7 Best Character Design Courses for Beginners
We compared 7 Character Design courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $24.99 to $199.99. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 7
- Price range
- $24.99 – $199.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 7 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, matched to "character design" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $24.99 to $199.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Blender 3D Fundamentals & Character Design
Offered by Skillshare
This Specialization is intended for aspiring 3D artists, Blender beginners, and creative professionals seeking to develop practical 3D modeling, procedural design, and character creation skills. Through three courses tau...
$49.00listed price -
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Complete Nomad Sculpt Course: Beginner to Expert
Have you ever wanted to create your own 3D characters, props, or creatures, without a big PC setup or expensive desktop software? Nomad Sculpt lets you model, sculpt, and paint directly on your tablet, phone or computer....
$49.99listed price -
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Nomad Sculpt for Beginners
Offered by Skillshare
Taught by Dave Reed, an experienced 3D artist passionate about making 3D accessible, this Specialization is intended for beginners and intermediate digital artists who want to develop foundational 3D sculpting and lighti...
$49.00listed price -
4
Complete Beginners Course for Adobe Animate
If you are looking for the easiest way to create animated cartoons, then this is the course for you. In this course, you will learn how to create a full animated scene in Adobe Animate.Adobe Animate is a powerful 2D anim...
$24.99listed price -
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Unreal Engine for Beginners
Offered by Skillshare
This Specialization, taught by Jordy Vandeput, is intended for aspiring filmmakers, 3D artists, and content creators seeking to develop real-time 3D production skills. Through three hands-on courses, you will cover world...
$49.00listed price -
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Creating Simple Characters for Beginners in Blender
In this training, the student will learn to create mascots and characters for advertising and will be able to serve small and medium-sized companies in their region.we will start with the analysis of the concept art, we...
$199.99listed price -
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Unreal Engine 5 for Beginners - Create your first game
So you want to learn Unreal Engine 5...Welcome to this course, where you step-by-step will be learning a lot! From basic things such as projects, actors, components to animation and blueprints.I hate when people just sho...
$54.99listed price
Best Character Design Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blender 3D Fundamentals & Character Design | Coursera | Skillshare | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Complete Nomad Sculpt Course: Beginner to Expert | Udemy | — | $49.99 | View → |
| 3 | Nomad Sculpt for Beginners | Coursera | Skillshare | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Complete Beginners Course for Adobe Animate | Udemy | — | $24.99 | View → |
| 5 | Unreal Engine for Beginners | Coursera | Skillshare | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Creating Simple Characters for Beginners in Blender | Udemy | — | $199.99 | View → |
| 7 | Unreal Engine 5 for Beginners - Create your first game | Udemy | — | $54.99 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 7 priced courses on this page run from $24.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $175.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.