Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
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Welcome to the Free Stylized Character Masterclass, everything all in one place for you to finally learn how to create your own 3D characters.This video will walk you through everything we are going to be covering in this masterclass & also some important things to remember before starting the masterclass.Your Action Item: Share the Stylized Character Masterclass with a friend.
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Choosing Your Concept you'll learn how to choose the right concept for your stylized character. We'll look at what makes a good reference and how to select a design that is clear and beginner friendly because starting with a strong concept makes the entire character creation process much easier.Your Action Items:
Download Pureref: https://www.pureref.com/download.php
Choose from over 70+ character concept art: Character concept Pinterest board
Download my final concept & references: Click here to download the project files
Checkout Jennifer Park (character concept artist): Jennifer Park's Instagram page.
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Blocking Out Your Character you'll learn how to block out the basic shapes of your character in Blender. We'll focus on simple forms that help establish the overall proportions and silhouette because a strong blockout creates the foundation for everything that comes next.Your Action Items:
Download the fundamentals demo character blockout: Click here to download the project files
Download my final character blockout: Click here to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Sculpting the Face you'll learn how to sculpt the face and head of any stylized character using very simple sculpting techniques. The face is the most expressive part of the character and often the main focal point so we want to make sure we get this right.Your Action Items:
Download my final character face sculpt: Click here to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Sculpting the Body you'll sculpt the body of the character while maintaining clean proportions and stylized forms. This is an important part of the process because a well sculpted body helps the character feel balanced and believable.Your Action Items:
Download my final character body sculpt: Click here to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Sculpting the Cloth & Accessories you'll sculpt the cloths this includes shirts, trousers, skirts and shoes, using both modelling and sculpting techniques, at this stage we are starting to define the character's style and identity.Your Action Items:
Download the fundamentals cloth references: Click here to download the reference files
Download my final character cloth sculpt: Click here to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
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In this Chapter - Introduction to Retopology you'll learn all the fundamentals you need to know about topology before we start retopologizing our character. I'll show you what retopology is and why it is important for preparing your character for every other part of the character creation process.Your Action Items:
Download my final character face retopology: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Retopologizing the Body you'll retopologize the body of the character using all the same techniques we learnt from the last chapter. At this stage we want to make sure that we have good deformation topology that allows our character to deform properly when posed or animated.Your Action Items:
Download Blender's Human Base Meshes Asset: https://www.blender.org/download/demo-files
Download my final character body retopology: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Retopologizing the Cloths & Accessories still using all the same techniques we learnt from previous chapters you'll retopologize the cloth of your character to create clean, usable topology.Your Action Items:
Download my final character cloth retopology: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
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In this Chapter - UV Unwrapping you'll learn how UV unwrapping works and you'll learn how to properly UV unwrap any character and get your character ready for shading and texturing.Your Action Items:
Download my final unwraped character: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Hair Grooming you'll learn how we can take the placeholder hair that we sculpted/modelled earlier and turn that into stylized strand hair using blender's geometry node hair grooming workflows.Your Action Items:
Download the fundamentals hair reference collection: Click here to download the reference files
Download my final character hair groom: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
All Project files, Links, and Resources are below the videos for each chapter. Be sure to bookmark this page so you don’t lose your access.
In this Chapter - Shading & Texturing your Character you'll learn how we can finally start bringing our characters to live with very simple shading and texturing workflows and techniques.Your Action Items:
Get the PolyHaven Addon: https://polyhaven.com/plugins/blender
Below you can copy the script I mentioned in the video to automatically rename the Object Data Names of your objects.
Download my final character shading & texturing: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
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In this Chapter - Rigging & Posing your Character you'll learn how rigging works and how you can use rigify to rig your character, a how we can create poses with the rig we created.Your Action Items:
Download my final character rig & poses: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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Free stylized character MasterClass - Learn
How To Create Your Stylized 3D Characters
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In this Chapter - Lighting & Presentation you'll learn how to beautifully present your character that you have spent a really long time working on. This stage is the most crucial step so slow down here and really take your time with it.Your Action Items:
Download my final lighting and rendering setup: Join the Stylized Character Academy to download the project file
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