need texturing help

[EricChadwick]

Hey that's pretty good. Much better than many first-timers.

All you really need is more detail in your texture. Perhaps a bump map too for skin detail.

Looks like you're painting a lot of lighting into the texture though, you might want to back off on the specular highlights (let your lighting handle that). Unless you're creating for a game with limited lighting, so you want to bake it all in.

Here's a good thread about eye materials.
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=63340

Here's a few examples of painting face textures.
http://www.bobotheseal.com/Skinning_mini-tutorial_01.htm
http://www.lost.com.tj/Ulf/artwork/3d/steven.html (click the link at the bottom)
http://cube.phlatt.net/forums/spiraloid/viewtopic.php?TopicID=402 (links in the second post)
http://cube.phlatt.net/forums/spiraloid/viewtopic.php?TopicID=14

An example of lighting skin
http://www.androidblues.com/shadetut.html

[leigh]

Hehehe cool character - I love the ears :D

Posm made a good point about the highlights - they look a little too much. Try toning those down a little :)

You should make a nice bump map to start building up some roughness to the skin ;)

The horns look luminous :surprised

[Roasturkey]

Ahhhhhh thanks guys! :beer:
i originally posted this character in the WIP section and got no replies. i was beginning to wonder if my work is really THAT crappy
:eek:


ill work on the bumps and hi-lites. and hopefully post an update soon
thanks yall!
:thumbsup:

[Roasturkey]

a little update.. i toned down the hi-lites. and added a little bump.. not sure if thats visible

http://www.roasturkey.com/images/archie5.jpg
http://www.roasturkey.com/images/archie6.jpg

[EricChadwick]

The character looks too emissive, too bright. The light is not affecting it very much, which may be erasing a lot of your bump. Take a look at the link for Ulf Lundgren's heads. He has an image of the bump map he used. Not the best bump map out there, but it does a good job in his renders. I think you need skin texture... the bumpiness of the teeny little wrinkles all over the skin.

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