Free Guide for Designing 3D Characters

Do you want to learn to create reference images for developing your 3D characters? Check out this guide

When it comes to illustrating hand-drawn sketches to convert into playful 3D characters, animator, illustrator, and director Laurie Rowan (@laulrowan) knows the importance of searching for and learning how to use inspirational resources to guide your creative process.

In 3D characters illustration, you need to learn how to turn hand-drawn sketches into 3D rendered images. Laurie shares a guide with his personal approach to character design to help you discover new sources of inspiration and explore your imagination when building your characters and sets.

In this resource, you will find Laurie’s approach to 3D character design: from the concept phase through gathering inspiration and the final reference image.

Laurie lets you into his personal process: creating a mood board using reference criteria such as form, personality, color, texture, and style, then turning this inspiration into hand-drawn sketches.

By clicking the button below, you will find a file in .pdf format in the Downloads folder of your computer, with the Free Guide for Designing 3D Characters, by Laurie Rowan.

This download will only be available until December 13, 2021. If you want to access the material after that date, you can sign up to Laurie’s course, Creative 3D Characters with 3ds Max.

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