creating chara-textures

golden_apple

hello, hello!
I've never found any good tutorial which describes the making of a texture, for a human chracacter.
I don't mean the unwrapping! I mean creating the textures,
drawing them! I'm using photoshop, so how do you do, or, how can I do??
Isnt anybody here who wants to write a really good tutorial of creating textures for a human? -With some more ,extra-detailed, information about the head's texture.. ??
pleease
thx

Mark Dygert

I think because textures for models have so many differnt materials, cloth, plastic, leather, spandex ect. I doubt there will be a single way to draw every texture exactly the same. Most of the tutorials I have read have been on a specific subjects like how to draw a feather or how to draw leather wrinkles.

You might want to start thinking of each piece of the model and what materials it is made of before you start drawing, then hunt around for referance and tutorials on how to make that material. Sometimes I will pull a single piece like the soul of a shoe out of the texture because it is aranged at an odd angle. You just need the final texture have as little wasted space as possible and sometime that makes drawing on that texture an issue. How you get that final texture is up to you, google, and photoshop =P

golden_apple

i was talking of a human..
a natural human, I mean the SKIN
drawing muscles, faces, etc. I mean such faces, and skins, as in GTA, benith's tutorial, or CS..
They look simply drawn, but they also look authentic, (..in their own way )
hope, i expressed my thoughts clearly now ^^

Eric Chadwick

Here's one that people seem to like.
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~polycount/ubb/Forum8/HTML/002653.html?00019
The eyes really bug me, but otherwise it's OK.

Daz has a nice one.
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/res...lPainting.shtml
(HitmanDaz? Musta been before my time...)

More stuff here...
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/resources/general/skinning.shtml

cholden

b1ll's site is awesome too! Click around, you'll find some painting tutors

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/b1ll/

Marine

Linda Bergkvist has some good tutorials on her site
http://www.furiae.com/