amazing texture work from one of my students

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Hey folks, I was teaching one of my texturing classes yesterday, and one of my students handed this in. I was floored. Excellent work! The assignment was to make 4 crates on a super simple cube, yet create the illusion of depth with the various techniques that I teach... All in the diffuse... There are no specular or normal maps. But the image is rendered in Marmoset tool bag.



Link to his gallery here
https://www.behance.net/gallery/Hand-Painted-Textures/14351391

D4V1DC

Looks nice, how long did that take one class, how long is that?

CarlK3D

Wow, very talented. I thought it was from the Game for a moment...
Wish I had those skills >:

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It was a one week homework assignment. He made 3 more textures (the assignment was to create 4 of them). Everything is hand painted... As for I require each student to hand in the Photoshop file so that I can pick it apart and check their work.

Again, no normal maps, no specular and no high poly. This was UV and applied to a simple low poly cube... 8 vertexes per cube. You can just as easily apply this to a flat plane.

Jakob Gavelli

Wow! That looks really good. The forms and perspective made me think that he modelled it out to use take a planar UV-shot to use as a guide, but I'm not so sure after seeing the breakdown.

The wood is an overlayed tileable texture? Pretty nifty. You can see the same wood tileable used on all wood textures on the site. You do whatever you have to do to save time though I guess?!

Very nice! Good job teaching!

Torch

Its alright I suppose, for a student.

Just messing, that's awesome! Insta-job when finishing the course methinks

radiancef0rge

Not to be a total wet napkin but did you ask him if you could post their work?

Fenyce

Awesome. Put this into my inspiration folder!

LMP

That guy's got some texturing skills.

BlenderCube

Was this originally a rendered out hard surface, with a baked AO for depth or was it all painted?

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BlenderCube wrote: »

Was this originally a rendered out hard surface, with a baked AO for depth or was it all painted?

Everythin is hand painted on a 1024 texture using photoshop. No surface transfer, no normals and no specular

Ignacio_G

I don't know, to me this way too close to the original from Hearthstone. It's almost like he traced the art, tweaked the lines around slightly and tried to match it. It's cool to learn from the pros, but it's not presented that way and I feel Blizzard should be credited a little more.
http://www.blizzplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/hearthstone-Card-Box-Cinematic.jpg

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Remember, this was a class assignment that I gave out last week. It was an exercise in the creation of dimension on a flat 2d surface using differences in values, color variations and highlights. Regardless of which artistic style it is derived from, he did an outstanding job. the photoshop layers were in order, named correctly, he made all of his groups and layers in a modular fashion so if adjustments needed to be done, then he could quickly and easily make those adjustments. his sense of color, and composition is spot on, and he knows how to address the various materials on the presented piece.


His inspiration was certainly inspired by Blizzard... there is no doubt about it....and certainly many other people online are Blizzard fans and try hard to create wonderful artwork based on Blizzard's style.

so to satisfy your needs, I have attached a break down of his process. so to be clear, the artwork was done by the student, but he was certainly inspired by Blizzard's style and intellectual property.