Session 1: Introduction and Initial Setup

Session 3: Mapping

In this session, you will add seams to the mesh of the character, add details to the head, handle UV islands, and learn how to paint directly onto the figure.

• Mapping Intro – 00:33
• Adding Seams – 06:41
• Add Detail to the Head – 09:12
• Islands – 06:54
• Painting the Color Map – 13:52
• Painting Details on Head and Chest – 12:52
• More Figure Tweaking – 15:40

Session 5: Advanced Mapping

In this session, you will learn specular mapping techniques, emission maps, creating a normal map from the sculpting to enhance the simpler mesh from the previous section, and much more.

• Mapping Intro (Deja Vu) – 00:37
• Mmmm, Baking Normals – 09:05
• SpeTACular Map – 10:01
• Emit Map – 03:15
• Renderin’ Fun – 05:49
• Touch Up – 05:46
• Removing some Geometry – 04:15

Session 6: Rigging and Skinning

In this session, you will add a complete skeletal rig to the character for animation in later sessions. This rig will include fine motion control handles for making a fist to punch and a reverse foot rig to aid in run or walk cycles.

• Rigging Intro – 01:02
• Building the Rig – 13:27
• Move your Bones – 03:31
• Rig the Fingers – 10:14
• Finger Constraints – 08:11
• Snap to Symmetry – 06:45
• Weight Painting and a Little Script – 16:10
• Reverse Foot Rig – 09:25
• Weighting the Foot – 09:40
• Rig Tweaks – 05:50
• Tweaking the Hand Mesh – 05:01
• Action Constraints – 10:22
• Right Hand Animation – 04:42
• Adjusting Body Proportions – 08:30

Session 7: Animation

In this session, you will make the character come to life as he runs, punches, breathes in a resting position. You will also see how to interact with these movements in Blender’s built-in game engine.

• Animating Intro – 00:33
• Hiding Bones – 01:23
• Animating a Run – 05:53
• Punching Action – 13:46
• Idle Time – 03:13
• Logic Bricks – 08:12
• Fine-tuning the Run – 04:58

Session 8: Rendering

In this section, you will learn how to export game sprites (images) of your animation sequences, automate rendering of 8 different views, and see how they look imported into a program like Flash.

• Rendering Intro – 00:44
• Rendering Sprites – 06:15
• Rendering Around Fixed Angles – 07:33

Session 9: Modeling a Utility Belt

In this session, you will model a bit more, while learning how to add multiple material textures to a single mesh (using UV mapped and non-UV mapped textures), and also use the array modifier.

• Back to Modeling Intro – 00:36
• Adding a Belt – 20:59
• More Belting – 17:52

Session 10: Cycles Rendering & Conclusion

In this session, you will create a special pose for the character to illustrate how to use the Cycles Renderer, a raytracing based render engine with support for interactive rendering, a new shading node system, new texture workflow and GPU acceleration.

• Cycles Intro – 00:38
• Setting up a Pose – 09:54
• Creating Node-based Materials – 13:24
• Goodbye – 00:33