Texturing a Human Face – Day 1: the UVW Unwrap

on Jul 20th 2009 with 32 comments
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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Texturing a Human Face

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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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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  • afroskate

    Thank you for this!

  • John Doe

    Booya Firsties!

    MAn, I need to switch gears and start learining Max.
    No Maya lovins!

    • http://www.3d-artist.dk Casper Thomsen

      It’s pretty much the same thing in Maya, same goes for Blender or C4D. Only real difference is the tool names.

      • accessoire

        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

  • Kckfm

    Make this for Cinema 4D please!:)

  • hetors

    Wow!!!, I was waiting for this!!.
    Thanks!!

  • gavin

    6:11 ish the sound overlaps but does not effect the tut. great job

  • http://www.lohrey.at tobias

    amazing tut!

  • Hooper

    Cool! Nice!
    Love Max tutorials……where’s the download at though?

  • http://noisejunkies.net Rafael Guerra

    outstading tut…

  • http://silenceylj.yo2.cn/ silence

    why my safari can’t see this video….

  • dawn

    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.

  • http://noisejunkies.net Rafael Guerra

    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.

  • riibu

    Nice, but u can’t push forward in the video =( Annoying hehe…

    But thank u very much!!!

  • Rhey

    no open please”

  • rene

    this video not work

  • vic

    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!!!!!

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      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:)

      • vic

        thank you!! and great response time 2!
        peace.

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      I am still waiting for a reply from our video host. I will reply here as soon as the issue is resolved.

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      Fixed! Sorry for the delay!!

  • chandan

    uvw unraping is fine

  • Drew

    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!

  • Vijay

    i want to download this 3ds max tutorial….
    please help me how to download this tutorial….

  • Dalia Mondal

    this is amazing

  • pali

    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

  • abdul hameed

    amazing Effect

  • Arjun Yonjan

    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

  • EXX

    i just wish if he explain more on what he did on the broken edges and the breaking too

  • Tanveer

    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

  • Peter

    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.

  • eddie

    quicktime? what do i do,upgrade it for this?????