Difference between revisions of "TexturingTutorials"

Latest revision as of 20:46, 21 November 2016

Tutorials for creating game textures.

Painting Realistic Textures

• Character texturing overview and tutorial by Marie-Michelle "Tits" Pepin

• Next-Gen character texturing Timeplapse by Gavin "Gav" Goulden

• Texturing Metal Surfaces by Evan 'racer445' Herbert

• Tracker Knife - NextGen asset tutorial series by Joe Harford
  

• Hard Surface Texture Painting (2006) by Stefan Morrell (original CGSociety thread)

See also EnvironmentSculpting

Painting Stylistic Textures

• Hand Painted Wood Tutorial from the Polycount Forum, by Matthew 'skayne' Heyman

• Adding Highlights and Using SoftLight (paintover on 'snow's textures from Stylized textures - need help) - by Terrie 'Saiainoshi' Denman

• Adding More Color To a Texture (paintover on 'snow's texture from Stylized textures - need help) - by Terrie 'Saiainoshi' Denman

• Some Thoughts on Smooth Blending - by Linda 'Enayla' Bergkvist

• 'Hand Painted' Step by step thing of some sort - by John "JFletcher" Fletcher. Polycount forum thread.

• Texture Painting Tips - by Michael Dashow

• SoilChild Texture Tutorial by Josh Singh. Polycount forum thread.

• Wood tutorial by Tracy Marvin "Rhinokey" Hunt

• Painting in Hard Light Mode - by Jason "HorribleDeath" Sallenbach

• So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist? - by Tsugumo

• Hand painted tiling grass texture walkthrough by Jeff ParrottHow to paint a custom grass texture in Photoshop that is tiled.

• Hand painted wood by Eric ChadwickAnimated gif of the painting process for a painterly wood plank texture. Finished texture here.

Vig's Collection of Bookmarked Tutorials

Vig's Collection of Bookmarked Tutorials Polycount Forum thread

Metal and Hard Surface Hard Surface Materials (metal scratches and wear)

Neil Belvins Procedural Paint Chips Check out Neils other materials too, even tho its 3D he breaks them down in a way that makes sense for 2D.

How to Hand Paint Convincing Metal Textures

Creating metal Greeble from scratch

Flesh, Faces and Fur

Drawing Heads, some general guides

Painting a realistic face tutorial by George Patsouras

Furiae's Painting tutorials, Eyes, Lips, Hair, Noses, Skin Tone

Enayla Painting an eye

Hair and Fur Photoshop Bursh

Grass

Hand painted grass tutorial

Painterly

Texture Painting - Michael Dashow and its that easy...

WIP - Old Fishing Bait Shop

Pixel Art

So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist? Oh you think pixel art is easy?

Handmade anti-aliasing Pixelart Tutorials A long forgotten tool.

Tips and Tricks

Tutorials - GFXartist.com Lots of tutorials and break downs of paintings.

pior oberson character artist its Pior foo, pay attention.

leigh van der byl Good to know general tips and tricks.

Honorible Death's Hard Light Tutorial Slime on a sphincter.

Digital Painting In PS #2 - ConceptArt.org Forums Read it, at least twice.

How To Draw Caricatures

Abstract Airbrushing Tutorial On TutorialMan.com

Watch Them Paint

Illustration Concept Art Tutorials - Carlos Cabrera

Painting Tutorials polycount A collection of videos

Massive Black DVD

Transport Design: Aerodeslizadores - Video - Sclipo Concepts a transport ship.

A list of artists and their sites from the EatPoo forums

Normal Maps

Normal Maps and How Not to Do Them

Hand Made Normal Maps

Seams

Texturing Tutorial, by SweetnutZ

More Information

• Category:TextureTechnique = Texturing techniques commonly used in game development.
• Concept Fundamentals = The basics of concept drawing and painting.
• Painting Tutorials thread on the Polycount forum = Links to more painting tutorials.
• CharacterSculpting and EnvironmentSculpting = Information and tutorials about 3D sculpting.
• Reference = Reference imagery: photos, concept art, texture sites, etc.