Revision as of 22:26, 5 August 2014

Texturing Tutorials

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
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  Tracker Knife - NextGen asset tutorial series by Joe Harford
  
• Hard Surface Texture Painting (2006) by Stefan Morrell
• Painting Your Diffuse, Specular, and Height Maps (for Quake 4, 2005) by Raven Software
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  Tileable Texture in 3dMax & Zbrush by Sean Marino
  

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

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1139754&postcount=2

• 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<
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  > Texture Painting - Michael Dashow and its that easy...<
  > [[WIP - Old Fishing Bait Shop - Page 6 - polycount]]<
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  > 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. <
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  > 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<
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  > 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 <
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  > Normal Maps<
  > normalMapMiniTut.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280x4096 pixels)<
  > Hand Made Normal Maps<
  ><
  > Seams<
  >Texturing Tutorial, by SweetnutZ

More Information

• = Texturing techniques commonly used in game development.
• = 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 imagery: photos, concept art, texture sites, etc.