Noroff fagskole: T4 - Texturing the Fish

This week at Noroff, I am texturing the white marlin that I sculpted and retoped last week.

Time-budget

Idea Development

This is my mood-board. The general look of the fish will be the main diffuse texture. As for creativity's sake, I chose to add some bloody scars to the right eye, and a bloody wound on the left side of the fish.

Work

I started by unwrapping the fish, then I baked a normal map from the high poly model on to the low poly model. I used tangent space for the normal map. I proceeded with exporting the fish (.obj) over to Mudbox, where I started by making a diffuse (color) map in Mudbox.

This video shows the entire process of that.

I should have recorded all of my other work, but I simply forgot.

None the less, the following pictures below are the rest of my maps for the fish.

Diffuse map

Gloss map

Normal map

Specular map

Here you can see the different maps applied to the fish.

Checker

Diffuse

Specular

Gloss

Normal

Final

Finished Product

Render settings:

Vray

1920x1080

Adaptive

I used less time than I originally predicted this week. I thought I would be completing the assignment on Friday (06.11.2015), but I ended up completing it on Wednesday (04.11.2015)

I think the end result looks good and I am happy with how it turned out.

I am really looking forward to next week (LR4), because then I will be lighting the model, potentially with an HDRI, which will make it look a lot better.