Blender Character Design Timelapse - Farmboy (Materials to Render)

Watch the first half here 👉 • Blender Character Desi...
Hi! This is the second half of the Blender character design timelapse for "Farmboy." I'm excited to share with you what the workflow looks like when creating characters in Blender.
This one was more challenging. In hindsight I wish I'd used a more basic rig for such a simple character.
A rig is like a skeleton that is paired to your characters geometry. As the skeleton's bones move, so can your geometry. How much your geometry moves alongside the bone depends on how much "weight" or influence the bone has on surrounding geometry. In this case I used the rig to pose the character in a static position. But the bones are also used to animate the character.
I used Blender's Rigify addon to generate a pre-built rig but ended up with too many bones to worry about, which complicated corrections in weight painting-editing how much the bones influence surrounding geometry. I accidentally deleted some necessary bones from the metarig and had to start the process over. After posing, there were more deformations to clean up as well. So next time, I'll keep it simple.
Chapters:
0:00 Shading the Character
5:43 UV & Clothing Materials
14:13 Carrot Shading
15:12 Rigging Attempts
18:54 Rigify Error
27:10 Weight Painting & Cleanup
38:36 Posing, Finally
43:10 Fixing Intersections
52:09 Touchups
54:18 Platform & Lighting
59:35 Final Render
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