modeling & texturing with maya & photoshop by alexander casanova

this is my modeling and texturing demo reel from school. this was the final version before my portafolio show in Dec 14, 2006, but ironically it was also the ruffest cut.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• modeling
• texturing
• environment artist
• maya
• photoshop

[lebello]

you need to work on your lighting the textures look almost black most of the time, other than that great stuff

[casanovaarts]

@lebello. Ya although this is pretty old, lighting and rendering were never one of my strong points, unfortunately.

[casanovaarts]

Thanks, ya that one took me a while. the funny thing is that i created that environment just to show off the machine gun and the sand bags,but ironically the environment became more interesting i think. It also took me just as much time if not more to create the environment than it did to create the gun and sand bags.

[ErfanyV]

How did you do the texturing?  Make drawings in photoshop (from different perspectives), and import them into Maya to turn them into 3D objects?

[casanovaarts]

For the texturing,after having finished the model i unwrap the UV's using the UV Texture editor in Maya,then i take the UV map into Photoshop and i create the textures by compositing other textures on top of the other.I place that texture on a material in Maya, and place that material onto the model.When i make a drawing/design,it is usually on paper.I scan it,then in Maya i create a two sided plane and texture the design onto it,this is what u will see in your side/front view while modeling

[AussieRaver1996]

do you mind if u can make a vid on texturing tutorial's? or recommend me 1?, because i made a pretty good model of a computer desk with alot of appliances, although it doesn't look very attractive, all the objects just look grey, when i colour it though its just a basic colour, i want it to be like real life textures like metal for the computer monitor or wood for the desk....

[TheSoloist714]

I wanna be able to learn how to texture like this anybody know how or anybody know of a tutorial or something?

[StrikerxSoul]

0.59 looks like a boar..

[alx21creations]

i'm starting wtih maya and next assignment is uv mapping, i may need some help.

Nice work

[nobcapo100]

yo soy un niño y en

parte lo estoy descargando porque me di cuenta cuando vi el video de god of war que dice que el programoa es maya

[ManxElf]

Im going get a new desktop, but i want a system that would handle photoshop, maya and the best performance out of the latest games. What is best processor, i7 or Quad. Oh ye, i have founf a motherboard sli Cuda Support (P7P55 Supper Computer).

[gabrielle64]

@Dudes124

You can modify actual textures, and paint in zbrush too

[Dudes124]

once i figure out how to make good textures on photoshop, i'll be able to do things like this! B-l