I now have a fully textured character model and I am feeling happy about it.
It was quite a soothing process. I decided to texture via UP maps in Photoshop. Photoshop does have a 3D option which is really helpful, so you can paint straight on your model, but I didn't want to stress out my laptop with the rendering needed to smooth it for the important.
My go to for references was The Incredibles and Wall-E - I felt they were both similar in terms of the textures / look and feel I want to achieve.
I checked out a couple of tutorials for how to get the glowing effect I wanted. The 2 below were super simple and helpful!
How To Make Objects Glow
I also added a couple of grungy textures to the suit to make it look a bit more worn
Now for a few photos and my end result.
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| my spiffy coloured UV map |
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| Glow type 1 - TOO BRIGHT!! |
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| Glow type 2 - BETTER! |
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| Testing render snapshot with different background |
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| Testing render snapshot with different background |
I can't look at this anymore otherswise i'll start nit picking and trying to change things.... but all in all, very happy with the result. I might import her into Mudbox to paint over the seams as a final clean up.
3D is fun, and I am still slow.
UPDATE:
Also decided to do an animated turn
