Creating a Game Character in Blender

Create a game character with Blender's free 3D toolset, while you build your modeling, sculpting, and texturing skills.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• What you should know before watching this course
• Basic interface options and shortcuts in Blender

1. Getting Started in Blender with the Base Mesh

• Setting up image planes
• Blocking out the leg
• Adding the mirror modifier
• Adding edge loops and smoothing
• Blocking out the chest and hips
• Blocking out the arms
• Blocking in the back and neck
• Blocking out the hands and duplicate fingers
• Blocking out the hooves

2. Using Retopo to Make a Low-Poly Head

• Using Dyntopo in sculpting mode to make a base mesh on the head
• Using retopo to make the head base: Part 1
• Using retopo to make the head base: Part 2
• Adjusting the low-poly head mesh
• Adding horns to the character

3. Sculpting the Character Forms

• The multiresolution modifier
• Setting up the sculpt menu
• Laying down clay strips to define form in the body
• Sculpting the hands
• Finishing the hand and sculpting the head

4. Creating the Lower Poly Version of the Character

• Duplicating the mesh and creating low and high variations
• Reducing the polygon levels
• Cleaning up the scene
• Creating an accessory for the minotaur

5. UV Unwrapping the Figure and Adding Materials

• Using the Relax add-on script
• Overview of Blender unwrapping basics: Part 1
• Overview of Blender unwrapping basics: Part 2
• Combining the UV elements into one UV space

6. Making the Normal Maps

• Exporting the models
• Baking normal maps in xNormal
• Baking normals in Blender
• Applying normal maps

7. Texture Paint

• Overview of the texture paint mode and brushes
• Painting the figure base colors
• Painting the figure details
• Reviewing the final painting details

Next Steps

• Goodbye