This is a course aimed at intermediate Blender users who want to learn how to create characters, and have some experience with modeling and sculpting.

If you are a beginner Blender user, I recommend the "Anime Girl" character course instead. In fact, this is a good follow-up if you already did that course.

It covers the creation process from start to finish of a "fantasy hero" character.

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, for example).

• 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.)

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 10 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 50 lessons, then you can spread them over 50 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.

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!