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Best tool for weight painting?
I'm learning rigging, and looking for a good tool for weight-painting. I'm using Maya but the weight-painting tool in Maya is confusing, I cant understand. Sometimes the influence of one bone affects other bones, and I have to repaint... I remember the weight-painting process in Softimage was so easy to do, why it's so… -
First attempt at hand painting
Finished: Concept: I put my dinosaur on hold so that I could learn to hand paint the textures. The other day Udemy had some tutorials on sale so I bought up all of the hand painted and mobile ones they had. Started watching the Tyson Murphy hand painted tutorial and this is where I currently am: -
Re: Scout Hover Bike — Sci-Fi Checkpoint Bay
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed response, I really appreciate it. :) You're absolutely right that concept design is its own discipline, and that's one of the reasons I'm not treating the AI images as blueprints. For me they're more of a starting point to generate ideas and point me in a general… -
Hand painted tileable textures - Comparison
Hi, I have done a project for uni which involves creating some hand painted tile-able textures using 2 different methods. The first is just painting the texture the normal way in Photoshop, and the second is using Zbrush, or any other sculpting software to create the 3D sculpt of a texture, then baking out the AO, normal… -
painting textures where to start?
Hey there! I just got a wacom intous pen recently to learn how to paint textures for 3D models and I don't know where to start! I need easy tutorials for begginers since I never painted anything in photoshop, anything like rocks/wood/dirt etc or even something I could draw and paint. Thanks in advance! -
digital painting tutorials
Hello PC, I am trying to dig in digital painting world, and want to spend some money on tutorials. I am completely new to painting. Maybe some of you could advice one good dvd, that will explain theory of light and color, and one dvd that will provide some basic sketching and painting techniques. I see a lot of amazing… -
Painting skin tones
Everyone always says you need to have skin tone variations when you paint flesh. Subtle blues, red, greens 'n stuff. But how do you know where to put these colors? Do you just chuck them anywhere you think they look good? Or are there anatomical reasons for putting colors in certain places? I'm struggling a bit painting… -
Re: Mutant Big'en Concept Piece - New artist, first project - Zbrush.
Poly Paint Major Lag Issue! At my wits end today, loaded up the model, switched to low res view and tried to paint as I normally would, encountered huge lag on screen, almost unusable…it wasn't doing this last night! I tried to dig around on-line for answers, read in a forum that over a million active points can cause… -
How to - Vertex Painting (Unsolved)
Hi folks, Wondering if someone could shed some light on vertex color painting. I've followed a couple tutorials, looked a the 3Ds max docs and generally tinkered with the Vertex paint modifier. Seems I cannot paint the colors on my mesh vertices, only the fill and erase tools work.… -
paint on model with normal map shader
Do any of the tools for painting on 3d models (Zbrush, 3DCoat etc) allow you to paint on a model that has a normal map shader on it, so you can visualize the final look more easily and paint a diffuse map that matches the normal map and such?
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