Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

Introduction

• Create an animated character in Blender 2.9
• What you need to know
• Importing reference images

1. Modeling the Character

• Beginning the Loop mask
• Completing the Loop mask
• Pulling the face into 3D
• Adjusting the face and adding the eyes
• Extruding the forehead and top of head
• Creating the back and side of the head
• Extruding the neck
• Creating the ears
• Creating the inner mouth
• Adjusting the lips and extruding the tongue
• Beginning the gums
• Modeling the top teeth
• Finishing the teeth
• Extruding the torso
• Modeling the legs
• Creating the arms
• Creating a finger
• Extruding the hand
• Connecting the thumb
• Extruding the foot
• Finishing the feet

2. Modeling the Clothes

• Creating the shirt
• Modeling the shorts
• Beginning the shoes
• Continuing the shoes
• Finishing the shoe
• Creating the shoelaces
• Sculpting the socks

3. UV Mapping

• Preparing the model for UV mapping
• UV mapping the shirt
• UV mapping the clothes
• UV mapping the legs and arms
• UV mapping the head
• Organizing the UV map
• UV mapping the eyes and teeth

4. Materials and Textures

• Establishing the materials
• Beginning the color map
• Working on the color map
• Generating a normal map in Krita
• Texturing the eyes
• Beginning to texture paint
• Texture painting the skin details
• Painting the freckles
• Painting the shirts stripes

5. Creating Hair

• Beginning the character's hair
• Texturing the hair
• Cutting and combing the hair
• Creating the eyebrows

6. Rigging the Character

• Placing the joints of the rig
• Adjusting the finger joints
• Placing the joints of the face
• Continuing the face joints
• Modeling the eyelids
• Arranging the joints of the eyelids
• Completing the MetaRig
• Adjusting alignment of the rig
• Rig layers and control objects
• Modifying the control objects
• Binding the rig
• Parenting the eyes, hair, and teeth
• Adjusting the character weights
• Assigning weights to the leg
• Finishing the leg weights
• Adjusting the torso weights
• Assigning weights for the fingers
• Assigning weights for the arm
• Adjusting the weights of the face
• Creating a shape key for eye blinks
• Testing the rig

7. Animating the Character

• Setting up the interface for animation
• Beginning the contact poses
• Continuing the contact positions
• More contact positions
• Ups, downs, and planting the feet
• Working on the feet
• Arms, fingers, shoulders, and head
• Animating the wave
• Creating a FaceCam and eye blinks
• Beginning the lip-sync animation
• Continuing with lip-sync animation
• Creating a test render
• Making final adjustments
• Using the graph editor
• Fixing the weights of the shorts
• Adding music and sound FX
• Rendering the final animation
• Conclusion