Texturing a Human Face – Day 2: Painting the Texture

on Jul 21st 2009 with 12 comments

In this 2 hour, multi-part video tutorial, you will follow professional Game artist and teacher, Dan Cox, as he gives insight into his own thought process and workflow of how to go about unwrapping and texturing an existing human face. The techniques and theories that Dan teaches can be used in either video game or film work.

This is the second part of the tutorial series. It is an hour and a half long, and will cover the process of texturing a face with very little or no photo texture, using Photoshop CS3. Texturing human skin is often more simple than most think, and this tutorial shows ways to simplify the process, when perfect photographic textures aren’t available.

The first part of the tutorial is dedicated to the process of unwrapping a human face in 3D Studio Max 9 (although the theories can be applied to any UVW unwrapping tools). You can find it here: http://cg.tutsplus.com/texturing-a-human-face-day-1.

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Tutorial Video 1

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Tutorial Video 2

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Tutorial Video 3

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Dan graduated from the 3D Gaming program at Seneca College in Toronto, and after graduation, was offered a position at Pseudo interactive. He has since worked as a freelance artist for companies such as Redrover Studios and Starz Animation, and is currently working for Frozen North Productions on the Wii game "Flip's Twisted World", and also teaching at Seneca College.  

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Discussion 12 Comments

  1. John Doe says:
    July 21, 2009 at 4:59 am

    Firsties!
    These Envato site are like reading the paper in the morning.
    I’ll check this tut out after work!

    Reply
  2. Hetors says:
    July 21, 2009 at 5:14 am

    Megagreat!!

    Reply
  3. Hooper says:
    July 21, 2009 at 10:03 am

    FRIST!

    lol!

    (yes I do realize I am 3rd or 4th if I type slower maybe)

    Can we get this as a download?
    Please?

    (yes…’first’ spelled wrong on purpose)

    Reply
  4. kiith says:
    July 22, 2009 at 4:04 am

    Excellent tutorial, very informativel. Keep them coming!

    A download option maybe nice as said above.

    Reply
  5. ChaosV49 says:
    July 31, 2009 at 8:20 am

    Very well done indeed my friend. :D I hope to see more epicly awesome tutorials from you.

    Reply
  6. Clay Jackson says:
    August 29, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    Stellar! Thanks for posting this!

    Reply
  7. valentious williams says:
    December 8, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    hey am from the caribbean
    ill be gon to canada soon wat the best school for animation that i can attend
    any information???

    Reply
  8. Ted says:
    April 23, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    Thank you so much for posting these videos!

    Reply
  9. udon says:
    October 7, 2010 at 1:17 am

    thanks …great tutorial

    Reply
  10. raju das says:
    August 27, 2011 at 1:55 am

    good

    Reply
  11. ariana says:
    December 29, 2011 at 9:01 am

    great tutorial..thanks, you really helped and inspired me with it.

    Reply

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