#3D COAT ALPHA FADE.IMPORT SKIN#

I also used the different skin colors to vary the color of skin from the normally darker skin of the forearms or forehead, to the lighter skin on the under sides of the arms and other areas that never see the light of the sun. By using skin textures of two or three different values and randomly spraying them onto a base coat of skin, you can quickly produce a very nice skin texture. I especially think the pattern of capillaries can create a splotchiness in the skin that you rarely see accurately depicted in most 3D artists’ skin textures. Our skin has all kinds of color variation in, not just due to moles, freckles, and age spots, but also due to variations in the size and frequency of pores and fine wrinkles of the skin, and the underlying structure of muscle, fat, and capillaries. I also would switch to a lighter or darker skin texture and spray that on lightly to get extra variation. It is realistic because it is not a uniform, perfectly blended, single color. With the right Draw Size setting, you can get spots of color of around 7 mm on something the size of an arm or face. Using the ZBrush Simple Brush, one of the textures, Textures:Transparent ON, one of the circular alphas that fades out at the edges (or any alpha with Radial Fade turned up a bit), and the Spray Stroke, you can quickly cover an entire body in a very nice, realistic flesh color. (I may try that in the near future.) I pasted these circles of texture onto a black background and imported into ZBrush. I just wanted skin colors, not the close-up texture and hair. would make the whole texturing process much faster and easier.įor the texture above, I cut rough circles of skin textures from different places on a photo, obtaining several different color values of skin from one photo. This is a pretty fast method for basic skin, but obviously having photos of eyes, eyebrows, etc. However, I basically hand painted this texture.

I just recently figured out this cool method of painting skin (using small patches of skin photo-textures with a ZBrush paint brush).

Marcel, great illustration of your techniques! Hello! as i had some emails from beginners who didn’t understand that topic of textured models by photos, I have keeped the different states of a little work i’ve done during that late afternoon… first, in one, ther is of course the beginning: a 3d model, here a 3d sphere… in 2, the 3d model has been snapshoted, and i have added on another layer the thing on his eyes of course i have further modelled the whole thing now, I had save the z document, and export (in doc palette) the document to a 2d application here photoshop in photoshop, i open the document: careful: don’t move, or resize just let it be as it is then i use a photo of my eyes, making “big” eyes for the shoot the photo is in 3 then i begin to cut part of the photo, applied these parts on the corresponding parts of the model it’s step 4, or, as it is useful to understand well the making off if you want to try, the single step i post after then i paint the “link” between the photographics parts, and i add the different things:

3d coat alpha fade.import