Hand Painted Texturing - Thoughts and Samples

Michael_Ingrassia

There are some incredible tools out there for stylized handpainted textures or painting directly onto 3D models. I've been using Polypaint and Photoshop primarily for texture painting but want to expand my skills by exploring 3DCoat, Blender, Mudbox, etc. and would like to start a conversation on not only your fav tools and techniques but see some of your kick-ass texture examples and possibly any good tutorials. Most tuts either have horrible audio or none at all which makes it next to impossible to learn a new program effectively.

Sk0LLiE

Definitely give 3d Coat a try. It is really is fantastic for handpainted 3d stuff.
It pretty much Photoshop in 3d, so if you can paint something nice in 'shop then you can do it in Coat too.
Plus with a quick shortcut (CTRL+P) you can send stuff quickly to Photoshop for cleanup and then back again. Very nice smooth back and forth.
It has a pretty good feel to the 3d painting in general and you can setup the navigation to mimic other 3d apps such as zbrush for speedier learning process.

DavidCruz

 - updated i think this one is it, haven't used it in a while.
Here is my little quick hand paint help for what it is worth.

Some might not think it is possible to achieve texturing with zbrush but i managed to pull it off quite a few times and with lazy brush being so awesome it works out the best for me, the only thing you really need to know here is that you have to subdivide the model with no smoothing to get all the pixels to register the correct amount of ink you want on the design.

As well as have the model already unwrapped that is about it, you go to texture size put the size you want go to create new from polypaint click it texture shows up on top, click clone texture moves to left hand side export, there is your texture ready to edit or whatever in photoshop if you want.

 Zbrush material desguised as a .jpg cause attachment doesn't allow files. (Mods can reupload? this is just a material for zbrush)
^Matcap white edited for zbrush so you can see the texturing all nice and neat.
Just delete the .jpg load in zbrush.

Michael_Ingrassia said:

 but want to expand my skills by exploring 3DCoat, Blender, Mudbox, etc. and would like to start a conversation on not only your fav tools and techniques but see some of your kick-ass texture examples and possibly any good tutorials. 

RyanB

3DCoat was on sale last Christmas on Steam.  Watch for Steam sales soon.

Michael_Ingrassia

I use polypaint currently but looking for options. 3Dcoat seems awesome. Blender artists are also doing some amazing stuff with 3d paint

JedTheKrampus

3d Coat has the best-feeling brushes and a pretty good layer stack. Paired with Krita for projection painting it's pretty close to ideal.

I also like the general feel of Blender painting but I've had issues with seams showing up in the projection.

Wendy de Boer

Another 3d-Coat user here! I really recommend it.

As for kick-ass hand-painted texture examples, I'm a big fan of Pugui: http://blog.sina.com.cn/pugui2001

lorenzo_di_pietro

A small list of artists that use 3D-Coat for painting in their pipeline:
Kelvin S Tan
Hai Phan
Jeff Parrott
Laurynas Jurgila
Ryan Ribot

Some of my favourite 3D-Coat tutorials:
http://3dmotive.com/series/modeling-for-mobile-games.html
https://gumroad.com/l/itsalog

f1ey

West - 3dcoat, East - BodyPaint3d in China and KR ppl prefer BodyPaint over 3d-coat. In China as I know all textures done in BodyPaint3d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM-ud2P9p_8
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjEwOTM3ODQ0.html?from=y1.7-2

Justin Meisse

I'd record a 3dcoat tutorial but I have an old Cintiq so I can't do 1080p, I did an old one a while back but my computer was week and the screencap software bogged everything down.  Maybe I could be convinced to do a new one...

Here's my latest project, painting 6 separate tiling textures at once