A low-poly knight 3D model!

A rigged and animated knight low-poly character asset :)

A while ago, I shared a few low-poly model timelapse videos. It was really interesting to discover this type of modelling and I was really happy with the first results.

But, going back to the great Imphenzia’s YouTube channel and re-watching some of his videos, I decided I would take it one step further — this time, I modelled a low-poly knight character and then rigged and animated it! :)

A little 3D low-poly knight modelled, rigged and animated in Blender!

About this 3D model

Preparing the character

To do this, I followed Imphenzia’s short series of videos on the topic and then re-adapted the low-poly police officer character from the tutorial to transform him into a knight.

I started from the police officer character that Imphenzia uses in his tutorial and transformed it into a knight!

The mesh is coloured using Imphenzia’s usual technique: we take a small palette of 8x8 colours and directly place the UVs corresponding to the various faces of the mesh on the right colour to instantly colour a part of the character :)

For turning the police officier into a knight, most of it was about changing the colours, adding some geometry to the…