You will need to have some experienced in blender to take this course as I won't be explaining every single click and as we'll be using some advanced technics. We'll be using blender in 99% of the project.

The use of photoshop will be super limited and can be replaced with any other 2D image editing software.

The tutorial includes :

• 74 different vidoes for about 17 hours of course.
• 18 blenders file covering main steps.
• Free CC HDR, free textures given by textures.com, Matcaps, brushes and concepts from Thiago Almeida

This course covers every single step to create a PBR shaded character with animation friendly topology.

• Body sculpting
• Armour and accessories sculpting
• Full retopology
• Detail sculpting
• UVs creation
• Texture creation (baking/painting)
• Shading
• Render and compositing

Chapters :

01-Body sculpting

In this chapter we'll use dynamic topology tools to sculpt our character body with tips to achieve believable anatomy features.

• File overview
• Sculpting tools overview
• Base sculpting of the body

02-Body Retopology

How to deal with character topology to get an animation friendly model.

• Retopology planning and setup
• Retopology of the face
• Retopology of the Body
• Retopology of the hands
• Retopology of the horns
• Eyes and mouth

03-Missing parts and projection

We'll see how to rapidl model teeth and once our character fully retopologied, how to project sculpted details onto the newly created mesh

• Modeling of the teeth
• Eye modeling
• Body projection to multires.

04-Armour modeling

Mixing sculpting and vertex modeling, we'll create each part of the armour.

• Chest plates
• Belt
• Shin guard
• Boots
• Forearm plates
• Shoulder plates
• Dragon shoulder plates
• Fabric and leather parts

05-Sword

Let's try box modeling on this one !

• Sword modeling
• Shield modeling
• Dragon handle
• Leather handle

06-Shield

Mixing sculpting and vertex modeling, we'll create each part of the shield

• Sculpting the base mesh
• Retopology
• Shield accessories modeling

07-Detail sculpting

Let's see how we can detail our mesh now with a final pass of sculpting. Let's understand what technic and tool you will have to use.

• Multiresolution or dynamic topology?
• Straps
• Armour
• Blade
• Shield
• Cloth
• Refining the topology

08-UVs mapping

How to unwrap a character and correctly organise your UV island with both blender default tools and the texture atlas addon for multiple armour parts.

• Character UVs (classic method)
• Equipement UVs (Atlas addon)

09-Texturing

When used properly, blender can be a powerfull texturing software. Let's see how to get informations from our detail sculpting and paint some more details and coulours.

• Textures baking
• textures painting
• Textures combined
• Detailing of the body
• Armour painting
• Armour detailing
• Eyes painting

10-Lighting and shading

Shading is so important as it can break or sublime your character. Let's learn to shade both organic and synthetic materials

• Lighting setup
• Skin shading
• Armour shading
• Leather shading
• Shield and sword shading
• Teeth and eyes shading
• Diamond shading
• Lava effect

11-Render and postproduction

The cherry on the cake