{"id":7997,"date":"2025-10-10T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a25\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:56:22","slug":"character-modeling-texturing-animation-jadon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a25\/jdlemkin\/character-modeling-texturing-animation-jadon\/","title":{"rendered":"Character Modeling, Texturing, & Animation – Jadon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my character, I chose to model it in Blender by poly-modeling the overall shape, subdividing, and then refining the details with the sculpting tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Model Draft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Model Refining<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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UV Unwrapping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Animation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Texturing & Implementation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These animations were downloaded from Mixamo after a brief period of experimentation with animation revealed to me that I do not know how to animate. The animations had to be re-targeted to use my custom skeleton, which I used the Blender animation-retargeting<\/a> addon to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For my character, I chose to model it in Blender by poly-modeling the overall shape, subdividing, and then refining the details with the sculpting tools. These animations were downloaded from Mixamo after a brief period of experimentation with animation revealed to me that I do not know how to animate. The animations had to be… <\/p>\n

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