Let's make a short animated film featuring a stretchy, stylized and cartoony character! All the way from initial sketch to the polished end result.

I've often searched for knowledge on how to make a stylized character from scratch, especially the face rig, that is stretchy and flexible. One can find a lot of tutorials about realistic human figures and how to make them and their face rigs, but stylized is a whole another case. So I made this course, it's something I would like to get for myself.

The main purpose of this course is to inspire people to make short character animations from scratch. It's not that hard, just dive in and learn how to do that. Learning to do all of this is also a very good foundation for making just about anything else, I would say.

I used Blender 2.93 so using that is the safest bet, but you should be able to follow the course with Blender 2.83+ and Blender 3.0 also.

Instructor:

Manu Järvinen - 3D Artist, Animator and Illustrator

What you'll learn:

Sketching characters in Krita
Sculpting a cartoony characters face
Retopologize the sculpt, so that it's deformable/animatable
Rig the face with cartoony, stretchy bendy bones
Model the body of the character
Rig the body of the character, again with stretchy bendy bones
Animate the character and do the lipsync
Model a simple environment
Create simple materials for all surfaces
Light the scene with simple lights
Composite the final renders to look even better
Multiple tips along the way for all of these topics

Requirements:

Free and open-source Blender 2.93 and Krita, no third-party plugins required.

Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate:

In order to follow this tutorial, some prior modeling, shading and animation skills in Blender may be required. But rigging is explained like you were a complete beginner. And, if you don't understand something, just send me a message and I'll make sure that you understand and provide maybe an additional video so that you truly understand. I can also put out those new explaining videos into the course for others to see who are stuck in the same situations.

Bonuses:

The animation and the rig .blend files (CC-0 license)
Normal-speed versions of the videos, because I use some timelapses in the main videos and you might miss something

Instructor:

Manu Järvinen - 3D Artist, Animator and Illustrator

What you'll learn:

Requirements:

Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate:

Bonuses:

What the artists say?

Creative Shrimp

Essential Elephant

Check out Colorbox

For more information,
visit Gearnoodle.com

Instructor:

Manu Järvinen - 3D Artist, Animator and Illustrator

What you'll learn:

Requirements:

Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate:

Bonuses:

What the artists say?

Creative Shrimp

Essential Elephant

Check out Colorbox

For more information, visit Gearnoodle.com

For more information,
visit Gearnoodle.com

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