Maya: Advanced Texturing

Go beyond basic textures. Learn how to create realistic wood grain, leather, brick, and fabric textures with Maya, Photoshop, Mudbox, and Substance Painter.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• How to use the exercise files

1. Texture Basics

• What is texture?
• Interview your objects

2. UVs

• UV basics in Maya
• UV workflows
• UV layouts
• To UV or not to UV?

3. Textures in Maya and Photoshop

• Review reference materials
• Remove shadows from the base texture
• Tile texture
• Texture scale
• Brick: Bump map
• Brick: Add final touches
• Brick: Begin coloring the wall
• Brick: Create spec roughness map
• Wood floor: Paint textures
• Wood floor: Create a normal map
• Wood floor: Specular highlights

4. Textures in Mudbox

• Review reference materials in Mudbox
• Bake hi-res details
• Leather: Grain paint textures
• Leather: Add cracks
• Leather: Final digital sculpting
• Leather: Block the color
• Leather: Color finalization
• Leather: Specular highlights
• Leather: Export texture maps
• Leather: Render texture maps

5. Textures in Substance Painter

• Prep your models
• Bake maps at base level
• Wall base: Color and metal
• Lamp base: Blocking
• Lamp base: Finalization
• Lamp shade: Blocking
• Light bulb: Texture channels
• Add a dusting effect
• Apply textures from Substance to Maya

Conclusion

• Next steps