It's a comprehensive Blender course that ends with exporting the rigged character with baked PBR textures to Unreal Engine. Throughout the course, there are many interesting Blender tips and tricks that you won't find anywhere else.

Both modeling and sculpting techniques are explored, as well as how to create materials using both textures and procedural techniques.

We learn how to model and sculpt muscles, clothes and facial features. As well as how to retopologize these for a low poly version that we can bake the details and materials to (for use in a game).

We start by blocking out the character and exploring various sculpting techniques. 

You'll learn how to create the various body parts, like the hands, the various features of the face, stylized hair and more.

We also look at how to model and sculpt musculature. Although most of the body will be covered by clothing, it's still good to know how to do this.

With a combination of modeling tricks and sculpting tools (and reference of course, always use reference!), it's easy to create muscles.

Then we get into modeling clothing, with various technical challenges like making this kind of cloth wrapped around a character.

And of course we then also create materials for these clothes. We use a combination of procedural effects and (free) textures to get the best of both worlds.

The high poly model is great for developing the look we want, but it will be quite dense, which is not convenient for rigging and UV unwrapping.

So next we'll learn various methods for creating the lower poly version that is intended for exporting to our game engine.

We also look at how to make stylized materials using procedural node groups for interesting edge wear and occlusion effects. these custom node groups are included as downloads for you to use.

You don't need any paid add-ons or other software besides Blender to follow along, but in some cases I have shown also alternative workflows with paid add-ons.

Which can be important to know if you want to do this kind of thing for a living.

For example, I show how to do retopology manually, and also using Blender's built in atuto-retopology tools, as well as paid auto retopology add-ons like Quad Remesher and OkTopo Remesher. Another commercial add-on demonstrated (but not required) is Auto-Rig Pro.

You can choose for yourself whether you want to follow the free or paid add-on workflow.

Before you can export to your game engine of choice, it's important to bake the materials (wchich use Blender-specific procedural node set-ups) to simple to use PBR texture maps.

In these lessons, we'll learn how to bake for example the Normal map, as well as the other important maps, and how to troubleshoot baking issues.

I promise not to use kitchen related jokes.

I know that Blender versions are often a concern for new Blender users, because it seems like Blender changes all the time.

But honestly, since Blender 2.8 the UI has remained pretty much the same, with some small changes here and there.

I've used Blender 5.0.1 during the recordings of the course, but you can use an older version if you're more comfortable with that.

If there's something you can't find in the UI, let me know and I'm certain I can show you where to find it!

Buckle up - creating a character like this can take quite a while. I recommend just taking one lesson at a time per day, and then practicing what you've seen.

There's over 13 hours of lessons, and I've divided them into reasonable chunks (10-20 minutes each). So if you're busy during the day, you can just do one lesson in the evening.

So let's say there are 60 lessons, then you can spread them over 60 days. Or more, or less, if you prefer!

It's fine if it takes you several months to complete. Speed comes with experience, I recommend aiming at being satisfied with the result first.

• Sculpting (learn how to use different methods: Voxel remesh, Multires and Dyntopo, learn useful shortcuts)
• Creating clothing (modeling and sculpting, using sculpt brushes as well as cloth simulations)
• Modeling (retopology techniques, how to model hands, faces, clever methods to use the built in remeshing to save time)
• Materials (download my custom node groups to create procedural materials that enhance your materials)
• Painting (learn how to make skin look more realistic)
• Baking (baking the details and textures of the high poly character to a UV unwrapped low poly version that we make along the way)
• Rigging (learn how to rig the low poly version using built in tools in Blender)
  

Although you can theoretically sculpt with just a mouse, you will get a lot more out of this course if you have a pen tablet. Even a cheap one is better than nothing.

And for sculpting in Blender it does help to have enough RAM (For reference, I have 32 GB and my PC is quite old, but that's good enough for sculpting. I would recommend at least 16 GB of RAM.)

My name is Jan and I'm the creator of this course. 

If you're not familiar with who I am, I'm a 3D artist with over 9 years of experience.

I started my 3D career in 2017 doing 3D modeling and rendering as a freelancer for various clients. and I've always enjoyed sharing what I've learned with concise tips.

That's why I created an e-book called Blender Secrets, as well as several video courses for Blender.

Recently some gamedev friends invited me to work with them, and I'd love to share with you what I learn in this field as well.

So this is the first course I've made that's really aimed at making a character for video games.

Feel free to ask me anything in the comments under the videos of the course. I'll do my best to help.

If you missed the early bird sale, you can get a considerable discount by buying this course as part of a bundle. These can be found on 3DSecrets.com/bundles, including a character bundle which combines my character courses for a lower price. Click here to read more about the bundles.