Creating a Stylized Dragon – Complete Series
David Ward’s Creating a Stylized Dragon using Blender 2.5 series is now complete.
From the tutorial:
Here are all complete 9 parts of the seriesIn this multi-part series, I’ll be covering how to box-model a stylized dragon, making heavy use of the various sculpt tools. The texturing will cover creating tangent normal maps and using the “toon shader” to get a nice cel-shaded look. I’ll also go into some intermediate rigging with some nice animations; from walking to pouncing to flying. and finally we’ll look into setting up a good composition with props and lighting.
That series is great! Watched it in its entirety :)
“’ll also go into some intermediate rigging with some nice animations; from walking to pouncing to flying.”
It doesn’t cover the face rig?
No, he didn’t really use that one. But I don’t think, a dragon like this is the best point to discuss face-rigs… The face rig wasn’t too detailed anyway. Merely jaw and most basic eye controls.
Nice ones!
A little bit too long tho ;)
Anybody knows at wich part he’s doing the body rig?
The short descriptions tell you, that he starts the rig in part 7, not directly at the beginning though.
Hmm, I just noticed that the links need some fixup for now. He doesn’t link from every video to every other one yet.
(The BN links are fine, that’s not what I mean. The links above the videos are missing, partially)
Thanks for the publication! Hope everyone enjoys the series :)
@Dave: It’s terrific!! Thanks!
@TLOZ: I wouldn’t say it’s too long. For me, it covers the necessary details to learn something useful. Making it shorter would have compromised a lot of understanding, at least on my part. I like “long” videotutorials, they don’t make you feel like you’re lost. :)
@mjordan
I guess you’re right ;)
Anyways, I like more general tutorials, so that I can use the shown techniques with other meshes as well.
So the whole modelling part seems a little bit redundant to me.
But I guess it’s quite useful to others.
btw. this tutorial is already spitted in parts – So my statement was a lil bit dumb ;)
This is an awesome series, Thanks David and Blendercookie!
I have a question. I see on the site they ask 10$ for login/download the video files in the mov format.
What is included in these 10$? All the parts or just one part? Thanks.
@mjordan
The $10 is for a Citizen membership; that’s a monthly fee that you pay to “log in and download” whichever tutorials you like, rather then doing the $4 per each one.
http://www.blendercookie.com/2009/11/20/cg-cookie-citizen-program-created/