Designing the biped

Character Proportions

Image planes

Modeling a Biped

Roughing out the Biped

modeling a humanoid model

Making Eyes 2 Ways Plus controls

Joining Objects

Quad Draw (for face details)

Shape Editor/Blend Shapes

Texturing a Biped

Rigging and Skinning

Rigging Tutorials

Skinning

Advanced Skeleton

Here is a video on how to use Advanced Skeleton to create a rig that is cartoony (with stretchy limbs, for example)

Animating

Animation Tutorial

Rendering the Animation

Pipeline for the biped

• Design character on paper

• Create Image Planes and Load into Front and Side Cameras

• Rough Out the Model

• Refine biped (making sure biped is facing towards +Z and is centered on the Y axis, with feet resting on the X Axis (the entire character should be in the +y quadrants)

• Delete History and Freeze Transformations

• UV unwrapping as needed

• Duplicate the Character

• Smooth Duplicate character to make high-poly version

• Substance Painter For Materials for at least one surface (with texture caching of low and high poly versions)

• aiStandard Surface for others

• Blend Shapes w/Shape Editor

• Rig using one of these methods:

  • Parenting

  • Quick Rig

  • Quick Rig plus some extra skeleton systems for hands, tail, ears, etc

  • HumanIK (more customizable) but you need to bind the skin separately

  • (Rokoko Studio)

  • Custom Rig following a tutorial (Lorie has some to suggest)

• Skinning as needed

• Animate

• Render Image Sequence

• Use iMovie, Premiere, Quicktime, Photoshop or other editing software to convert to a movie file - add sound and titles as you’d like.