Overview
Learn to create a complete animated shot in Blender from start to finish in this comprehensive 5.5-hour tutorial. Master the process of modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, and rendering a 3D flour sack character, a classic exercise for beginner animators. Follow along as the instructor guides you through each step, including creating body and eye textures, adding hand-painted ambient occlusion and hair, preparing the model for rigging, and animating a double bounce walk. Explore advanced techniques such as shapekeys for eyes, custom properties for eye controls, and volumetrics in EEVEE. Perfect for beginners to intermediate Blender users, this tutorial provides an easy-to-follow workflow for creating a simple yet effective cartoon animation.
Syllabus
Introduction
Modeling
Creating the body texture/shading
Creating the eye texture/shading
Adding hand painted Ambient occlusion
Adding hairs
Preparing the model for rigging
Rigging
Bind the character to the rig
Shapekeys for the eyes
Adding custom properties for the eye controls
Groups, custom shapes and quick fixes
Animating a double bounce walk
Environment, Lighting and polish
Quick compositing
NLA, displacing the character
Volumetrics in EEVEE
Outro
Taught by
sociamix