Texturing a Human Face – Day 1: the UVW Unwrap
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.
The first video will be 30 minutes 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). The second part of the series will be an hour and a half, and will cover the process of texturing a face with very little or no photo texture, in Photoshop CS3.
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Thank you for this!
Booya Firsties!
MAn, I need to switch gears and start learining Max.
No Maya lovins!
It’s pretty much the same thing in Maya, same goes for Blender or C4D. Only real difference is the tool names.
Agree. All you need to do is choose seams and unwrap and you’re done. Of course it’s more than one click but it’s that simple fundamentally
Make this for Cinema 4D please!:)
Wow!!!, I was waiting for this!!.
Thanks!!
6:11 ish the sound overlaps but does not effect the tut. great job
amazing tut!
Cool! Nice!
Love Max tutorials……where’s the download at though?
outstading tut…
why my safari can’t see this video….
Whoa – slow the playback speed down a bit! was going so fast I got a headache just from trying to follow the pointer! Other than that, very good manner of tutorial, I just really couldnt keep up – and Im not a beginner on max.
looks like you are lsitening to some song in the tut…haha, what is it?
I´m trying to adapt it this technique to Cinema 4D…just have to model a head first.
Nice, but u can’t push forward in the video =( Annoying hehe…
But thank u very much!!!
no open please”
this video not work
is there a direct download link to the video?? i want to watch and i have a 2day aftereffects batch render going on in bg and this new safari ‘update’ seems to act funny with video playback while i do bg renders. (don’t u love mac updates?) Jesus Hezalapholous Christ!!!!!
Sorry there are no download links to the videos. I am currently looking into why the video is not playing properly, so should be working shortly:)
thank you!! and great response time 2!
peace.
I am still waiting for a reply from our video host. I will reply here as soon as the issue is resolved.
Fixed! Sorry for the delay!!
uvw unraping is fine
When I used 3DS Max, I sometimes used Pelt mapping, just to pull the ear apart, so nothing overlaps. Then relaxed slightly, to keep the shape. I also use select overlapped faces, and relaxed those. :)
Nice tutorial!
i want to download this 3ds max tutorial….
please help me how to download this tutorial….
this is amazing
wht the hell is this
mean ya its a nice tutotial bt its nt playing
it takes sooo much of time
plz add this on you tube or on torrent
amazing Effect
Love from Anandapur, Nepal
new into UVW unwrap
wish i could get the project file.
if u have a link mail me : a1y25@hotmail.com
i just wish if he explain more on what he did on the broken edges and the breaking too
hello everybody this is the coolest tut i had ever seen……….this is my humble request to maker of this tut please send me the project file plzzzzzzzzzz because as i was implementing same techniques on the face that i had made was not working fine and i was getting many problems .So plz send me project file on my e-mail tanveer.singh926@gmail.com
This is not a tutorial, this is just you maping a head. If it was tutorial you would explain how you do those things and not just power trough everything. This didnt help me at all.