The following article isn’t intended to be a tutorial as such but rather a focused ‘making of’ during which I will attempt to explain a lot of my working practices and techniques. I’m going to illustrate this with Videos and images where appropriate. I have no intention of discussing modeling or sculpting techniques, as there are already thousands of head modeling tutorials out there and I really don’t think there is anything I can tell you that you wont find better demonstrated elsewhere. Instead I want to focus on the Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering and grading of this image.
There are various ways to texture a face, a lot of people tend to use 3d paint programs such as Zbrush or Body Paint, some artists still prefer to paint straight onto the unwrapped UV layout, however I prefer to use a Projection mapping / texture-baking technique. The process involves camera projecting a reference photograph straight onto the mesh and then baking the result out to the UV map, this allows me to create a distortion free base from which I can produce my colour, spec and bump maps.
Related posts:
- Photoshop tutorial: making text photo with Angelina Jolie\’s head-shot OK this is the latest of my tutorials in this...
- Simple Dodge & Burn This technique uses layers, blending modes, and brushes to achieve...
- Making Photos Dramatic Using Shadows Photoshop Tutorial The process itself, is relatively simple and from it you...
- Create dynamic distortion effects In the following steps, I’ll let you in on one...
- The making of Mystic In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the...
