Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design

Think outside the box and bring your characters to life with Qubicle, Maya or Blender, and Unity

• Introduction
• Resources to Save Your Day
• Producing Your Voxel Art
• Putting Your Art Out to the World
• Final project

Step into the Voxel art universe, to create your own fantasy character made entirely of 3D cubes with Zach Soares, a self-taught Voxel artist with almost a decade of experience in the field. Start from the very basics and work your way up to creating a full Voxel render from scratch.

Learn how to model, rig, and animate your character, going through scale and color technique, learning Zach’s blocking and animating methodology, and push yourself into a new creative challenge made entirely of 3D blocks.

• About Me
• Influences
• What We Will Do in the Course?
• How to Start: Thinking of Ideas
• Searching for Reference & Organizing Them
• Figuring Out Scale
• Figuring Out Color
• Building Animation References
• Blocking Out Your Scene 1
• Blocking Out Your Scene 2
• Blocking Out Your Scene 3
• Pre-Rigging/Character Testing 1
• Pre-Rigging/Character Testing 2
• Pre-Rigging/Character Testing 3
• Character Rigging 1
• Character Rigging 2
• Character Rigging 3
• Animating in Maya (Transferable Skills to Blender)
• Frame Based Animation Setup 1
• Frame Based Animation Setup 2
• Setting up Your Scene and Lighting in Unity
• Finalizing Your Scene 1
• Finalizing Your Scene 2
• Capturing and Rendering Your Animation/Project
• Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design