Introduction to the Creation of Characters and 3D Modelling with Maya

Overview

“In this part of the course, we will create different characters using everyday objects. Through observation, we will emphasize the main characteristics to give them life, adding facial features and expressions. Later we will choose the character with whom we will work and we will realize the views that will help us later so that at the moment of modeling, we already have planned how we want it to be seen from several angles.”

In this video lesson Cecilia Meade addresses the topic: Creating a character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to the Creation of Characters and 3D Modelling with Maya. Learn to bring your characters from paper to a new dimension.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Music] Now for our project we are going to create our character and this will be a robot. Since although it is very complex with basic forms we can create something very interesting and this will serve us in the process of modeling and construction. Let's start drawing and what first we're going to do going to be looking at references from different sources to see the characteristics that have these. Let's start to trace while we look at the references and choose some characteristics that most draw our attention for our design. [Music] Well here I already have several options and I'm going...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to the Creation of Characters and 3D Modelling with Maya

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (119)
• 2254 students
• 5 units
• 18 lessons (2h 43m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop, Maya

• Areas

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