Personal 3D Asset Creation Tutorial Recommendations

I put together a big list of tutorials that helped me a lot when learning how to make stuff for use in VRChat a while back on Twitter and wanted to preserve it and add to it here.There's no one perfect tutorial as aspects from all of them need to be incorporated when learning how to make stuff and you have to consider optimization as an end-goal. Hopefully this helps someone!
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_{*This is a living document and I will update it over time as I find things that I think are generally useful for people to know with this context in mind
**Disclaimer: I am not a professional and please take these recommendations with that in mind. I hope that this collection of stuff that helped me over the past two years can help other learners too.}

Basics:

-Non-intimidating Blender Intro/full course (Not Donut)
-UV Unwrapping deep dive
-Every Modifier Explained

Clothes

Modeling a Jacket - This teaches a lot of good practices for making clothes and maintaining good topology throughout using the Multires Modifier to sculpt non-destructively.
--->Modeling
--->Texturing

Rigging

-Data Transfer for transferring existing weights to an outfit
-Skirt rigging using bone envelopes
-Weight Painting solid objects like Pins, Buttons, etc

Character Modeling

I am very new to character modeling but this tutorial has been extremely helpful at breaking down every step of the process and simplifying each part.

General game asset creation resources:

Trim Sheet tutorials--->Hamish Ames
-->ChrisBeluhn
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Texel Density Deep Dive
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General Game Art Tricks
-I can't express enough how useful this one link is. I've spent countless hours reading this and learned so much. Please check it out.
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Seamless Texture Creation
--->Similar tutorial but uses a Dyntopo method in sculpt mode

Generally Useful Plugins

Note: Plugins aren’t “cheating”, a lot are included with blender and are intended as part of your workflow once you get comfy. Don’t shy away from using them and overwork yourself to learn some convoluted method when a plugin is just a checkbox away. (I say this because I’ve done that (looking at Loop Tools plugin).

-Robust Weight Transfer
-UV Squares
-Blenderkit open asset library

Quick and Easy Plugins to turn on: In Blender under Edit> Preferences> Add-Ons, turn on:-Node Wrangler (enables several things for Shading nodes, I generally use Ctrl+T to quickly add a mapping node, and Ctrl+Shift+Click to preview what a node looks like on the final output)-Extra Objects (adds common starting objects to save time when blocking out)-Loop Tools (adds tools to better handle loops, like relaxing them, making them circular, flattening them, etc. One of my most used plugins)

Bonus

Also basically just follow Ryan King's entire Youtube Channel because he's the Nodemaster and I learned pretty much all of my native blender texturing from him

Light Baking

I don't really know too much about it if I'm being honest but I purchased Bakery and blindly followed this guide and got exactly the results I wanted so I consider that a pretty good review of it: Light Baking and You by Silent

Contact

You know what to do.

• Bluesky