Model, UV, and Texture a Complete Manga Character in Blender – Day 3

on Nov 4th 2009 with 25 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Blender
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 2 Hours
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Complete Manga Character In Blender

Creating a 3d character that is equipped to be animated is one of the most challenging things you can do in CG, and to make matters worse, it has always been equally challenging to find any comprehensive tutorials on the entire workflow. Well not any more! In this 7 video long, intermediate to advanced level tutorial series, professional Blender artist, Karan Shah, will walk you through the complete creation process of a ready to animate video game character. From modeling, to UVs and texturing, to adding the final mesh topology for deformation, this series is a must see for any Blender character artist!

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Video 7: The UVs

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Video 8: The Textures

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Karan Shah is a 3D Artist and Animator from India. He is a BFA Graduate with specialization in sculpture (traditional). An inclination towards the digital medium made him a self taught computer artist. He is a currently freelancing..  

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  • Nixon

    Hi there Mister Shah,
    fabulous series:)
    the UV part is very concise and i’m sure it will help other users very much, the same as it helped me. Also the intro on texture paint in blender, baking the Ao map in advance and taking it into the gimp for the diffuse texture is very informative. I will use your advice wisely and have to say I’m very grateful for that tutorial!
    Thanks a lot and best regards from Berlin!

  • Aardvark

    Loved this tutorial. It was straightforward and very ueseful.

    Thank You!

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    good input

  • Ranjit

    very great tutorial.
    can’t wait for the rigging and animating part.
    Ton of Thanks Guru Karan Shah

  • Timothy

    what more can i say… but MORE!!!

  • Timothy

    Mr Karan Shah will there be a rigging and animating part?

  • Tim

    how about a gundam tutorial?

  • http://s============= William

    Excelente tutorial de low poly, me ha servido de mucho…
    muchas gracias y espero poder ver mas.

  • RaphaelK

    Hey thank you so much!!
    I’ve been looking for this since i get to use blender for the first time.

    Sure there is some character tutorials , but no one about the manga/anime style.

    This is awesome, as it helps on every aspect of creating the model to texturing.

    Hope that an rigging / animating part comes out too, but thanks again for this one!

  • FullerN

    quite beautiful, i will recommend this tutorial to other people!

  • Marcin

    Great tutorial! Thaks! I watched all parts and i have done that same model!
    Greetings!

  • http://URL(Optional) Nick

    Thank-you! Managed to complete this very comprehensive tutorial and in the process, have become much more familiar (and quicker) with the Blender, dare I say – quirky interface.
    Kind regards

  • http://ardonart.com Angel Lopez

    WOW! this is my four day whit your tut, Excellent! And i am working with 2.5.1 version. No problem at all. I never used 2.49b I just star to used Blender two months ago, and I am hook.

    Tell you, it is very hard to find tuts like yours, or better, there are not around.
    I looked for days, until I fund this lessons.

    I am hungry for the next step. My model is a character of my own, and its just great to see him becoming alive. Thanks a lot!

  • Kurt

    I am completely and utterly impressed at how thorough you were with all of this! You even said you wouldn’t really go through the GIMP part, but you for the most part did.

    I’m sure you would have no trouble writing a book about blender. ;)

    One question though, when I export to an obj, do you know of any model viewers that I can use to just take some screen shots of my finished model?

    Thanks!

  • akhilleos – Brazil

    thanks! good job!

  • Gganstar

    This is AWSOME man!!!!!!!! Thanks alot

  • Ragnatic

    Great tutorial.

  • lovareth

    thnx 1000000000000000x times for your great tutorial!
    this is really great!!!!!!!!!
    easy to understand for a beginner like me…
    yep, others also think the same!!
    im really appreciate this!..
    hehe..

  • ahmed

    I’m trying to download the videos’ tutoriel.
    however I can’t , a Not found Page appears .
    please help me

    • http://www.badgrenola.com Matt Brealey

      Hi Ahmed,

      I’ve just double checked the tutorials and the downloads seem to be working fine here – it might have been a temporary thing! If you can let me know if you still have any problem, I’ll chase it up and see what I can do :)

      Cheers!

      Matt

  • Nicholas

    How do you select edges loops without pressing Cntrl + E Menu? do you have a macro keyb or something..

    • http://www.tennx.org Francisco Barrera

      I guess he did Alt+RMB on the edge flow.

  • http://megaangkasa.co.cc MegaAngkasa

    Thank you very much, i love it… ^^

  • http://robbyardan.blogspot.com Blitzx

    Thank you very much, i like ur post. awesomeeeeeee…*twothumbs for you
    have you make this character move (in animation)? like walking, talking, jumping, etc.
    if you did it, please make the tutorial about it..pleasee :p
    Thank you

  • abeing

    Thank you very much for this great tutorial!
    Its the best I ever have seen!