Blender Character Tutorials?

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Hey Everybody,

My name is Avi and I am a Beginner 3D Artist. I know the basic techniques in Blender and have been creating game props for a couple of months now and am wanting to progress forward to creating characters. What I am asking for is a tutorial or something that can help me make a character.

What I want to make is a cartoon type fierce looking character which I can use in a action/adventure 2.5D Side scrolling game. I will also need to make a gun for the character. Are there any tutorials that show how to make a cartoonish character or anything similar? Also if you know any good tutorials showing how to make a cartoonish rifle type gun, plz reply to this thread or Pm me.

I just dont know where to start at or what to do first. Should I draw sketches of the character or get reference images or just model through my imagination? Should I model the body first or the head? How do I make the model look cartoonish and not realistic? I am very confused and need some guidence from the pros. Also how does skinning, rigging and animating the character for the game work? Are there any tutorials for that?

Thx in advance. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Avi.

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Hey chap.
There are some really nice tutorials on CgCookie/BlenderCookie. It is a sub site, but you might find some of the free stuff useful. And there is always youtube, but you will need to figure out if a tutorial is any good for you on there. You can also run some google searches for cartooning tips, to really get the effect you are going for.

Using reference images is a good idea also!

Steven.

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Hmm… I didn’t really find what I was looking for. But It does have a lot of great resources for all kinds of stuff. Thx anyways.