BLENDER ANIMATION CHARACTER LICENSE

I’m not a rigging artist, so solving how I was going to rig the character from the beginning was very important. It’s a small thing but I think it makes Iris more interesting. One of the things that came from that approach was the heavy bags under the eyes. That became a reference point for colors and design. I imagined the story for the character and tried to design her look, poses, and colors around that story. In terms of material design, I fell in love with a piece of art by Rayner Alencar which didn’t become a direct reference but more like a spiritual inspiration. And each time I came back to her, I stuck to the basics – anatomy and appeal, trying to learn and apply as much as possible. Over the past 6 months, I re-designed, re-built, and re-rigged Iris 6 times in total and worked on her in between other work I was throwing myself into. The process of building Iris has been a special one, and this project has kind of become a symbol of where I am as an artist. Only then can you start building materials and textures. From that design sculpt, you need to construct a functional version of the character via retopo and hand modeling. The sculpt geometry is only used to design the character. Referencing good topology and patience will get you to the finish.ĭeveloping the sculpt for a project like this is only the starting point. This is less a difficult process and more of a puzzle-solving one. The model has to be constructed, reconstructed, and weight painted in a way that lets it deform well. I’ve got a folder of almost 100 different renders of Iris, at different stages of sculpting and refining.Īdditionally, there’s some technical hurdle: retopology and actually rigging the character. You can ‘cheat’ because you only need the model to look good in a specific pose, sometimes only from a certain camera angle.Ī lot more time is put into polishing the design making sure that the mouth and facial features look good from every possible angle and work when the characters face deforms. Building a still sculpt allows you a little more freedom in terms of shape language. Features of Fully Rigged Charactersĭeveloping a character for animation is a bit different from just creating a cool character sculpt in ZBrush because the character needs not only to look good from every angle but also in many different poses and expressions. As a secondary goal, I wanted to release Iris as a downloadable character to try to fill that void a little bit. The ability to try out different things without fear of a deadline let me be super creative.Īdditionally, I’m learning character animation because there are very few easily accessible characters to animate with in Blender. This exploratory learning process was just exactly what I needed. I wanted to create a character that was super expressive and could fit into different roles with different clothing or hair. All the steps along the way were going to be a learning process. I don’t have a lot of experience as a character artist, so I made my primary goal as comprehensive as possible: I wanted to go through the entire process of creating an animation-ready character from scratch – аrom sculpting to retopo to materials to rigging to rendering. Knowing I needed a fun project for myself, I jumped into building a character.

BLENDER ANIMATION CHARACTER LICENSE

The rig is free to use, provided that the you respect the CC-BY license and include the credit: Snow Rig © Blender Foundation | years in motion/graphic design, I was getting burnt out in 3D. blend and will auto-run when opening the file. No add-ons required! All required scripts are included with the.Designed with newcomers and pros both in mind.Layered face controls with shape key correctives.Stretchy IK toggle for the limbs and spine.IK/FK toggle and snapping for the limbs.The rig includes all the basic features you may be used to from Rain or our other production rigs: Choose Object > Library Override > Make.The Collection should appear instanced in the Viewport.Make sure 'Instance Collections' is enabled.

Go to the Collections and select CH-snow.Choose File > Link and browse the character file Put your 3D cursor in the Origin of your scene.Snow is a generic character rig you can use to learn and practice your animation skills, created by us here at the Blender Studio.

Blender animation character