Choosing colors and coloring/texturing.

bounchfx

Hey guys, I'm kinda stuck at the moment, and was wondering if anyone had any advice on this..

How do you guys go about picking your colors when you are texturing an object or character? right now I am working on a weapon but I got to the texturing part and my mind just goes blank and I feel like ass, so I just place down "base" colors for parts of it and it just looks like ass.

Any tips or anything?

Thanks

PolyPutty

I suggest either taking a class or buying a good book on color theory.

fritz

are you working on a real weapon? if so, just look up some reference. if you are working on a fantasy weapon...keep looking up reference. then...experiment, experiment, experiment. and do some tutorials out there.

here's a good place to start:

www.poopinmymouth.com

bounchfx

yeah you see I totally agree however that won't help me today that will help when I am finished with the class and or book

bounchfx

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are you working on a real weapon? if so, just look up some reference. if you are working on a fantasy weapon...keep looking up reference. then...experiment, experiment, experiment. and do some tutorials out there.

here's a good place to start:

www.poopinmymouth.com

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yeah it's fantasy, and I've been to poops site a lot, didn't realize there were tuts about texturing there I'll have to browse around there more, thanks!

I'll start looking for more reference too

conte

more nature draw and oil/guache paintings

bounchfx

Daz

http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php...e=0&fpart=5

fritz

even tho it's fantasy...man, there are a jillion images out there you can just find googling. look at how they "bring out elements in there colors/highlights. start with the base color and build on that. also, you can never ever ever go wrong w/complimentary colors. if you have slapped some blue down...throw some orange in there. you got some violet...throw in some yellow. start a pimping thread to show your progress and ask for crits. take the crits well and you'll get some good advice.

bounchfx

Yeah I've been meaning to start a project in my free time while I'm here I'll get that up sometime, but I don't think I can show this lol.

Ryno

Sometimes I'll just look through a bunch of random reference and texture images, pick a pretty one, then do color picks from any of the elements that I like.

Panupat

Easy way is to pick shots from films or games. Going for futuristic style, look at Halo 2. Going for medieval style, look at hmm... lord of the rings? Those are good starting point.