Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters

Style

Before you begin to imagine how your character would look, the style you’ll aim for has to be defined. In this case, let’s opt for a cartoony look. The reason for this is that while you’ll learn the full animation process, we don’t want to make Jim so complex that his animated character is hard to achieve. So for learning purposes, Jim will have smooth shapes without too many details.

We’ll keep him simple, but we still want him to look cool. You can go for something more realistic, something dark, or even kind of abstract; just decide ahead of time and create some drawings, or find some photos or other materials to help you determine his style, as this will be essential to how the character ultimately looks.

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