Need help with texturing
polycounter lvl 18
I just finished my first low poly character but I've never even touched photoshop other then to do basic manipulation. Are there any great tutorials or forums to get you started in the right direction when it comes to making realistic facial textures that DOESNT include doing textures from real images.....I want to do it all with painting & brushes.....thanks
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Yozora - Thanks, im about to check it out now
The main thing you need to learn to be able to paint textures without any help from photos is to learn to paint, though. Colour theory (although that really just amounts to getting a feeling for colour, rather than really using the theory much), shading, ...
Here's a pretty classic tutorial on everything you need to know: http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
Might be a lot to take in, but the most important thing is to DO as well as read. No reason to read it all before you try anything.
Paul has a few links to tutorials here: http://gameart.jaquays.com/texture_resources.html
I don't know how many of those still work, but it's worth having a look
edit:
Haha, look what I found: http://pandemonium.planetquake.gamespy.com/html/skintips.htm
http://pandemonium.planetquake.gamespy.com/html/skintut3.htm
nice to see his website's still online.