Blender 2.8 - Hard Surface Character Creation

What you will learn

• subsurf modeling to create the parts of the character (Helmet, Mask, Chest Armor)
• creating realistic metal and glass materials with simple node setups (Black Metal, Grey Metal, Silver Metal, Black Glass)
• adding objects with emission shader as lighting around the character
• setting up the camera and create some quick renders to find your favourite camera angle
• creating a high quality 4K render with Blenders path tracing render engine Cycles

Instructor

Merlin Peppler - Founder of CGI-Guy, Sci-Fi Nerd and 3D Artist @ CREATE 3D

Software needed

• Blender 2.8 or beyond (available for free)

Recommended skills

• navigating in 3D Viewport
• difference between Verticies, Edges and Faces
• usage of Modifiers (Mirror, Subsurf)
• usage of Perspective and Orthographic Views

Bonus

You will receive my original .blend file with the finished project.

We will use blueprints with original dimensions as a reference for creating the 3D model.

These blueprints were only created for this course and are not available anywhere else.

I also suggest that you search for other reference images online to get an idea of what we are creating in detail.

Everything I used to create this course

Assets (Free Licence)

• Music: Olympus by Ross Bugden (Soundcloud)
• Fonts: Bebas Neue by Ryoichi Tsunekawa (dafont), Star Jedi by Boba Fonts (dafont)
• Intro / Outro / Notifications: Designed by RKMFX (Youtube) edited by CGI-Guy

Assets (Licensed)

• Music: Blast by EdRecords (Bensound)

Software (Open Source)

• Blender 2.8 by The Blender Foundation (3D Modeling)
• Open Broadcaster Software by Jim (Video Capturing)

Software (Licensed)

• Vegas Pro 14 by MAGIX Software GmbH (Video Editing)
• ERA-D by Accusonus (Audio Editing)

• Class Trailer
• Class Intro
• Modeling The Helmet - Episode 1
• Modeling The Helmet - Episode 2
• Modeling The Helmet - Episode 3
• Modeling The Upper Mask - Episode 1
• Modeling The Upper Mask - Episode 2
• Modeling The Upper Mask - Episode 3
• Modeling The Upper Mask - Episode 4
• Modeling The Upper Mask - Episode 5
• Modeling The Upper Mask - Episode 6
• Modeling The Bottom Mask - Episode 1
• Modeling The Bottom Mask - Episode 2
• Modeling The Chest Armor - Episode 1
• Modeling The Chest Armor - Episode 2
• Final Modeling Tweaks - Episode 1
• Final Modeling Tweaks - Episode 2
• Final Modeling Tweaks - Extra Chapter
• Creating Materials - Single Chapter
• Light Setup - Single Chapter
• Final Render - Single Chapter