Ultimate Blender 3D Character Creation & Animation Course

Ultimate Blender 3D Character Creation & Animation Course
Last updated 11/2022
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz

Learn 3D character creation & animation in Blender 2.8 with this A-Z course great for beginners and all levels of skill

What you’ll learn

By the end of the course, students will be able to fully make, rig, texture and animate 3D characters including how to make them talk

By the end of the course, students will learn the ins and outs of making characters, rigging them, animating them, making their own sounds for their animations!

Requirements

All you need to do is download Blender which is free and then grab your mouse and keyboard and join me on this adventure!
Description

Overview

Lecture 1 How to Watch The Course In 1080p

Lecture 2 Downloading & Installing Blender 2.8

Lecture 3 Blender’s Interface & Buttons

Lecture 4 Navigating in Blender

Lecture 5 How to Manipulate Objects in Blender

Lecture 6 Edit Mode & Manipulating Geometry

Lecture 7 How to Add Objects

Section 2: First Character Animation Cube Boy

Lecture 8 ALL .Blends For The Course

Lecture 9 Modeling Our First Character

Lecture 10 Adding Materials to Our Character

Lecture 11 Making The Eyes & Mouth

Lecture 12 Animating Our Character

Lecture 13 Parenting & Empties

Lecture 14 Making Our Character Walk

Lecture 15 Adding Shapekeys to Animate The Face

Lecture 16 Animating Our Character & The Ball

Lecture 17 How to Squash & Stretch Using A Lattice

Lecture 18 Animating Our Camera & Rendering Our Animation!

Section 3: Second Character Animation Caterpillar

Lecture 19 Second Character Modeling Array Modifier

Lecture 20 Animation Using Curves

Lecture 21 How to Add Textures

Lecture 23 Lighting Our Scene Using HDRI

Lecture 24 Animating The Camera Along A Path

Lecture 25 Rendering Our Second Animation

Section 4: Third Character Animation Wooden Mannequin

Lecture 26 Using Reference Images

Lecture 31 Texturing Our Character

Lecture 32 How to Rig Using Armatures

Lecture 33 How to Setup Ik Constraints

Lecture 34 Making Custom Shapes From Bones

Lecture 35 Making Our Scene Modeling A Book

Lecture 36 Making Our Scene Modeling A Pencil

Lecture 37 Adding Textures to Our Scene

Lecture 38 Modeling Miscellaneous Items For Scene

Lecture 39 Finishing Putting Together Our Scene

Lecture 40 Adding A Second Character

Lecture 42 Animating Our Character Automatic Keyframes

Lecture 43 Animating Our Character Standing Up

Lecture 44 Viewport Rendering Animation

Lecture 45 Blocking Animation Looking Around

Lecture 46 Making The Walk Cycle

Lecture 47 Blocking Animating Walking to Girl

Lecture 48 Animating The Arm Switch

Lecture 51 Animating Characters Interacting

Lecture 53 Making the Female Walk Animation

Lecture 54 Finishing Blocking The Animation

Lecture 55 Viewing Our Blocked Animation

Lecture 56 Animating Our Camera

Lecture 58 Tweaking & Fixing Our Scene

Lecture 59 Adding In Secondary Movements

Lecture 60 Animating The Lights

Lecture 61 Adding Depth of Field

Lecture 62 Finalizing Our Scene

Lecture 63 Speed Tweaking

Lecture 66 Rendering The Animation

Lecture 67 Adding Sound to The Animation

Lecture 68 Turning Our Animation Into Final Movie

Section 5: Fourth Character Animation Human Character

Lecture 77 Making The Main Rig

Lecture 78 Creating Our Hand & Finger Rig

Lecture 79 Creating Our Finger Rig Using Drivers

Lecture 80 Setting Up Our Foot Rig

Lecture 81 Rigging With Pole Targets

Lecture 82 Rigging With Weight Paint

Lecture 83 Making The Eye Shape Keys

Lecture 84 Creating Mouth Shape Keys

Lecture 86 Creating The Skin Material

Lecture 87 Creating The Leather Material

Lecture 88 Using Seams to Unwrap

Lecture 89 Adding The Shirt Material

Lecture 91 Making The Hair Material

Lecture 92 Making The Eye Rig

Lecture 93 Making Custom Shapes For Bones

Lecture 94 Making Drivers For Our Eye Shapekeys

Lecture 95 Making Drivers For Our Mouth Shapekeys

Lecture 96 Setting Up Our Scene

Lecture 97 Animating Our Character Getting Up

Lecture 98 Animating The Ground

Lecture 99 Pose Library Updates

Lecture 100 Pose Library

Lecture 101 Using Dope Sheet For Animation

Lecture 102 Animating Color Changes

Lecture 103 Animating The Second Cube

Lecture 105 Finishing Blocking The Animation

Lecture 106 Adding The Second Pass Animation

Lecture 112 Tweaking Animation

Lecture 113 Speed Tweaking

Lecture 114 Animating Multiple Cameras

Lecture 115 Lighting For Our Scene

Lecture 116 Building The House

Lecture 117 Making A Cube Pyramid

Lecture 118 Animating Our End Scene

Lecture 119 Using Shapekeys to Fix Deformations

Lecture 120 Setting Up Our Scene For Rendering

Lecture 121 Rendering The End Scene

Lecture 122 How to Make & Record Sounds

Lecture 123 Rendering The Final Animation

Section 6: Fifth Character Animation Alien Talking

Lecture 124 Making Our Fifth Character

Lecture 125 Animating Non Proportional Eyes

Lecture 126 Blocking Out The Alien Head

Lecture 127 Blocking Out Alien Body

Lecture 128 Modeling The Arm & Hands

Lecture 129 Modeling The Legs & Feet

Lecture 131 Adding The Teeth & Tweaking

Lecture 132 Using Append to Add Materials

Lecture 133 Adding Our Armature

Lecture 134 Applying Our Alien To Armature

Lecture 135 Rigging The Eyes

Lecture 139 Making The Eye Shapekeys

Lecture 140 Adding Drivers For Our Shapekeys

Lecture 141 Recording Our Voice Sound

Lecture 142 Making The Custom Shapes For The Bones

Lecture 143 Pose Library Updates

Lecture 144 Creating Libraries For Lip Sync

Lecture 145 Lip Sync Animation

Lecture 146 Blocking The Body

Lecture 149 Animating The Character

Lecture 151 Animating The Eyes & Tweaking

Lecture 152 Finishing Animating Our Alien

Lecture 153 Setting Up The Scene & Rendering

Lecture 154 Congratulations & Thank You!

Section 7: BONUS SECTION Character Animation Cute Ball Character

Lecture 155 Modeling Our Character

Lecture 156 Rigging Our Character

Lecture 157 Texturing Our Character

Lecture 158 Animating Our Character

Lecture 159 Rendering Out Our Animation

This Blender 3D course is for anyone who wants to learn the ins and outs of character creation and animation. It’s great for absolute beginners, intermediate and even more advanced users,This course is not for someone who already knows all the ins and outs of Blender