Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design

Overview

“Now that we have the idea(s) we want to build off of, we can start to gather references. Gathering references can sometimes take you minutes and other times take you months. Personally, I’ve been gathering references for almost a year to create this piece. If you’re working in a new genre or are looking to explore outside of your comfort zone, give yourself the time to study your references. That may be by sketching or by looking at them obsessively until you understand what you like or dislike about it, take your time. ”

In this video lesson Zach Soares addresses the topic: Searching for Reference & Organizing Them, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design. Think outside the box and bring your characters to life with Qubicle, Maya or Blender, and Unity.

Partial transcription of the video

“Searching for reference & Organizing them In this lesson, I'll be showing you how to look for your references. It's a straightforward process, pretty much every artist does this. References are there to help you, so don't worry, I'll show you how to organize it. Let's get into it. This is PureRef. This is what use for building all of my references. On iPad and on mobile, there's a tool called VizRef that you can download as well. That one's for purchase, but PureRef is free. I recommend you use PureRef for any reference documentation you wanna do on images, even notes for your images th...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Voxel Art for Character Design

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 24 lessons (5h 13m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Blender, Maya, Qubicle, Unity 3D

• Areas

  3D, 3D Animation, 3D Character Design, 3D Modeling, Character Design