Kawaii Character Creation in 3D with Blender
Basic materials
A course by Yasmin Islas Domínguez , Animator Specialized in 3D Modeling and Character Design
Joined July 2019
About the video: Basic materials
Overview
“It's time to color your character. I'm going to explain how materials and textures work so you can create your own for your character.”
In this video lesson Yasmin Islas Domínguez addresses the topic: Basic materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Kawaii Character Creation in 3D with Blender. Learn to design, model, and render characters with adorable features from scratch and share them with the world .
Partial transcription of the video
“Basic Materials In this lesson, I will teach you how to set up and configure materials to your character. It’s important to understand the difference between materials and textures. A material is a real life thing, something that has different properties, for example, if it's shiny, if it's reflective, if it's metallic, and all these things. While a texture is an image that gives color to a material. So, a material may or may not contain textures. When adding a material in Blender, you have several options. But don't think that it's like "add wood material" or "add ceramic material" or some...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Kawaii Character Creation in 3D with Blender
-
Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Blender -
Areas
3D Modeling, Character Design, Digital Illustration, Manga, Traditional illustration

Yasmin Islas Domínguez
A course by Yasmin Islas Domínguez
Yasmina Islas, known on social media as Yasmini, is a Mexican animator and illustrator. She studied digital animation at the SAE Institute in Mexico and character design at Berlin's Pictoplasma Academy.
Her personal style is heavily influenced by both kawaii and nature. Although she uses predominantly pastel colors, she likes to experiment with other tones and shades as well as a variety of techniques to keep things interesting.
She is specialized in character design and 3D modeling in Blender and has collaborated with various animation studios across Mexico including Flaminguettes, Memoma, and Pictoline. Among her client list are names like Giphy and Adult Swim.
- 99% positive reviews (693)
- 24,202 students
- 17 lessons (3h 23m)
- 24 additional resources (10 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever