As for tutorials on handpainted stuff... The first thing that comes to mind is Ben Mathis' older character creation tutorials. http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorials/ His second character tutorial uses an app called Bodypaint3d, to paint textures in 3d basically. If you do not have access to this tool, you can replace it…
Ahh screw-it. I had some extra time this morning, so here is a mini tutorial, that is 3dsmax specific. Note1: All of the edit poly operations (steps 5-8) can be done in a single edit poly modifier, I did it in separate modifiers because it was easier to screenshot. Note2: The last three steps (10-12) are only needed if you…
Thanks so much for answering! I'm in the process of trying to follow your steps and I found this tutorial (https://blog.turbosquid.com/2013/11/06/making-a-quad-sphere/) to help me with the subdivision of the cube into a spheroid (I've never done it before) and I got to step 3 which looks like what you have in your step 2.…
So I'm following this Pokéball tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPq0QF2vbBg) and I noticed comments under the video about bad topology, so I thought I'd try to tackle learning that part early. I had this "clever" idea to cut off the messy top off the standard sphere and replace it with a geophere (they are more UV…