Blender Character Creator v2.0 for Video Games Design Course

Learn How To Model Video Game Characters. Use The Sculpt Tool To Shape, Add Texture, Rig & Animate Video Game Characters.

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Take your first steps to becoming a 3D character artist - learn everything from modelling to painting to animating the character. The course is the sequel to the highly popular Blender Character Creator course, enjoyed by 10s of thousands of students.

This course has been created using Blender 2.83 and is compatible with newer versions of Blender.

Whether you're a beginner or more advanced, the experienced instructors will take you through every step of the process, ensuring that you aren't just "copy and pasting" what you see, but learning the tools and developing your own creative process as you go. For each concept taught this course includes a relevant challenge for you to implement yourself. You can follow along with the Ogre model used in the course, or create your own character using reference material or your own sketches.

The course will show you how to create a highly detailed, great looking character for your portfolio as well as turning that same character into an asset ready to be implemented into a video game engine.

All students have access to the Q&A forums where our Instructors, Teaching Assistants and Community are ready to help answer your questions and cheer on your success.

What you'll learn in this course:

Create a character from start to finish using Blender.
Block out the basic shape of your character using a standard box modelling approach.
Use the sculpt tools to shape the broad level details of your character.
Use the sculpt tools to add fine details to your character.
Texture paint your character to give it colour and details.
Rig (add bones) to your character so that it can be animated.
Animate your character.
Add your character into the Unity game engine if you choose to do so.

Your Instructor

Grant Abbitt

Grant first started learning Blender back in the late 90’s. He ran a small film company and found the software ideal for some motion graphics work he needed.
He went into teaching as a backup option for when the film work was not so regular. The teaching gradually took over, and he's now been teaching for around 15 years. He moved into teaching game design 6 years ago, which rekindled his excitement for 3D animation. He then began to pick up freelance work and created his YouTube channel Gabbitt Media.
Since then his channel has grown to over 370,000 subscribers, and he's worked on many interesting projects from engineering to 3D printing and creating game models for Atlas Empires.
Now he's here with the GameDev.tv team making courses, and sharing his passion with the community.

Course Curriculum (16+ hours)

Introduction & Setup (1 hours 16 minutes)

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Welcome To The Course (0:50)

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Download & Install Blender (3:26)

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Blender Interface Introduction (10:00)

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Introduction To Edit Mode (8:05)

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Using Loop Cuts (9:05)

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Mirror Modifier (17:18)

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Extrude (14:28)

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Shader Editor (9:02)

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Community & Resources (4:19)

Mech Master (1 hours 24 minutes)

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Section Intro - Mech Masters (0:57)

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Creating the Cockpit (11:19)

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Creating the Body (11:38)

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Creating the Legs (12:12)

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Creating Weapons (11:23)

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Posing the Mech (3:50)

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Smooth & Flat Shading (4:27)

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Adding Materials (11:55)

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Camera & Background (3:46)

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Rotating camera (5:40)

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How to Render and Save Images in Blender 3D (Rendering the Mech) (4:54)

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Instructor Hangout - Mech Masters (2:42)

Modular Vehicles (2 hours 37 minutes)

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Section Intro - Modular Vehicles (1:48)

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Intro to Modules (1:51)

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Building the Base (11:13)

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Building the Vehicle top (7:17)

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Building the Wheels (9:47)

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Creating Car Bases (13:20)

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Tank Tracks (12:06)

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Creating the Tank Base (12:13)

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Making the tank top (13:27)

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Rocket Launcher Top (12:39)

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Making the Triple Gun Top (12:57)

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Making the Laser Cannon Top (9:18)

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The Tripod Base (13:50)

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Texturing the Vehicles (10:12)

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Material Slots (11:26)

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Instructor Hangout - Modular Vehicles (4:05)

Blocking Out (1 hours 38 minutes)

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Section Intro - Blocking Out (1:10)

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Reference & Background Images (5:01)

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How to Insert Background images into Blender 3D (7:33)

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Blocking out the shape (12:39)

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Subdivision Surface Modifier (7:33)

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Sculpting the Blocks (15:02)

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Dyntopo Sculpting (8:24)

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Dyntopo Sculpting Body 1 (8:36)

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Dyntopo Sculpting Body 2 (8:48)

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Sculpting the Head (4:29)

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Combining Objects (9:06)

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Instructor Hangout #1 (9:41)

Detailed Sculpting (2 hours 9 minutes)

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Section Intro - Detailed Sculpting (1:30)

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Mid Level Details - Body (11:34)

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Mid Level Details - Head (10:49)

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Mid Level Details - Horns (14:25)

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Using Alphas (12:34)

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Fine Details (13:43)

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Clothing & Armour - Belt (8:20)

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Clothing & Armour - Loin Cloth (8:35)

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Clothing & Armour - Buckle (7:17)

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Clothing & Armour - Shackle (12:05)

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Clothing & Armour - Sculpting 1 (13:11)

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Clothing & Armour - Sculpting 2 (10:22)

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Instructor Hangout - Detailed Sculpting (5:15)

Retopology (1 hours 3 minutes)

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Section Intro - Retopology (1:06)

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Understanding Retopology (2:57)

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Manual Retopology Demonstration (13:33)

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Automatic Retopology (5:32)

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Automatic Retopology 2 (6:33)

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Automatic Retopology 3 - Tidy Up (7:07)

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Retopology - Small Items (7:27)

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Retopology - Decimate (10:09)

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Instructor Hangout - Retopology (9:21)

UV Unwrapping (1 hours 18 minutes)

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Section Intro - Unwrapping (1:18)

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Understanding UV Unwrapping (14:25)

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Marking Seams (12:22)

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Marking Seams 2 (12:52)

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Unwrapping The Body (15:20)

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Repair Stretching Problems (3:50)

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Unwrapping All Objects Together (12:48)

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Instructor Hangout - Unwrapping (5:51)

Baking (1 hours 5 minutes)

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Section Intro - Baking (1:21)

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Understanding baking & PBR (9:33)

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Baking the orcs body (10:47)

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Baking the orcs body - cavity (10:47)

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Baking the horns & teeth 1 (7:06)

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Baking the teeth & horns 2 (12:01)

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Baking multiresolution objects (9:51)

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Instructor Hangout - Baking (4:21)

Painting (2 hours 4 minutes)

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Section Intro - Painting (1:09)

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Blocking out colours (15:00)

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Orc Body Painting Basics (11:05)

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Different Stroke Methods (7:56)

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Metallic maps (5:52)

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Painting with stencils (7:55)

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Painting With Blend Brushes (12:32)

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Painting The Metal (4:50)

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Painting the Horns &Teeth (10:11)

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Painting the roughness map (16:41)

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Painting the roughness map small items (14:02)

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Other blend brushes (8:51)

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Painting The Eyes (8:28)

Animation (2 hours 16 minutes)

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Section Intro - Animation (1:12)

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The Basics Of Keyframes (9:52)

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Rendering Animations (8:57)

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Understanding Armatures (Bones) (12:10)

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Animating A Snake (5:23)

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File Organisation (5:38)

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Basic Human Rig (9:17)

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Parenting the Basic Rig (6:41)

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The Rigify Rig (15:13)

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Blender to Mixamo (10:36)

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Weight Painting (14:05)

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Exporting the Character (1:27)

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Exporting the Textures (6:12)

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Import Blender To Unity (16:42)

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Unity Animator Controller (12:56)

Updates and Important Messages (0 hours 0 minutes)

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Reviews

Greg Boudreau

"Congratulations team for this amazing course.

I found this course to be a really great way to learn Blender. I did have a little familiarity with the program and 3D beforehand but was pretty lost when trying to do anything before this. They do talk and move fast when modeling and you will need to frequently pause to follow along but I really did find myself picking the program up faster than I expected. "

Jesse D

"Excellent course! Learned alot. Can now create my own assets for unity/unreal!"

Jason

"A Perfect Course for Beginners. Just finishing the sculpting bit and my friend who's a professional 3D artist, says my skills are already better than his. I am very impressed with the results I've achieved in the course."

Leonardo Fadul

"One of the best courses from GameDev, you do learn a lot from this. From a complete beginner to someone who feels comfortable in using Blender and making your own 3D models."

Ernesto Blancas

"Very good course for all those who are either starting with blender or coming from 2.79, one of the things i value the most in the courses are how the instructor explains content, here the instructor is very clear and explains exactly what is he doing and why, which gives the student a better understanding of the all tools available, he even goes back and comment about shortcuts or general things related to earlier lessons which makes sure you don't forget anything essential nor get lost within the lesson which is extremely helpful considering the amount of tools, menus, screens and topics seen through the course."