Stylized 3D Character creation in Blender

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

1. Welcome to the course

2. Download and install Blender

3. 3D Character creation pipeline and steps

Chapter 2. Finding and setting up Reference images for viewing

1. Collecting and using reference images

Chapter 3. Sculpting. Blender’s sculpting toolset. Sculpting the character

1. Intro to sculpting and sculpting tools in Blender

2. Dynamic topology and symmetry tools

3. Quick overview of other sculpting tools

4. Most important sculpting brushes

5. QUICK VIDEO Essential shortcuts for sculpting

6. Creating the character blockout

7. Refining the shapes and merging the parts

8. Body sculpt guide

9. Sculpting the body

10. Modeling the hand

11. Sculpting the face and head

12. Sculpting the hand

13. Refining, correcting and merging parts

Chapter 4. Retopology. Modeling clean character meshes. Modeling clothes and hair

1. Retopology basics

2. Head and face retopology. Start

3. Head and face retopology. Finish

4. Arm and hand retopology

5. Retopology of the rest of the body

6. Optimizing and finishing the retopology process

7. Creating base clothes from body meshes

8. Modeling the shirt. Adding details to clothes

9. Modeling inner mouth objects. Teeth, gums and tongue

10. Creating hair using curves

Chapter 5. UV Unwrapping

1. Introduction to UVs. Why we need UVs

2. Creating UV maps

3. Editing UV maps

4. Preparing our character model for UV unwrapping

5. UV Unwrapping our character model

6. Editing and optimizing character UVs. Improving the eyes

7. QUICK VIDEO. Creating and unwrapping eyelashes

Chapter 6. Texturing materials. Painting and baking textures

1. Quick intro to shading and materials in Blender

2. Introduction to Texture Painting in Blender

3. Texture painting brushes and their properties

4. Using textures and texture masks in Texture Painting

5. Painting and using black and white textures

6. Baking textures

7. Multiresolution modifier. Sculpting and baking small details

8. Baking node setups

9. Creating and baking Ambient Occlusion maps

10. Creating and baking Curvature maps

11. Texturing the Character. Preparation

12. Sculpting small details on the character using Multires modifier

13. Baking mesh data (sculpting details and node setups) onto texture maps

14. Painting the character’s face texture

15. Creating materials for smaller parts of the character

16. Painting the character’s clothes

17. Creating a fancy hair shader

18. Enhancing and finalizing the materials for the character model

19. Packing and unpacking textures

Chapter 7. Presentation. Rigging and Posing the Character. Lighting and Rendering

1. Basics of skeletal deformation and character posing

2. Facial expressions with shape keys

3. Creating a basic character rig with Rigify

4. Rigging the eyes, the hair and other parts

5. Posing the character with the skeletal rig

6. Posing and facial expressions with shape keys

7. Creating the final pose

8. Lighting and scene setup. Fixing some issues

9. Setting up the camera and rendering

10. Final touches

Chapter 8. Next steps

1. Next steps