Texturing hands

Buzzer

I'm adventuring myself in the field of texturing. I already have some experience texturing rocks and metals from a few tutorials over the net. Now that my basic AK47 is good to go, and i have finished the hand mesh, i would like to know how i can texture the hands. Maybe you guys can share some techniques, or even a tutorial on this? Thanks in advance. :poly121:

arrangemonk

photographing your one hand with a ring light in multible angles and jrojecting onto the model can work but its a lazy approach

Marine

look at hands, attempt to copy what you see, repeat until it looks good

there's no magic formula for art

Buzzer

I tried the technique suggested by arrangemonk, but it looks VERY shitty. Maybe my picture wasn't taken correctly, but there must a better way of creating a skin texture. The problem is, i don't even know how to start.

Ruz

I paint a base texture in zbrush using poly paint and then slap a photo texture over that to add a bit of realism.
The good thing about polypaint is that you can get rid off all the seams as well as getting a clean base for your overlays

arrangemonk

have you really used a ring light?

pior

Well it depends what you want to use it for. If you use film-like rendering techniques, you can go with something pretty shitty. If for games, it's different. Older game engines will require a lot of painting skills to make the skin look decent ; newer engine will rely on the careful balance between sculpt data baked to normalmaps (sculpting skills), diffuse, and spec.

Can't help ya without that info man :P

Eric Chadwick

This tut is really old, and he goes a bit crazy with layers, but he does show a decent skin result, and it could be adapted for hands.

http://www.3dtotal.com//team/Tutorials/dr_julians_texturing/dr_julians_texturing_01.php