From the course: Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

Create an animated character in Blender 2.9

From the course: Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

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Create an animated character in Blender 2.9

- [Darren] Hi, I'm Darren Lyle and welcome to this course where you'll learn how to create an animated character in Blender 2.9. This course uses only open source software, Blender and the paint program Krita to create an animated character from the first polygon to the final rendered animation. And here is that short animation that we're going to create with dialogue, sound effects and music that we'll add in Blender's video sequencer. It's a cute little character for a children's animation. Here it is. (cute music) - Hi, I'm Corey. Come on. Let's play. (cute music) - [Darren] So we'll begin by first bringing in the reference images of the character and use blenders modeling tools to create the face with proper edge flow for animation. We'll create the hands, the feet and the clothes. And when the modeling is done, we will UV map all the parts of the character and we will use that UV map for our texturing. In the texturing phase, we will use Krita to create the textures for the clothes and Blender's own texture paint tools to paint the details of the skin. You'll learn how to use blenders particle system to create cut and comb the characters hair and then we'll use Blender's Rigify rigging system to set up the bones of the character. We will bind the character to the rig and adjust the weights to improve the deformations. And when all of that is done we will begin animating the character. You'll learn how to set up a reference video in Blender's interface, how to animate character movements and how to create lip sync animation for a dialogue track. In the end, we will add the music and sound effects and then render the final animation to a video file. If you've ever wanted to create your own 3D animated character, then this course is for you. Using all open source software, this course goes through every step of the process. So join me and learn how to create an animated character with Blender 2.9.

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