character creation tutorial series…

After making the two clothing tutorials I was excited by the comments and encouragement from other blender users.  I’m certainly happy that some people learned some new techniques.  This encouragement also pushed me to start making a character creation tutorial series, something that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while now.  I’m just starting the process now, but look for the first episode to be posted in a week or two.

My aim is to release one video tutorial per week on vimeo, in full HD, with a length of about 20 minutes.  The videos will walk through the process of creating an anime/toon style character, from start to finish.  There will be some introductory videos, some step by step videos, and probably some time-lapse videos as well.  I’m looking to cover a lot of topics, including; modeling (box, edge, organic, inorganic, lattices), texturing (procedural, maybe nodes), physics (particle hair, cloth simulator), rigging (basic rigs, ik constraints), rendering (lighting, rendering, composite nodes), and animation (walk, run, and maybe a full shot).

This isn’t the first tutorial series that walks through the process of creating a character.  David Ward has a couple of them, which are all excellent videos, and I highly recommend you check them out as well.  However, I do hope to go over some different ways of doing things and just show you a little different work flow.  Ever since I started learning Blender I have always watched/read as many tutorials as I could find, so if anybody is like me this is just another tool for somebody to use.  I’ve also found that making these tutorials really makes me study and understand some of the techniques that I have just used without understanding in the past.  So in a selfish way these are helping me out as well!

Anyway, look for me to update in about a week with the first episode!