hey guys n gals i found and watched through a tutorial i found about character creation, this is a perfect tutorial for beginners.. it takes you through as the title says "THE STRUCTURE OF BLENDER". From starting out to texturing to rigging to animation.. I thoroughly recommend you watch these if you are serious about learning.. THE STRUCTURE OF BLENDER
I was playing with makehuman and blenders hair particles today and came up with our good old friend MONK
ok you have built your model/ character and rigged it now you want it to talk well the following 14 video tutorial by alex telford is a great introduction to how to create a phoneme library in blender using shapekeys, bones and drivers ... its a must watch, it was published in 3d world, so it is awesome build and use a phoneme library in blender i give this tutorial a 10 star rating
so lets say you have your character in blender, which you could download from anywhere off web (as long as licence allows it) or created your own in blender, how do you make it move.. well you need an armature (or more commonly known as a rig). but your looking at blender and thinking .. wtf do i do. well the following 3 tutorials are a beginners guide to rig making note: these are not my tutorials Introduction to Rigging Part 1 Introduction to Rigging Part 2 ...
in this blog i will be showing off different things i will be testing with the latest release of blender which at the moment is 2.62, to all that know me, when i started with blender and the release version then was 2.49 so blender has come a long way since then with new addons, new implementations it is fast becoming a movie making tool in its own right. i will also be posting tutorials which i recommend to learn blender but to start the blog off here is a little intro ...