30+ Metallic Texture, Pattern and Brushes

Great link to grab resources that will work great doing textures or using alphas in Zbrush. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/30-high-quality-metallic-texture-pattern-brushes-and-photoshop-tutorials/

Darkwatch – Rifle Leather Strap Process

Been getting requests on how I did the straps for the gun.

1. Did a low poly version.
2. Ran connect to add some edge loops.
3. Extruded every other row of faces.
4. Ran connect again to get edge loops in place for running turbosmooth.
5. Pushed/pulled geometry.
6. Played around in the modifier stack and found tesselate gave me a good base to work with.
7. Took it into Zbrush and moved, painted folds, smoothed, etc..
8. Ran Decimation Master
9. Imported back into Max

A pic showing just a few steps.

Darkwatch – Rifle HP Final

Some minor tweaks to the leather straps but for the most part the HP is done. Time to move on to the LP. 

Darkwatch – Rifle HP

Almost done with the high poly.

Eat3D – The Fountain – High Res Modeling

Just picked up the latest from the guys at Eat3D. Aspiring environment artists and those working in the industry should get this if they are looking to learn what’s current as well as fantastic tips on workflow.
http://eat3d.com/fountain_highres

Flickr – Atelier Tee’s Photostream

Flickr is always a great resource to tap into. One particular photostream I stumbled on is http://www.flickr.com/photos/atelier_tee/ which has fantastic high rez shots that could be used for reference, ideas, textures as well as alpha creation in photoshop that could be used in Zbrush to get nice details on trims and what not.

Trek Earth

A fantastic site for getting environmental reference and inspiration.
http://www.trekearth.com/

Portfolio & Blog

Created a page for my portfolio http://markdamico.wordpress.com/portfolio/ to open up the main page for blogging.

Zbrush – Mask By Alpha

Did some quick sketches using Stefan Morrell’s method of using mask by alpha in Zbrush to get a good base start on creating high polygon work. Baked out an AO and Normal Map in xNormal, did some shots in Max and then played a bit in Marmoset.

Texture Sites

I’ve been using CG Textures (http://www.cgtextures.com/) for the longest time but I just read about Grunge Textures (http://www.grungetextures.com/). Lots of good source with a great layout. Could end up being a good alternative to CG Textures.