Tutorial Hoarder's Dump / Collage of tutorials hoarded over time
polycounter lvl 11
Greetings fellow Polycounters!
I've had a stupid habit of trying to 'backup' nearly the entire supply of tutorials the internet has to offer, regarding game art, on my hard drive.
In this thread I've tried to organize the unmanageable mess that I've made, into a somewhat readable/presentable form. Tried to pretty much post the most sensible ones that actually might make some sense out of context (most of them don't). That being said, if people approve of this thread, I'll consider posting my video archives as well that I've collected over the years. I'll have to spend a while to check that any of it wouldn't fall into the category we call pirating. A lot if it ain't free.
Also, I apologize beforehand if someones stuff is re-hosted and posted in this thread. Just poke me via PM and I'll see that the file will be removed from my copy folder and the link to it removed from this thread. For most of these, I have no clue who made them and where I got them from. I really got to work on archiving skills when it comes to digital hoarding.
Pretty sure most of this stuff is already general knowledge to a lot of active polycounters, so this is mostly aimed towards the newbies.. or something.
I'm still in the progress of sorting out my folders. Will keep updating this thread as I make progress. Enjoy!
Here goes.
NONE OF THESE ARE MADE BY ME
NONE OF THESE ARE MADE BY ME
Update Log:
Update 1..
July 11th 2014
- - Removed bad information. Thanks to metalliandy for pointing these out.
- - Added a section for Pinterest boards. Makes management and organizing easier for me and your scrollwheel might not catch on fire. Thanks to TeriyakiStyle for recommending it.
- - Added link to LiveWorkshop
- - Added link to Adam Fisher - Scifi Jouster
- - Added link to Art for Games
- - Added link to The Forgemaster - Game Character Masterclass (Playlist, 31 Videos)
Update 2..
July 11th 2014
I've been granted editorial access to the Polycount Wiki, so I'll be spending my weekend organizing stuff there.
Added the following to their corresponding Pinterest folders.
- - Added: Head Detail and Polypainting (21 Video Playlist)
- - Added: How to make 2D Game Tilesets
- - Added: Zbrush Tutorial: Decorations with slice brushes
- - Added: Postapocalyptic Character
- - Added: Zbrush for Low-Poly Texturing Part 01 | Part 02
- - Added: Handplane baking tutorial
- - Added: Zbrush - Create Quick Beat Up Edges and Cracks
- - Added: ZBrush Tileable Textures 2.5D Workflow Part 01 | Part 02
- - Added: Hard Surface Modelling in ZBrush 4R6 Part 01 | Part 02 | Part 03 | Part 04 | Part 05
- - Added: Creating Custom Brushes in ZBRush 4R6
- - Added: Custom UI in ZBrush 4R6
- - Added: Insert Mesh Curve Brushes in ZBrush 4R6
- - Added: Pixel Art Tutorial - Basics
- - Added: PIXEL ART - Rocks
- - Added: PIXEL ART - Tree
- - Added: PIXEL ART - Horse Animation
- - Added: Basic Video Game Character Hair Creation
- - Added: Overlay details in normal map in Photoshop CORRECTLY
- - Added: Rigging legs in Maya
- - Added: Animations using Maya and Unreal Engine 4
- - Added: Zbrush Wood Sculpt
- - Added: Creating a muzzle with Zbrush
- - Added: Toolbag 2 | Shader Setup for Characters
- - Added: Toolbag 2 and Eyes
Links:
Mostly useful links, also pdf's and larger images.
Polycount Wiki
Complete Zbrush Hotkey Guide
Zbrush Xnormal Diffuse Bake
Texture Photography
Investigation into modular design within computer games
Modular Brick Wall Tiling
Lee Perry Modular Level and Component Design
Gears of War 2 Dump - Modularity
Disting wrecked appartment breakdown
PhilipK Tutorials
Zbrush Cuts and Scars
Mask_Salesman's 'Last of Us' breakdown
Ysalex skin texturing
Imporve as an artist - Neil Gowland
Physically Based Rendering Encyclopedia
VERTEX Magazine
- Excerpts from Vertex Magazine - Handpaint Part 1
- Excerpts from Vertex Magazine - Handpaint Part 2
- Excerpts from Vertex Magazine - Handpaint Part 3
Art for Games
Videos:
Modular Characters - Jesse Sosa
http://youtu.be/qpVylUDyYuQ"]Creating Tileable Textures in Photoshop - 3dmotive
3D Character Art for Games - Vol. 1 - Hai Phan rest of these are worth your $ £ € , good stuff.
The Gamedev Cast PBR Special
Physically Based Texturing - Andrew Maximov
Physically Based Rendering for Artists - Andrew Maximov
Zbrush Basic Brick
Gasoline/Oily Rainbow Stain
Hand Painting Characters Playlist - Ryan Ribot
Weapon Design For Games Playlist - Ryan Ribot
Mirroring and reusing texture space
UDK Modular Tutorial by FahadKM
Capturing Matcap Materials and Exporting to Game Textures (Zbrush to Photoshop)
Maya UV Texture Editor Basics - 3D Motive
Next Gen Asset Creation - Andrew Smith
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Smitty's DOTA 2 Workshop - Andrew Smith
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11
Part 12
LiveWorkshop - Channel
The Forgemaster - Game Character Masterclass
Niuvas Printerest Boards:
Modeling
Zbrush
Environment
PBR
Character, Clothing, Hair, Topology & Anatomy
Texturing & Baking
Timelapses, Overviews & Processes
Nature, Foliage & Rocks
Animating, Rigging & Mocap
Modularity
Handpaint / Stylized
Pixelart
Misc
Baking and Bases
Modeling
Replies
This should do it, I hope.
awesome.
Updated the main post with a small list of videos.
Also, if someone has something to add, go right ahead!
Can't wait to tear through all this stuff, thanks!
Not to be a dick or anything but..
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Normal maps will automatically be baked with the correct directional information along the UV borders no matter how the UV islands are oriented. In the case above it's simply having the incorrect Y axis orientation (Y+ vs Y-) for the application rendering the normal map and has absolutely nothing to do with how the UV islands are laid out in UV space.
Waviness isn't an error or bad. It can be easily 'fixed' by adding more sides around the circumference of the offending object when it adversely affects the look of the mesh.
In the example above the projection issues are caused by the low poly differing so much compared to the high poly and increasing the side count to an amount that more closely matches the high poly would work really well without the need to customise the cage in any way. To make things worse a hack like this needs to be done for each map that is baked and someone else might have to do it if they have to modify the files later down the line. Not cool.
TL;DR There really is no need to do hacks like this, especially since geometry is so cheap now. More sides!*
*See Terms and Conditions for details. Mileage may vary.
Thanks for sharing !
THANK YOU!
Thank you!
Thanks guys for the love!
@TeriyakiStyle
You sir win!
Maybe I should rethink this and also organize my stuff using Printerest.
Last time I used it I didn't quite get what it was for, and ended up having them spam mail me about stuff that I really didn't care about, leaving a very bad first impression.
Mind if I put your links to the main post?
Also, shifted through a whole bunch of more crap, and cherrypicked a few more sheets of tutorials. Will post and attempt to shove all this into Printerest when I get home, after work.
All this friction caused by scrolling, might set someone's mousepad on fire. We don't want that, do we?
Thanks to TeriyakiStyle for recommending Pinterest. Truly does make things slightly easier.
Update Log:
July 11th 2014
Adam Fisher - Scifi Jouster(Concepting & Modeling - VIDEOS)
Art for Games
LiveWorkshop - Channel
Niuvas Printerest Boards:
Modeling
Zbrush
Environment
PBR
Character, Clothing, Hair, Topology & Anatomy
Texturing & Baking
Timelapses, Overviews & Processes
Nature, Foliage & Rocks
Animating, Rigging & Mocap
Modularity
Handpaint / Stylized
Pixelart
Misc
There is this super tiny site called 3Dnice.net, and they have a few SUPER cheap character modeling/texturing related tutorial series. Pretty harsh accent tho. (Sub $4)
Also, Hai Phan on CGCircuit has a good character modeling series. Slightly more expensive, but worth every penny. (Around $7, first part is free)
Not going to put these in the main post, since they are not free. Anyway, cheap stuff.
Thought you should know.
Niuva out!
Thank you so very much for all of these
Now someone throw me a rope, because I got lost reading all of them at the same time.
THX!!
Thank you so much! I had just lost a few of my tutorials after changing HDDs. This comes in the best moment