Uv mapping

Unless it’s destined to be a sculpture, a model without color will always be just a flat, lifeless collection of polygons and vertices. Adding color, even at the most basic level, can bring your...

Marking the Seams The first step to unwrap will be to mark the seams to tell Blender from where you want your UVs to be unfolded. In Edit Mode ( … - Selection from Learning Blender: A Hands-On Guide to Creating 3D Animated Characters [Book]

Yeah, allowed is what works. And it always depends of the situation. A skycube does not show close. But the better is usually the enemy of the good :)

In this tutorial you'll learn how to bake an Ambient Occlusion map, as well as a Color & Light map inside Maya using Mentalray. Ranjit will first guide you through the process of setting up...

David Domingo Jiménez shows how he models, textures and lights his robotic character, Crazy.

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professionally unwrapped UV example - by Neil Blevins

Learn the professional rules of UV mapping/unwrapping in 3D. Follow the guide!

A detailed guide on how to create a stylized character for film production.

Here's a low poly hand model by Marc Brunet, the founder of Cubebrush, with a great topology that will help you save a ton of time.

Maya modeling tutorial: create a realistic bed in Maya. In this free maya tutorial you will learn how to create a bed with the help of marvelous designer.

Does zbrush have the ability to export PRTpn maps? More specifically from a 2.5d tiled texture.

Just made this nature themed dagger, let me know what you guys think:

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Hey ladies and gents! I’m working on a shader that pans inward towards the center of the texture, so I need to find or create a radial texture coordinate map. Does anyone have such a map on hand? If not I’ll likely try …