Where to find character packs for Blender projects

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Hi everyone,

For future Blender projects, I’m looking for a good resource for characters to populate my scenes. I often work with medieval or WWII settings, so I’m specifically looking for soldiers, peasants, warriors, regular townsfolk, and similar characters.

These characters don’t necessarily have to be highly detailed, as most will be used in the background. Ideally, I’d like to find character packs that maintain consistent style and quality. Free options are welcome, but I’m also open to paying for good resources.

I’m essentially looking for a go-to site, similar to a good texture site, where I can easily find characters that fit my needs when I need them.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks!

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I often use https://sketchfab.com/ (or www.blendswap.com) for free objects. Maybe you already knew them. ChuckCG have many medieval objects, but You was asking characters…

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yea, I use sketchfab quite often and really love it. But I havent really found any good characters kits there yet, that would fit my scenes.

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Check Mixamo

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Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve checked out Mixamo before, but I found the characters there to be a bit too unrealistic or cartoony for my needs.

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There are a lot of character packs on blender market.

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What’s your budget? High quality realistic characters like you’re describing can run in the hundreds or thousands each

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I just looked there, but could not really find anything more then 3 people.
Or do I maybe use the wrong words in the search? I usually look for stuff like “medieval character pack” “medieval crowds” “medieval npc pack” etc.

I’m looking for something similar to this: https://jamajurabaev.gumroad.com/l/YIiOG/special
It does not have to be as high quality or near as many characters, but at least 5-10.

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Check those websites, most likely you’ll find what you need there :
TurboSquid
Free3D

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Thanks for the answer. As I said, they dont have to be super detailed. They are ment for the background mostly. I’m an environment artist and want to start populating my scenes with some people.

My budget is probably up to $200.
An example of what I’m looking for is this pack: https://jamajurabaev.gumroad.com/l/YIiOG/special

Unfortunately I’m not that interested in knights, but rather normal people, or simple soldiers.

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I did, but I cant seem to find packs of people, only max 3, which dont really is enough for big crowds.
Also, they are often too detailed and by that also a bit too expensive (for only 3 characters I would use in the background)

I’m looking for character packs like this one: https://jamajurabaev.gumroad.com/l/YIiOG/special

Unfortunately I dont really need knights, rather normal people.

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You’re going to have to settle and/or lower your standards then. Again, the quality you’re looking for costs anywhere from 600-1200 per character

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Take a look at this, it fits within your budget…
https://www.bigmediumsmall.com/medieval-update

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Artstation is a great marketplace for models & textures.

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How come nobody mentions DAZ ?
Sure, it’s easy to spend thousands of dollars over there,
but the basic stuff has great anatomy, rigging, etc.
and is free to download. Also free is their DAZ to Blender bridge.