How to Make a 3D Game Character | Blender

in this video I'm going to show you how I create 3D game characters so unless you're making a character with a lot of flat faces like a robot you're going to want to use the subdivision modifier so in the modifiers tab I add the mirror modifier with clipping enabled and the subdivision modifier with a viewport level of two so creating the model is essentially just a lot of extruding or adding Loop cuts to faces and then scaling moving and rotating those faces here's the shortcut keys for those actions [Music] so once I've modeled the entire character I apply the subdivision modifier with a levels viewport of one because I still want the character to be reasonably low poly since I will be using him in a game now in edit mode I start adding his cosmetics now before I can texture him I need to UV unwrap him so I decided to UV unwrap him in the mirror mode which means that anything I paint will be applied to both sides of the character and it also allows for more UV space I am wrapped in by using UV project and then just move the UVS around to better fit so you can paint the entire character on one texture or you can split the textures up by assigning mesh to different materials which is what I decided to do because I want to change the color of the fog skin with a node now in texture mode add a base color texture and leave the default size because you can always decrease the texture size later so texturing the character I usually like to start by adding the details I want like this pattern on the skin and then painting imperfections which could just be different colors on the material and then usually the last step is to add shadows and highlights so same again with his stomach I add some chest and belly details and then add highlights and shadows and same again with his arm wraps except I use the line tool here to paint the details and highlights [Music] [Music] also a quick tip when you're adding Shadows you're going to want to change the blend mode to darken and when you're adding highlights you're going to want to change the blend mode to lighten [Music] foreign [Music] add-on is enabled then press shift a and create the human MetaBank then just delete all the bones you don't need and then rotate and move those bones to match your mesh also you can delete and mirror one side of the Armature by clicking on Armature then symmetrize so that's it obviously this wasn't a beginner friendly or in-depth tutorial but hopefully it was helpful let me know in the comments if you want to see more videos like these also don't forget to like And subscribe and stay tuned for my next Dev vlog

Channel: DomE

Views: 77,154

Keywords: blender, design, gamecharacter, unity, modeling, texturing, rigging, lowpoly, blender3d, 3dcharacter

Id: H4A0WDC9T7k

Length: 3min 36sec (216 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 13 2023