Hand-painted sci-fi tutorials?

armagon

I'm working on a small level in UE, with a cartoony sci-fi theme. I'm trying to practice hand-painted sci-fi, but i haven't seen many articles and tutorials on the topic. Most are medieval/goth themes textures, with lot's of wood and stone. Do you guys recommend any tutorials on the subject?

Also, any inspirational material? It's hard to find sci-fi themed cartoony/cel-shaded texturing work. Thanks in advance, guys.

Lt_Commander

I'm actually starting to dig into something similar for a small side project, but I've only done some reference exploration and a simple texture test. Right now, I'm looking at borderlands and telltale artwork for direction; I think borderlands would be the start and end for specifically cartoony sci-fi. I found one of the team's artists on artstation, his profile is worth looking at.

Like I said, I'm shooting more for a 'the walking dead/wolf among us' style with scifi, so I'm doing hard, thick lines in lieu of scratches, on top of light paint splatter and traditional brush effects, combined with a slightly posterized baked ambient occlusion layer. It's a little different then standard hand painting, I'll admit, but I hope it helps.

Here are a few that I did by painting over previous textures I had on hand.

jfitch

https://gumroad.com/turpedo

armagon

Lt_Commander wrote: »

I'm actually starting to dig into something similar for a small side project, but I've only done some reference exploration and a simple texture test. Right now, I'm looking at borderlands and telltale artwork for direction; I think borderlands would be the start and end for specifically cartoony sci-fi. I found one of the team's artists on artstation, his profile is worth looking at.

Like I said, I'm shooting more for a 'the walking dead/wolf among us' style with scifi, so I'm doing hard, thick lines in lieu of scratches, on top of light paint splatter and traditional brush effects, combined with a slightly posterized baked ambient occlusion layer. It's a little different then standard hand painting, I'll admit, but I hope it helps.

Here are a few that I did by painting over previous textures I had on hand.

That's some really nice work. How did you end up with those bases? Have you applied some effect on the original texture to "water" it down? Or did you start with some pure color palette and applied some grunge brushes onto it?

Blaisoid

Not a tutorial but I've been making a sci-fi themed texture pack for some time now.
It's sorta hand painted - I still use vector shapes and layer FX since I found it difficult to draw straight lines and create high tech designs by hand.
It's not cartoony at all but maybe it'll give you some ideas.

It looks like this:


you can find more here:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/blaze-k-sci-fi-texture-pack-semi-stylized.181949/#post-1842766

armagon

That's some nice art as well!

armagon

Bumping for more stuff!

Torch

This guy is pretty baws too: https://gumroad.com/l/uYYtu

EDIT: Doh, already beaten to it XO

cptSwing

Ah, shame gumroad doesn't do paypal. Those look nice.