Hi, I’m Darrin Lile, a Blender Foundation Certified Trainer. I received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Film and Media studies from the University of Kansas, taught 3D animation and game design at the Art Institute of Wisconsin, and have been a technical editor of Blender books for Packt Publishing.
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Now I create Blender training courses for Lynda.com, Udemy.com, and Blender101.com. Let me help you learn Blender quickly, so you can start creating your own amazing animations and games.

Create a Game Character with Blender
Learn how to create your own game characters in Blender! Learn how to model, texture, rig, and animate a game character in Blender. And then discover how to bring the character into Unity and set-up a character controller to move the character around.

Create Game Assets with Blender and Substance Painter
In this course you’ll learn to use Blender’s modeling tools to create a high resolution model of an M249 Machine Gun. You’ll learn retopology techniques that will allow you to create a low-poly version of your high-poly object. You’ll also learn how to create a Color ID, bake Normal and Ambient Occlusion maps, assign materials in Substance Painter, import your Blender models into Unity, and assign PBR textures to objects in Unity.

Create a Game Environment with Blender and Unity
Learn how to create your own game environments with Blender, Photoshop, and Unity! Discover how to bring your own game designs to life by using Blender and Unity in a more integrated way than you may have seen before.

Learn Animation Production with Blender
In this course we’ll go through the process of creating an animated scene from scratch. From the first polygon to the final render. You’ll learn all the steps involved in bringing your own animations to life.

Create Captain America's Motorcycle with Blender
Learn the fundamental concepts and techniques of hard surface modeling in Blender. Learn to create materials and textures, as well as light and render a realistic vehicle.

Learn the Foundations of Blender
Learn the fundamental concepts and techniques of Blender, the incredible free, open-source animation suite. Learn to create 3D models, materials, uv maps, and textures. Learn to light and render your scenes with Blender’s Cycles render engine.
This is the companion book to my popular Youtube series, Blender Character Creation. Here I provide written explanations of the modeling techniques in the videos so that you can go deeper into the details of the character creation process.

Get the eBook and follow along with the free character modeling videos on Youtube.