Ultimate Blender guide: Make low poly characters in 3D!

learn to build a simple low poly humanoid character in blender by blocking out a sphere head, shaping verts and edges, extruding limbs, and applying a mirror modifier for symmetry.

Learn to rig a low poly humanoid in Blender by building an armature, weight painting, and exporting to Unity, then apply and loop free animations with an animator controller.

Learn to build a low-poly humanoid character in Blender by creating the head, neck, torso, limbs, and five-fingered hands using edit mode and a mirror modifier.

Learn to turn a basic Blender base model into a low-poly military character by modeling clothes—t-shirt, pants, boots, helmet—and refining with mirror, clipping, and color for cohesion.

Learn to build a new rig from scratch for a low-poly military character in Blender, including bone setup, weight painting, parenting, and exporting to Unity.

Learn to build a simple low-poly Spartan character in Blender using a cube base, x-axis mirroring, extrude tools, and orthographic shaping of head, torso, arms, and legs.

Add armor to the Spartan by duplicating pieces, shaping a waist skirt and helmet with bevels, edge loops, and mirrored alignment.

Apply cloth physics to armor, skirts, and cape in Blender, enable collisions, and pin pieces to create drapery for a Spartan character.

Create a simple low-poly female character in Blender by adjusting proportions, extruding limbs, and refining edge loops to achieve a streamlined humanoid form.

Create a female low-poly Spartan-style soldier by modeling armor pieces, refining edges, and adding a helmet, then color materials and explore cloth effects for future rigging in Blender and Unity.

Create and rig a Spartan soldier in Blender by building an armature, extruding bones for spine, limbs, and fingers, parenting the mesh to bones, and posing a battle-ready stance.

Master weight painting and cloth fixes in Blender by editing weights with the control tab, trimming bones, mirroring cape, and solving cape and skirt collisions for a natural drape.

Build a central bone and full limb skeleton in Blender, naming left and right bones, and applying rotation constraints.

Learn to fix mirrored armature, recalculate bone roll, and constrain limbs for a low-poly female Spartan character in Blender, then weight and pose with automatic weights.

Build a simple low-poly crusader in blender, sculpting a helmet and chainmail body with subdivision, extrusion, and a mirror modifier. Add gauntlets, cape, and boots using wireframe and edge loops.

Learn to build a low-poly crusader knight in Blender, refining cloak, belt, armor, and gauntlets with wireframe editing, modifiers, and color for a clear crusader design.

Build a low-poly crusader knight in Blender, adding cloth physics, pins, and collision for realistic movement, then model a sword, shield, and detailed armor with basic materials.

Model a low-poly Japanese samurai in blender, starting from a cube, then mirror, extrude, and edge loops to craft the helmet and armor on the body.

Create a low poly samurai body in Blender, add an Oni-inspired mask and neck and chest armor, and refine edge loops, mirroring, and extrusions for clean, cohesive geometry.

Construct and refine a samurai arm and sleeve in a Blender low-poly workflow, duplicating body parts, shaping armor, and extruding edges for a cohesive knuckle-guarded limb.

Create a low-poly samurai body in Blender by editing, mirroring, and extruding helmet pieces, then color and texture armor, sash, sword, and skin.

Design a footsoldier from a samurai build by swapping armor, adjusting color schemes, and mirroring and duplicating pieces in blender to produce quick, low-poly character variations.

Create a low-poly samurai with a top-knot in blender by duplicating and refining mesh, shaping hair, and aligning edges, then add a second sword for a foot soldier variant.

Learn to build a first apartment block in blender with simple blocks. Use snap mode, set the origin to the bottom, and add a door with an edge loop.

Create a detailed door block by adding edge loops, adjusting with orthographic view, extruding and scaling in edit mode, and mirroring with clipping to finalize a ready-to-use door component.

Duplicate and move the door and cube to create a second layer, then shape a half-cube into a window using edge loops, scaling, and extruding window panels.

Duplicate the base window, mirror it for symmetry, then bevel edges and adjust the shapes to create a new, more detailed window variation for the low-poly build.

Bevel the door frame and stairs to create angled edges that catch light and enhance shadows; use Ctrl-B to bevel edges and refine faces for a more detailed door.

Add roof blocks with a ridge to cap the building blocks and include a rainwater pipe. Use extrude and edge edits to refine faces and create corner roof blocks.

Create a corner rooftop block in Blender by duplicating pieces, snapping to vertex grid, extruding and scaling along the z axis, and filling gaps to produce a seamless roof piece.

Learn to build a roof corner block in Blender by duplicating, shifting, and rotating an L-shaped piece, then refine with edge loops and knife tool for a clean low-poly rooftop.

Organize a low-poly house by viewing all objects across layers, duplicating blocks, and aligning windows and rooftop pieces on the x and y axes, with 90-degree rotations.

Create a new material called base building paint, assign it to blocks, link colors across the model, and tailor rooftop, window frames, window glass, and doors for a cohesive look.

Join window and roof pieces into a single Blender object, align the origin, then duplicate, rotate, and mirror components to build multi-section buildings while adjusting normals for correct shading.