Character course creation with Blender and Marvelous Designer Information

Character Course Creation with Blender and Marvelous Designer by Sebastiano is a comprehensive tutorial that guides users through the entire process of creating a stylized character, complete with clothing and rendering techniques.

11 Videos, for a total of 11 hours step by step explained videos with both English and Italian commentary. At the end of the course you will be able to sculpt a stylized character with a complete outfit created in Marvelous Designer, and render with the default Blender render engine: CYCLES.

What You’ll Learn In Character course creation with Blender and Marvelous Designer?

Video 1. BLENDER INTRODUCTION (36m)

• Viewport introduction
• Scene collection
• Object movement, rotation and scale
• Viewport movement, orbiting and zoom
• Blender preferences (interface, system, save and load, add-ons)
• Edit mode introduction
• Vertex, face and edges
• Selection tools and x-ray mode
• Subdivision surface modifier and shade smooth
• Sculpt mode introduction
• Basic brushes and mask
• Remeshing
• Symmetrize
• Join and remesh two or more objects

Video 2. BLOCKOUT (44m)

• Adding image references
• Adding single body pieces
• Mirror modifier
• Hands

Video 3. SCULPTING (1h 15m)

• Head remesh
• Detail sculpting (eyes, mouth, nose, ears)
• Remesh body and sculpting
• Remesh hands and and sculpting
• Join all the body parts

Video 4. RETOPOLOGY (2h 30m)

• Retopology Head and body
• Retopology hands
• Mouth creation
• Multiresolution modifier

Video 5. FIXING THE HANDS (7m)

• Fixing the hand proportions
• Apply multiresolution base shape
• Video 6. RIGGING (37m)
• Adding armature with riggify add-on
• Adjusting bones
• Connecting the rig to the character

Video 7. SKIN TEXTURE AND EYES (52m)

• Skin shader
• Head unwrap and color texturing
• Separate lips shader
• Eyes download and settings
• Parenting eyes to rig

Video 8. PARTICLES (1h 41m)

• Separating shapes
• Weight paint
• Eyebrows
• Particle and children settings
• Adding single hairs
• Eyelashes
• Hairs

Video 9. POSING AND PBR MATERIAL (33m)

• Speeded video of the character pose creation
• Downloading .obj shoes from sketchfab
• PBR material application
• Character transition from t-pose to pose
• Character export in alembic

Video 10. MARVELOUS DESIGNER (1h 23m)

• Download Marvelous Designer
• Interface introduction
• Creating a tshirt
• Material settings and Particle distance
• Simulation
• Skirt creation
• Apply final pose
• Wind control
• Uv creation
• Remesh and export to Blender
• Clothes material PBR and with Blender-kit addon

Video 11. LIGHTING AND RENDER (45m)

• Hdri download and import
• Camera settings
• Illumination
• Render settings
• Photoshop post-production

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