Photoshop 3d Paint Tutorial

Vailias

This one has been a long time coming, I've had a few requests over the last year or so, and finally got the right combination of screen capture software and a good model to display. (Mop's Goblin)

SO here's the links, a tutorial in two parts on using Photoshop CS4 Extended's 3d paint capabilities

Part 1 - Getting Set Up

Part 2 - Painting Tools

Also apologies in advance for the Um's and breaths, I recorded this straight through with a hand held mic. Also the audio de-synchs a little.. happened during compression somehow.

That said I hope you all can find it useful and informative.

ZacD

Nice job. I gotta try this out soon.
Just a heads up, the mic gets bumped/blown into a lot, a little annoying.
I laughed at the painting normal map bit.

Tumerboy

Nice runthrough dude. I'll definitely have to give it a shot later.

Japhir

nice! thanks!
I tried this out a while ago, and didn't like it because the paint area's near the sharp corners would all appear very stretched/pixellated or would not paint at all now i finally know how to set it to a higher falloff edge, thanks! an area i had only just painted would be ruined after rotating the camera and drawing some more.

Vonklaus

Thanks!

I had played with the CS4 model painting but this was very nice to see a lot of the features I had not played with.

Cyrael

This is great! Thanks so much, I think its awesome, because like you said, the less number of programs I have to switch between to texture the better.

Vailias

ZacD wrote: »

Nice job. I gotta try this out soon.
Just a heads up, the mic gets bumped/blown into a lot, a little annoying.
I laughed at the painting normal map bit.

I do apologize for that. As soon as I can find/afford a mic stand or enough planks and duct tape I plan to fix that. The only headset mic I have gets really bad audio quality.

OH one thing I forgot to mention in the videos is you can use photoshop's selection tools on the 3d layer proper. So you can do quickmask, marquee, magic wand, etc oh yeah and filters work too.

Junkie_XL

This almost looked like a presentation on why you shouldn't use CS4. I've watched some bodypaint tutorials and I've never witnessed what just happened when you applied the heart there on his cheek. That looked like it applied very poorly.

Also wouldn't painting on the normal map have any kind of value? Blending seams for example? 3d coat brags about this a little I think.

Anywho nice run through on the features. Thanks for recording it.

AnimeAngel

Very nice! I need to get cs4.. Have 3 atm and it certainly leaves a lot to be desired.

achmedthesnake

Val quote: " serious...it pops right in" ummm


edit: just noticed - in video.2 what's with the artifacts on the goblins brow, as well as when you use the 'heart' stamp, when you flatten you get this greyscale stuff?

nah good walkthrough mate, i always had to go between standard pshop/mudbox painting and back again to do it properly, thanks for the tips..