges and preparing for printing.
Starting the pose52:01
Begin a dynamic pose for a 3d female armored assassin in blender, shaping legs, hips, shoulders, and arms through masking, sculpting, and careful pose adjustments.
Starting to adjust the armors and clothes54:43
Adjust the armors and clothes on the 3D female armored assassin in Blender, refining topology, remeshing, sculpting, and positioning limbs to ensure proper fit and a dynamic pose for printing.
More adjusting of armors and clothes52:29
Finishing the legs43:51
Finish the legs in Blender by refining sculpting in scope mode, applying the mirror modifier, and painting vertex colors to create a polished armored assassin model.
Finishing touches on forearmor weapons and body43:06
Fixing, detailing and life thoughts44:20
Working more on the hair and more life lessons50:45
Long video about modelling the cape1:00:50
Learn to model and sculpt a cape for a 3D female assassin in Blender, using edge loops, solidify, masking, and brushes to craft folds and print-ready geometry.
Finishing the hair51:30
Making a lights setup and adding gold material52:34
Learn to set up lighting in Blender and apply a gold material to armor, with HDRI and ambient occlusion for a stylized armored assassin.
Making turntable and shadow plane38:46
Goodbye2:53

Requirements

Intermediate Blender knowledge and Blender

Description

This is probably the most complicated character i have done in Blender.

And i have recorded and narrated every step in real time to make this course!

There is so much talking in this course that you will get sick of hearing my amazing English accent!

But let me tell you a bit about me.

I am Niko and i am 3D character artist and teacher with more than 20000 students in my courses of Zbrush, Blender, Anatomy and 3D character sculpting.

In this course we will make this 3D Female Armored Assassin from zero, only in Blender. The main purpose of this character is to be 3D printed or rendered, but the same techniques can be used to create 3D characters for games.

We will start by making the head, as always, a basic hair and then the body, with me giving some anatomical tips while sculpting.

Following will be the arms, hands and legs where we will also talk about forms, shapes and anatomy. Next we will do something extraordinary by making all the armors from single meshes, which i call 3D cketching, so we can better understand and translate the 2D forms from the concept to 3D.

When we finish all 3D sketches of the armors, we will start making the real armor meshes, by retopologizing the 3D sketches. It will be long and painful process, but at the end it will be worth the effort!

After every gold stripe and armor piece is ready, we can get to making the pose, we will do that by posing only the body, and then we will add and adjust all the armors and stripes after we are happy with the pose.

When that super relaxing and fun process is over, we can finish the hair with the curves, and do lights setup and materials to render our model.

This course is for intermediate Blender users, but beginners who are feeling very lucky and like to feel pain, can try it too :). Of course you can always start with one of my two Absolute beginners courses for Blender first, then some of my Anatomy courses, and then get back to this one :).

I am warning you that in this course there will be stories, drama, action, memories and lots of advices from this wise bearded man with one eyebrow! Even some songs here and there... sorry about that.

And now, go, buy the course and start making this nice lady in 3D :)!

Who this course is for:

All intermediate Blender users who want to advance their 3D character art