Reply To: Polybook – FrikkR
JULY 2015 – Short Film Character Production 3-D Piero course
Back to 3-D Blending again and I wanted to start a few long term projects to do in the background whilst I did the shorter ones. As a result, this one is still a WIP (yes nearly a year on! ) , but Ive tried to follow @theluthier Kent Trammell’s advice as closely as possible which meant taking breaks from this course to study other tutorials such as Nathan Veghdals epic Humane Rigging DVD (A must if you want any chance of getting your head around rigging) https://store.blender.org/product/humane-rigging/
Anyway, let me tell you that wow this Piero course is long, and very very in-depth. But everything balances out and what you get out of it is so worth it. If you do any of Kent’s courses, you may sometimes wonder why he goes so far with his work. By that I mean he is so thorough and sometimes you question the point when what he is doing seems to make hardly any difference. But when you see his final result, you soon learn why. This guy really knows his stuff, and it shows in his work….and will do in yours if you stick to his methods and do it the right way. Which is incidentally the Kent way.
All in all, this course is a great way to learn a lot of different workflows and parts of Blender. It covers sculpting, modelling, UV – Unwrapping , texture painting, hand painting UV textures, shading, rendering, rigging, scene building, lighting, material setup, animation and more. There really is’nt much of Blender you wont have explored in great detail when you have this course finished.
Course can be found here : https://cgcookie.com/course/short-film-character-production/1
My current progress :
