Creating a photorealistic human face
This is not a tutorial for bloody beginners, I won't describe every layer I place, or the exact settings of the tools. Generally I make a new layer for every step I do. Try to be a bit individual.
by Jonas Nöll
Low-poly character tutorial
This tutorial is for the creation of Low-Poly "Portable Game Res" real-time characters. This tutorial is being made with 3D Studio Max and Photoshop and all program-specific instructions are for those programs.
by Athey Nansel-Moravetz
Hard surface texture painting
This is a method I use for texturing hard surface,sci-fi type objects..hope you find it helpful knowledge of Photoshop is assumed.
by Stefan Morrell
Realistic eye texture painting
This time, I will show how, with some patience and a tablet, you can produce your own eye textures, applicable to your 3D characters. It's a realistic texture, but it can be simplified, depending of your intention and your character's style.
by Krishnamurti Martins Costa
Modeling and UV mapping a cigarette box
In this tutorial you will learn basic modeling and UV mapping for a cigarette box.
by TrueCG
UV smoothing in Maya
There has been discussion again on Maya highend3d mailing list about the UV distortion caused by polygon smoothing in Maya. I have been working on this problem and devising solutions for a recent production, and as it's hard to explain verbally in a reasonably short email I thought it would be best to sum it up in some tutorial.
by Olivier Renouard
Realistic leaf texture
Often time I noticed guys creating a tree but the leaf doesn’t look natural. So I thought of writing a tutorial, which will help you to make a realistic tree.
by Rahul Mishra
Painting a colour map
Here's a quick Walk Through on painting a colour map. I will be painting a female's skin. unlike my last painting tut which was the skin of a old man.
by Julian Johnson-Mortimer
Introduction to game texturing - video
Normal mapping. Mike takes you through the start to finish process of normal mapping. In this tutorial you will learn how to take low resolution objects and apply normal maps to them. If you aim to work in games it's well worth learning these techniques.
by SimplyMaya
Shading and rendering a Mini Cooper
This article focuses on shading and texturing the Mini Cooper, I’ll talk a little about rendering with Mental Ray but I think other people have covered that in more depth elsewhere.
by Ben Cowell
The ten top tips of texturing
The main goal of this article/tutorial is to give you a few hints and tricks that might help you to make your own textures look better.
by Jeroen Maton
Soilchild texture tutorial
Great tutorial, learn how to unwrap the model and paint textures in photoshop.
by Joshua Singh
Crab UV mapping
You've just spent many hours modeling a great model in polygons and it's looking great, but one thing is still missing, textures.How do you add the same level of detail in your UV set that you just put in to your model?
by Richard Cheek
