A complete guide to creating usable, realistic game characters with two powerful tools Creating viable game characters requires a combination of skills. This book teaches game creators how to create usable, realistic game assets using the power of an open-source 3D application and a free game engine. It presents a step-by-step approach to modeling, texturing, and animating a character using the popular Blender software, with emphasis on low polygon modeling and an eye for using sculpting and textures, and demonstrates how to bring the character into the Unity game engine. Game creation is a popular and productive pursuit for both hobbyists and serious developers; this guide brings together two effective tools to simplify and enhance the process Artists who are familiar with Blender or other 3D software but who lack experience with game development workflow will find this book fills important gaps in their knowledge Provides a complete tutorial on developing a game character, including modeling, UV unwrapping, sculpting, baking displacements, texturing, rigging, animation, and export Emphasizes low polygon modeling for game engines and shows how to bring the finished character into the Unity game engine Whether you're interested in a new hobby or eager to enter the field of professional game development, this book offers valuable guidance to increase your skills.

Learn to use Blender to create your own 3D characters for animation and video games. About This Video Build a 3D character model in Blender Bake a normal map in Blender In Detail Ever wanted to create your own 3D characters for games and animations, from the first polygon through to the final rigged character? This is the opportunity to build your skills by learning through an interactive and engaging course. In this course, you'll explore all about 3D modeling in Blender. You'll begin by creating a base mesh of the character in Blender, understanding how to create the head, body, hands, and feet. Next, from this base mesh, you will create the character's clothes, using Blender's sculpt tools to form creases and folds. You will also UV-map the character in Blender and get to grips with creating a unified UV map that can be used to develop texture maps in external paint programs such as Krita. You'll even discover the technique of painting textures for hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. The course will then guide you on how to bake a normal map in Blender to capture high-resolution sculpt details and apply them to a lower poly model. In later sections, you will rig the character in Blender and adjust the weights so that it deforms credibly during the animation. The course will only focus on open source software, such as Blender and Krita to help you create a character that is ready for animation in Blender and ready to be imported into any 3D game engine such as Unity and Unreal. By the end of this course, you will have learned how to effectively create exciting characters in Blender for games and animations. Downloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for this course on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Blender-Character-Creation-for-Games-and-Animation . If you require support please email: [email protected].

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Master the Newest Blender Techniques for Creating Amazing 3D Characters: From Design and Modeling to Video Compositing Now fully updated for Blender 2.78b and beyond, Learning Blender, Second Edition, walks you through every step of creating an outstanding 3D animated character with Blender, and then compositing it in a real video using a professional workflow. This edition covers the powerful new selection and modeling tools, as well as high-efficiency improvements related to other parts of the project such as texture painting, shading, rigging, rendering, and compositing. Still the only Blender tutorial to take you from preproduction to final result, this guide is perfect for both novices and those moving from other software to Blender (open source and free software). Author Oliver Villar provides full-color, hands-on chapters that cover every aspect of character creation: design, modeling, unwrapping, texturing, shading, rigging, animation, and rendering. He also walks you through integrating your animated character into a real-world video, using professional camera tracking, lighting, and compositing techniques. The rich companion website (blendtuts.com/learning-blender-files) will help you quickly master even the most complex techniques with bonus contents like video tutorials. By the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to create outstanding characters for all media–and you’ll have up-to-date skills for any 3D project, whether it involves characters or not. Learn Blender’s updated user interface, navigation, and selection techniques Create your first scene with Blender and the Blender Render and Cycles render engines Organize an efficient, step-by-step pipeline to streamline workflow in any project Master modeling, unwrapping, and texturing Bring your character to life with materials and shading Create your character’s skeleton and make it walk Use Camera Tracking to mix 3D objects into a real-world video Transform a raw rendered scene into the final result using Blender’s compositing nodes Register your product at informit.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

Let this in-depth professional book be your guide to Blender, the powerful open-source 3D modeling and animation software that will bring your ideas to life. Using clear step-by-step instruction and pages of real-world examples, expert animator Tony Mullen walks you through the complexities of modeling and animating, with a special focus on characters. From Blender basics to creating facial expressions and emotion to rendering, you’ll jump right into the process and learn valuable techniques that will transform your movies. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Add Blender to your Unity game development projects to unlock new possibilities and decrease your dependency on third-party creators Key FeaturesDiscover how you can enhance your games with BlenderLearn how to implement Blender in real-world scenariosCreate new or modify existing assets in Blender and import them into your Unity gameBook Description Blender is an incredibly powerful, free computer graphics program that provides a world-class, open-source graphics toolset for creating amazing assets in 3D. With Mind-Melding Unity and Blender for 3D Game Development, you'll discover how adding Blender to Unity can help you unlock unlimited new possibilities and reduce your reliance on third parties for creating your game assets. This game development book will broaden your knowledge of Unity and help you to get to grips with Blender's core capabilities for enhancing your games. You'll become familiar with creating new assets and modifying existing assets in Blender as the book shows you how to use the Asset Store and Package Manager to download assets in Unity and then export them to Blender for modification. You'll also learn how to modify existing and create new sci-fi-themed assets for a minigame project. As you advance, the book will guide you through creating 3D model props, scenery, and characters and demonstrate UV mapping and texturing. Additionally, you'll get hands-on with rigging, animation, and C# scripting. By the end of this Unity book, you'll have developed a simple yet exciting mini game with audio and visual effects, and a GUI. More importantly, you'll be ready to apply everything you've learned to your Unity game projects. What you will learnTransform your imagination into 3D scenery, props, and characters using BlenderGet to grips with UV unwrapping and texture models in BlenderUnderstand how to rig and animate models in BlenderAnimate and script models in Unity for top-down, FPS, and other types of gamesFind out how you can roundtrip custom assets from Blender to Unity and backBecome familiar with the basics of ProBuilder, Timeline, and Cinemachine in UnityWho this book is for This book is for game developers looking to add more skills to their arsenal by learning Blender from the ground up. Beginner-level Unity scene and scripting skills are necessary to get started.

Learn to create game characters with Blender 2.8 and Unity About This Video Animate a 2D face with Grease Pencil Create animation cycles for a video game Export characters and animations from Blender 2.8 to Unity Develop C# script in Unity to control a game character In Detail Creating game characters and bringing them to life is made easier with Blender 2.8. Explore the full spectrum of features, along with useful tips and techniques through this interactive course. You'll learn to create a game character, export it to Unity, and configure it so you can control it in the game engine. Beginning with modeling, you'll use Blender 2.8 to build all the individual pieces of a Lego character. Next, you'll understand how to UV-map each of the parts, and then create an efficient, unified UV map of the entire character. You will use Blender's texture painting tools to create the character's clothes and the Sculpt tools to create high-resolution details of the hair. You'll then explore how to bake a normal map in Blender and apply textures to the character model. As you progress, you'll work on rigging the character. You'll begin with a single bone, and create the rig manually, building the character rig from the ground up. You'll then create a Foot Roll Rig and discover how to use Blender 2.8's new process for creating custom shapes to control the character. Once the rig is complete, the course will introduce you to an exciting technique - using Blender 2.8's new Grease Pencil tools to animate both a 2D drawn face and a 3D body at the same time. With this technique, you'll be able to develop the character's Idle, Run, and Jump animations, ready for use in a game engine. From exporting the character, animations, and textures out of Blender through to bringing them into the Unity game engine, you'll be able to learn systematically. In addition to this, you will get to grips with setting up the character in the game and retargeting third-party animations on to your character, using Unity's Humanoid Rig system. Finally, you will write C# script to incorporate your 2D and 3D animations, and get the character running around the level. By the end of this course, you will have developed the skills you need to create interesting game characters with Blender 2.8. Downloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for this course on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Blender-2.8-Game-Character-Creat...

A new world of creative possibilities is opened by Blender, the most popular and powerful open source 3D and animation tool. Blender is not just free software; it is also an important professional tool used in animated shorts, television commercials, and shows, as well as in production for films like Spiderman 2. Lance Flavell's Beginning Blender will give you the skills to start shaping new worlds and virtual characters, and perhaps lead you down a new professional path. Beginning Blender covers the Blender 2.5 release in-depth. The book starts with the creation of simple figures using basic modeling and sculpting. It then teaches you how to bridge from modeling to animation, and from scene setup to texture creation and rendering, lighting, rigging, and ultimately, full animation. You will create and mix your own movie scenes, and you will even learn the basics of games logic and how to deal with games physics. Whether you are new to modeling, animation, and game design, or whether you are simply new to Blender, this book will show you everything you need to know to get your 3D projects underway.