Join The Ultimate 3D Animated Character Creation With Blender Course

Ram, currently leading Crossmind Studios, is an Animation Film Designer with 20 years of experience in the industry. During his career, he worked with clients like National Geographic, FromSoftware, Samsung, Sony, and many more. In addition to his animation work, he's also a passionate animation film design teacher.

The Animated Character Creation in 3D using Blender course is aimed at beginners, who often find themselves lost after delving into 3D software and want to learn how to make animated characters from scratch. This is why the course covers everything from the basics, from object modeling to the final result, guiding through the entire process. By the end of this course, you will understand all the aspects involved in creating 3D characters and how to utilize this knowledge to craft your animated stories.

It doesn't matter whether your goal is to create characters for animations, illustrations, motion graphics, music videos, or even your own YouTube channel, this course is suitable for everyone, featuring over 10 hours of content spread across 20 chapters.

Some of the chapters are up on YouTube for free and you can check it out as a demo, however, the premium edition unlocks the full course, including the complete process from modeling, UV, shading, rigging overview, rigging with Rigify, weight painting, props manual rigs, Pose Library setup, animating walk cycles, creating cloth simulations, making a background with Geometry Nodes and Procedural Shaders, lighting, final rendering, and compositing. Additionally, it comes with bonus content including project files, animated scenes, and other benefits.

What to expect in the premium edition:

• 10 bonus chapters, making it more than 80 lessons spread across 20 chapters.
• Video lessons downloadable in QHD format for offline uninterrupted viewing
• Over 10 hours of videos packing more than 40 hours of material
• All blender files per lesson
• Complete character rig
• All animated scenes from the trailer
• Rendered animated character sequences
• Free future updates to this course

Now, what exactly will you learn? The course kicks off with the basics of topology, a fundamental concept crucial for crafting character models suitable for animation, whether it's for realistic or low-poly characters.

Chapter 2 dives into modeling the character's head, followed by the torso and limbs in chapters 3 and 4. By the end of chapter 4, you'll have a complete character body model, but there's more to come.

In chapters 5, 6, and 7, you will craft all the models for the character's attire and accessories, including a t-shirt, jacket, shorts, shoes, glasses, cap, hair, bands, bag, and others.

Following that, you'll delve into cleaning up and preparing the UVs of the character for the texturing process. You'll create a simple hand-painted texture for the character and enhance it with eyes and hair shaders. The subsequent chapter will focus on clothes and props, combining simple shaders with downloaded PBR textures and a few hand-painted details. The last chapter of the first segment involves creating a turnaround presentation of the character with lighting and a simple background, rendered using Cycles.

In the second part, you'll advance the character by creating a rig for future animation. Beginning with a basic overview of rigging, you'll learn to utilize Blender's Rigify to create an armature. Chapter 14 involves generating the rig and working with automatic weights to set up the entire character. Chapter 15 provides a brief introduction to operating a rig, covering concepts such as IK, FK, controllers generated by Rigify, customization, and control during animation.

The final rigging chapter will address skinning issues using weight painting tools for smooth skinning. After that, you'll create a custom rig for props like a bag and cap, employing constraints for automatic follow-through animations based on the character's motion. You'll get to explore various poses and expressions to understand how the Pose Library works.

Towards the course's end, you'll learn walk cycle basics and make one for your character, add expressions, eye blinks, secondary motions to props, and clothes with physics. Lastly, the final chapter involves creating a simple rendering setup for the animation, followed by concluding remarks.

Check out the works of other students who completed the Animated Character Creation in 3D using Blender course:

This course is ideal for those who have mastered the fundamentals of Blender. It will help you to surpass the basics and utilize the acquired knowledge to handle progressively intricate projects.

There's also a Discord server for the Crossmind Creative Community, where you can contact the teacher directly and join a community of like-minded Blender artists. Get assistance, share your progress, and enhance your learning experience!

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