Hello, friends of Blender, Ancient Greece… and generally cool stuff!

My name is Martin and I am so excited to bring you this epic course from the series of tutorials belonging to the Heroes of Bronze project. 

In this course, I focus on creating a Spartan warrior character, guiding you through various stages of modeling, sculpting, retopologizing, hair grooming, UVing and preparing for export to other applications.  At the end of it, you will have all the tools you need for creating your own characters for your CG videos and films.

THE  COURSE CONTAINS:

• more than 3 hours of guided tutorials in 38 lessons, sped up at repetitive tasks

• bonus: adding rigged characters 

• bonus: particle hair grooming

• bonus: painting height in Substance Painter

• lots of historical fun facts about Ancient Greece

• ancient Greek decorative alphas (.png)

• textured models (.blend) of the kopis sword and aspis shield

YOU WILL NEED:

• Blender 2.79 and higher

• Free Addons (built into Blender 2.79): Layer Management, LoopTools, NodeWrangler, Texture Atlas

• Paid Addons (optional): UV Packmaster

• For the Bonus Lesson #3: Substance Painter (30 day free trial)

YOU WILL LEARN TECHNIQUES ON:

• how to add rigged characters to Blender

• how to model armor and accessories for the warrior model

• how to sculpt and retopologize assets

• how to UV unwrap the assets and pack them into Atlases

• how to export meshes to Substance Painter and Height paint there

• how to create particle crest in Blender

• a lot of unnecessary but fun historical facts about Ancient Greece:

More info on the website: www.heroesofbronze.com