Character Crafting with Blender for Absolute Newbies

Name: Character Crafting with Blender for Absolute Newbies
Rating: 4.8 (267 reviews)

A 3D adventure through character creation in Blender

Created byNIkolay Naydenov

Last updated 2/2023

English

What you'll learn

Blender for making 3D characters
Sculpting in Blender
Modelling in Blender
Lights and rendering with Blender

Course content

1 section • 24 lectures • 10h 2m total length

Introduction5:56
Learn to sculpt, model, and texture a complete character in Blender, covering tools, head, clothes, features, and essential workflows for absolute newbies.
Blender basics32:15
Sculpt mode basics28:27
Explore sculpt mode basics in blender, mastering navigation shortcuts, x symmetry, transitions between object, edit, and sculpt modes, and shaping a head with grab brush, masking, and remesh.
More sculpting16:58
Starting the rabbit head21:26
Adding ears, eyebrows, hair25:59
Making the body and limbs22:29
Learn to craft the body and limbs in Blender for absolute newbies, using cylinders, symmetry, and a mirror modifier to shape arms, legs, and boots.
Developing palms and shorts22:18
Modeling the jacket20:55
Mask extracting details30:15
Making the big knife22:48
Combining meshes and cleaning the head28:37
Smoothing the pants and jacket32:35
Collar and shorts detailing19:29
Detailing and start coloring35:56
Coloring the eyes and knife33:56
Making a rig and posing the arms34:00
Fixing the left hand34:50
Detailing the jacket and hair38:37
Posing and merging the head24:06
Materials and lights setup26:00
Shadow plan, render and composing in Photoshop23:11
Making turntable presentation in Blender17:09
Goodbye4:25

Requirements

No previous experience of any software required. Only a free Blender installation.

Description

The first couple of lectures are free to preview so feel free to do so :). You can even learn basics of Blender just with the preview lections :).

And the fun starts:

Newbie Niko: I am so frustrated! I dream about learning Blender and make 3D characters with it, but i don't know where to start. It is so hard!

Pro Niko: Relax my man! I am here to help you!

Newbie Niko: Waaaaa! What are you doing in my home! ... doesnt matter! Guys, this is Niko, and he is a professional 3D character artist and educator. He has numerous courses about Blender, Zbrush and human anatomy.

Pro Niko: Thank you for that, Newbie Niko. This course is just for you. We will start Blender from scratch and go trough all tools and actions needed to create this almost cute rabbit character. Modelling, sculpting, basic materials, lighting and render will be covered. So strap on!

We will begin by getting familiar with Blender interface and learning how to model and sculpt in the program and make a basic human head for warm up. Then we will start making the rabbit by working on the head, adding eyebrows, eyes and hair. We will then go and learn how to make the body and the limbs. After, i will point your attention to the hand, which is pretty tricky, but we will get trough it together :). Making the clothes will be the next task on our list and with my help you will do them just fine. We will even make a character prop - a big chef knife, for cutting some huge carrots, i guess. Then we will start detailing, smoothing and coloring the model. When we finish with that, we will make a basic character rig to move and pose the arms and hands, so we can achieve the pose on the concept. Then will be time for some tweaking and fixing, before we start doing the materials and light setup. We will also learn about renders, lights, camera position and even render with transparent background and compose in Photoshop.

At the end as a bonus i will even show you how to make a turntable video of your character.

The course is for Absolute beginners in Blender and character art, but if you are intermediate user and like to make this character with me, you are welcome to do so.

Now i will leave you, because it is time to start the course, see ya there! :)

Who this course is for:

Beginners who wishes to learn 3D character crafting art in Blender