Character Modelling & Rigging in Blender - Unreal Engine 5

Learn to Model, Rig & Animate in Blender — Unreal Engine's Sequencer — Humanoid Character Rigging & Animation

3.70 (185 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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3D & Animation

What you will learn

Learn 3D Modelling, 3D Rigging & 3D Animation techniques in Blender

Learn the tools and master the skills to fully model, rig and animate 3D characters

Learn to setup cameras to capture the action in Blender and transfer to Unreal sequencer

Learn the character rigging process and apply these new skills rigging your own characters

Master the entire production pipeline from Blender to Unreal engine

Learn to export characters, animations and cameras directly into Unreal engine without issue

Render animations from sequencer in Unreal Engine

Learn the steps in creating a walk cycle action for your character

Master the shortcuts and smart workflows to accelerate your character creation

All this inside the free and open source software Blender & Unreal engine

Why take this course?

Welcome to Character Modelling & Rigging in Blender 3 & Unreal Engine 5 – the complete 3D character creation course, the only course you’ll need for Character Modelling, Character Rigging and Character Animation in the free and open source software blender & Unreal Engine 5. Learn 3D Modelling, 3D Rigging & 3D Animation techniques in Blender.

This highly rated course has had great success teaching students on Udemy!

Packed with hours of video training this comprehensive course teaches students the entire pipeline of character creation. This course will have you successfully 3D modelling and rigging characters.

Here’s how:

The course is taught by a top instructor with almost 100,000 students
Get experience using the very basic tools right through to the more advanced
Highly detailed course explaining the entire character creation workflow
The curriculum has continuously being developed through student feedback
Save yourself time & money by learning the smart workflows for character creation

This course takes you step – by – step through engaging video tutorials and teaches you to 3D model, rig, texture and animate a humanoid character in the free and open source software blender & Unreal Engine 5.

This comprehensive course covers a great deal that include:

The detailed 3D modelling process of the character
UV unwrapping the entire character and getting it ready for texturing
Creating materials in Blender & Unreal engine
Rigging and creating controls for the character
Creating a walk cycle animation for use in both Blender & Unreal engine
Create an animation in Blender
Importing all the Assets into Unreal Engine
Create an animation in Unreal using sequencer
Video Editing in Blender to create the final video

Some of the topics covered during the course include:

Find Missing Files
Packing Files Internally
Objects Origin
A Pose
Bone Names
Bone Orientation
Bone Hierarchy
Bone Parenting
Mirror Command
Extruding Bones
Naming & Orientation
Active Element
Symmetrizing Bones & Updating Names
Binding the Character to the Rig
Solving Binding Issues
Weight Paint Mode
Track to Constraint
Eye Texture
Inverse Kinematics
Control Objects
Bone Layers
Bone Groups
Custom Shapes
Copy Rotation Constraints
Limit Rotation Constraints
Key Frames
Keying Set
Paste Flipped
Follow path Constraint
Binding Cameras to Markers
Level Sequence Setup
Character Animation Setup
Camera Setup

At the end of the course you will have a fully rigged character and environment you can animate and practice on. The course is aimed at intermediate blender users with a quick pace throughout teaching you lots of new skills along the way.

So what are you waiting for. Click the buy now button and start creating your next animated character now!

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Reviews

Brian

September 20, 2023

I'm nearly finished making the Robot and honestly I just think there's some poor practices going on here. Very few parts of the object were named as he went in the outliner so when you get to the point where he tells you to go retroactively mirror all the components over, you are limited to selecting in the viewport because all your pieces in the outliner have meaningless names. Also I find it a little frustrating that when starting a new section like the head or the foot he just starts bringing in primative shapes and moving them around saying to adjust them in ways that are often not obvious as to what you're doing. For example when he started shaping the foot he began modifying the a plane in ways that would only be obvious from the side view, yet his secondary viewport didn't have that part of the picture in frame yet. So he's like "Now bevel the edges" and you're like, "OK... but why?" I'm also a fairly quick learning and don't really like following specific instructions for a long time, but in some cases if you didn't do it exactly how he did you may not be able to use the next tool he wants to showcase. But I guess this is largely unavoidable, so I can't really fault him for that part. I just wish if I was stuck blindly following directions the video would be annotated as to what part we are doing specifically. For example, when starting the head he dragged in a plane and then moved it toward the jaw, I started immediately shaping it like the little soul patch piece only to then realize he was starting with the jaw.

Zac

August 14, 2023

Brilliant course accessible for users who range from a little Blender knowledge, to having never opened Blender at all. Covers all the fundamental knowledge required for modelling, shortcuts and tools for quality of life of your modelling process. I personally knew a little Blender already, and previously used 3DS Max during University (but no longer have access to - so Blender it now is!) - but I paid attention to all the tips & tricks to uncover knowledge of the program I hadn't taught myself. The only topics I feel like are missing from this course are: - A discussion on topology density / retop / optimisation. Subdivision surface is used extensively on the model as well as reinforcing edge loops which massively drives up the complexity of the model and if users brand new to modelling aren't aware of this then they may encounter performance issues. - The baking & texturing section should be BEFORE the rigging stage, as you are likely to notice issues with your model topology after importing them to another program. I personally noticed that my bakes had some small issues in Substance Painter, that I then tweaked the model topology & UV to amend them. If I had already rigged the character, I would have to then go and fix the rig as well with the edited model. - A little more on how to save & load animations on the character rig during the walk cycle stage. I searched up how to do it myself, although it was a little confusing. You have to open the 'Outliner' > 'Blender Files' to delete any unwanted animation data blocks. Thank you very much for providing such an extensive course!

Joseph

August 11, 2023

I have watched dozens of both paid and free tutorials, and Thomas McDonald is the most concise and thorough instructor I've seen so far. Fantastic!! I've already purchased all of his other Blender tutorials on Udemy in advance.

Arioch

May 29, 2023

I haven't moved past section 1 yet but already this is a bargain. This could actually be 2 courses. Section 1 is a comprehensive introduction to Blender and it's tools. It is suitable for true beginners. I thought I knew many of the tools but almost every lessons gave me some pearl that I had previously missed. The instructor moves at a good pace and has Python driven challenges in Blender to give you a quick test on what you've learned. I have not been bored at all even though I thought I knew a lot of the Intro material. It is the best tutorial I've seen. I'm really looking forward to the rest of it.

Chris

March 16, 2023

I just started. He's showing me EVERY SINGLE MENU OPTION in Blender and EVERY SINGLE KEYBOARD SHORT CUT. I don't need all of that at this point. WAY too much information. Get to the basic foundational bullet points already. I'm not going to remember the 80 short cut keys you just rattled off and how all of the Addons work. I can look that up later. Translate, rotate, scale. Yep. GOT IT. move on. Introduce detail as a topic requires. Edit: I skipped ahead a little to see if the whole course was going to be like this. Thankfully Section 2 looks like he gets going. Still, too many hotkeys to start off with. That may be good after you settle in but frustrating to start off. Hot keys are not always easy for left handers.

Gordon

February 21, 2023

The character portion of the course starts off strong with setting up the proper unit scale for Blender and Unreal. That a often over looked step.

Emre

February 18, 2022

It was a very good course, thank you very much for the content. I feel a slight improvement would be to include more explanations about why you are doing something early on, sometimes you start doing something and we only understand at the end why you did it :)

Robert

February 4, 2022

Das UV Mapping ist gerade zu Ende und bin auf das Rigging gespannt. Sehr ruhig und super erklärt. Mal schauen wie es weiter geht.

Santiago

November 29, 2021

The course is good but should be focused only in rigging, animation, and weight paint, because you dont find those courses, and it is the more important when you search for a no beginner rig course

Matthew

July 23, 2021

A few of the shortkeys or menu options need to be configured for them to work in the way that is explained. Pie views menu shortkey, for example, does not default on the apostrophe key.

Keith

March 28, 2021

I have been following Thomas McDonald since 2017. His tutorials explain in great detail the processes involved in using Blender. He also give you tips and tricks that others do not. I would recommend his series of tutorials for beginners as well as refreshers for advanced users of Blender whom have been away for awhile.

David

March 15, 2021

Great introductory course for modeling. A bit fast paced so just watching 1st time through and then I'll go back and follow along the second time.

Guido

November 26, 2020

Sometimes a little to fast, but there are a lot of new alternatives of workflow so even a pro can learn something out of it.

Jose

November 25, 2020

Very detailed course with allot of very useful information. The instructors covers everything in great detail highly recommend this course to everyone

Jerry

October 12, 2019

The course is well written and the instructor is engaging. I quit taking the course because I decided to temporarily drop the course while I spent my time in another area of interest in higher mathematics. Once I am done, I will probably come back and start the course over.

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