Realistic Venetian Mask

SgtBabbit

Current WIP. Made in 3D Studio Max, high poly sculpt in ZBrush, retopo in 3D Coat (this was new for me!) and maps exported with XNormal (normal, AO, cavity and curvature) This is my first time in Substance Painter and my first real honest attempt at realism. I'm concerned about getting a nice cracked paint look on the white and how on earth to do the gemstones that sit in the gold. What you see below is literally about 10 mins experimentation first time in SP. Any advice/good tutorials/direction?

SgtBabbit

After watching lots of tutorials on youtube, think I'm getting the hang of it slowly! I love the software though, going to be using this a lot in the future.

Paradan

looks good, might wanna turn down the high level for the AO, just a smidge though.

SgtBabbit

fair enough, I did slap it on top in marmoset again, I'm a sucker for dark shadows :P

SgtBabbit

Problem alert

So I added some ribbon ties, and the gems into their settings. I import the new mesh with edit -> project configuration



Ok all looking good ready to paint on th-



WHAT. The materials seem fine, but all my masks are distorted and incorrect. I really don't want to have to redraw all my masks :c Is there a way to fix this?

Froyok

This issue is now being handle on our forum : https://forum.allegorithmic.com/index.php?topic=5784.0

SgtBabbit

Problem fixed!

started working on gems and ribbons

I seem to have lost some of the mask detail, hmmm.
I may need to do more work on the ribbon shape.
I'm struggling to find a way to make the gems look translucent and reflective/refractive, maybe turn them into pearls if i can't find a way?

WarrenM

Just wanted to say I love this. I can't wait to see how it turns out!

SgtBabbit

Oh, wow thank-you! That's very encouraging. I'm really enjoying this project