Blender 3D - From Zero to Your First Character!

Model the robot head in Blender by creating a UV sphere eye, center the origin for accurate mirroring, then build a horizontal mouth from a rotated cylinder and add subdivision.

Learn to model robot’s body in Blender, center scene on the x axis, shape a cube with loop cuts, apply subdivision, and add an inward extruded strip for detail.

Model the robot hand in Blender 3D using a sphere for the wrist and a modified cube for the palm, then bevel edges, and adjust proportions.

Model the robot hand fingers by creating a single phalanx from a modified cube and cylinder, bevel its edges, then copy and join to form the full set of fingers.

Finish applying blue and black materials to the robot’s body and joints using edit mode, face selection, and assign. Then transfer materials to hand objects with link materials and save.

Learn how to check and adjust object pivots and origins in Blender by repositioning pivots, using the 3d cursor, set origin options, and testing rotations at joints.

Learn how to create object parenting in Blender, making the head, eyes, mouth, and other parts follow a parent during transforms, using selection order, shift-clicks, and Ctrl P for parenting.

Create sequential poses for the robot at frames 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125 by adjusting body, head, arms, and hands, generating keyframes for all objects, then review playback.

Create a character collection and model the head from a cylinder with 16 vertices, align to front and side references, bevel the top edges, then grid fill the hole.

Model the character's mouth by building the oral cavity with edge loops and insert faces, mirror the geometry, adjust vertices for a neutral mouth, and save incremental files.

Model the face features by shaping a nose, eyes, and eyebrows from a subdivided cube with a subdivision surface. Align the geometry to the reference using x-ray and orthographic views.

Model the lower part of the hair by duplicating head polygons, separating them into a new object named airbase, and adjusting thickness with the solidify and subdivision modifiers.

Model the character's legs in Blender from the torso, using eight-sided limb construction, a mirror modifier, x-ray view, and loop cuts to extrude and shape from a reference drawing.

Model the fingers by creating cylinders, adjusting vertices, inserting segments, and using vertex connections to refine joints and prepare the hand for animation.

Model the character's shoes in blender by duplicating the selected polygons and separating them into a new shoes object. Inflate the geometry slightly and extrude along normals to add thickness.

Create a shirt model in Blender 3D by copying initial polygons, extruding edges, adding loops, and refining with solidify and subdivision for a natural fit.

Learn to fix symmetry issues in Blender by correcting misaligned central vertices with the mirror modifier, using single-vertex corrections or bulk alignment via median point and axis scaling.

Learn to create and assign clothing materials in Blender, applying blue pants material and red and white shirt materials with stripes, and use smooth shading with multiple material slots.

Learn to create an armature for animation in Blender: transform a cube into a sausage, build bones with extrusion in edit mode, and prepare for posing in pose mode.

Learn to set up vertex groups for an armature by weight painting in Blender, using empty groups and automatic weights, selecting bones in the 3D view, and enabling auto normalize.

Explore weight painting tools to assign vertex groups to model vertices using the draw and blur brushes, adjusting weight, radius, and strength, with symmetry and falloff options.

Create a metarig skeleton for rigging with Rigify, using a dedicated rig collection centered at the 3d cursor, apply transforms before generating the rig, and delete face and pinky bones.

Position the arm and hand bones for the metarig, aligning shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Use orthographic front view and volume snap to place finger joints and set the arm bend.

Learn to visualize bone axes, adjust the row parameter to align the x and z axes for phalanges, copy settings across fingers, and set Rigify rotation to X manual.

Master Rigify arm controls to pose hands: enable finger layers, rotate and scale finger controls, use IK and FK modes, and lock forearm axes for natural, flexible animation.

Transfer weight paint from the character body to clothing in Blender using nearest face interpolated and by-name source. Apply the armature modifier and test poses to verify deformation.

Learn how to create and animate shape keys to build facial deformations and expressions in Blender, including editing modes, proportional editing, and keyframe animation.

learn to create shape keys for a character's facial expressions in blender 3d, starting from a base to mouth open, horizontal stretch, compression, smile, sadness, and teeth open, with symmetry.

Create a facial control rig with bones for eyes, eyebrows, and mouth that drive shape keys and expressions through vertex group influence, enabling unified control.

Customize the facial rig by replacing bone shapes with curve-based objects for user-friendly controls, then assign a circle curve to eyebrow bones, eye bones, and mouth bones in pose mode.

Learn how to use bone constraints to restrict facial rig controls in local space, using limit location constraints, effect transformer, and copied settings for consistency.

Configure drivers to control mouth shape keys via a control object in local space, using multipliers and inverted expressions on x and y axes for four expressions.

Create the final video in Blender 3D by setting up lights and a camera, organizing them in a dedicated collection, and enabling ambient occlusion for a natural render.