3D Character Design: From Drawing to Modeling

Detailing the Character 2

A course by Segun Samson , Visual Development Artist

100% positive reviews (47)

1,479 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Detailing the Character 2

Overview

“We've reached the final stages of our character design! In this lesson, I'm going to demonstrate how to accessorize and individualize your character, to give them some personality. I will illustrate this by developing a 3D model of Ewa's guitar. ”

In this video lesson Segun Samson addresses the topic: Detailing the Character 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: 3D Character Design: From Drawing to Modeling. Give a new dimension to characters by creating your protagonist in Photoshop before giving it depth and volume with ZBrush and Maya.

Partial transcription of the video

“Detailing the Character I'm back and what I did was make the hair and duplicate it around like that. Duplicating vertically is a lot easier and looks a bit different. There you have it. Here, I merged the face and the mouth. With the Move brush, I'll move it to fix the smile Now, we have our final design. It looks cute. Now, we'll create the guitar. To create the guitar, I'll use the shapes, alter them, and move them around differently. I'm going to start with the cube. That's good enough. I'll add a sphere. It's always nice to work with shapes. They make your work easy. In ZBrush or any 3D...”

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Course summary for: 3D Character Design: From Drawing to Modeling

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (47)
1479 students
4 units
19 lessons (4h 38m)
9 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Maya, ZBrush
Areas
3D, 3D Character Design, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Segun Samson

A course by Segun Samson

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Visual Development Artist

Segun Samson has been working as a visual development artist with a focus on character design for over eight years. His love for animated movies, comics, and video games began when he was a child, and it's what motivated him to start creating his own characters and worlds as a profession. He is a self-taught artist who learned through mentorship classes and online art courses. He landed his first full-time job working as a comic artist for one of the biggest films in West Africa and hasn’t looked back since.

He has worked for companies like Triggerfish Animation, Lantern Books, Dreamcast Animation Studio, Gamsole, Genii Games, Flaunt Production (Monster High: Electrified), and Sunrise Productions (Jungle Beat: The Movie).