cmiVFX Releases New BodyPaint UV Layout and Texture Painting Video
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Princeton, NJ (August 18th, 2010) cmiVFX launches its latest training video for Maxon’s premiere texture painting application named BodyPaint. This package allows for the most complete toolset for creating UV’s and 3d texture painting for the Film, Broadcast and Gaming industries. This training video will guide the project through a clearly defined process. Immediately learn crucial information on specific topics without slowing down your productions and wasting unnecessary time. cmiVFX continues to deliver high level detailed content direct to the topic. cmiPlayer technology was designed to let professionals access information from any computer on the internet. Whether your at work, at home, or some where in between.. cmiVFX will be there for you waiting with the information that you need to know RIGHT NOW! When it comes to high end CG and VFX training, there is only once choice… cmiVFX!
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BodyPaint UV Layout and Texture Painting Techniques
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Introduction
BodyPaint 3D offers complete control over your textures with layers, filters and tablet support while working in 3D. Multichannel stroke support allows for painting across many channels at once while working in the 3D View. Maxon’s RayBrushTM technology lets you view the results of your painting in real-time without ever having to hit the render button.
Projection Painting in BodyPaint 3D allows you to virtually tattoo across UV seams and objects. Laying out UV’s couldn’t be easier in BodyPaint 3D. This software includes three automatic UV unwrapping algorithms, including the new Optimal Cubic Mapping system.
BodyPaint is included in Cinema 4D or as a stand alone application. Either way you use it, it becomes a powerful translator, albeit a bridge, between multiple CG applications. If you haven’t learned how to use BodyPaint, then your only half way there!
Basic Tools
Before you can run, you must walk, before walking you must crawl, so
We take you through the necessary steps through out the video in order to achieve a better final result in your real world project. Whether it’s realistic or cartoon, this video will get you started with the look development that is desperately needed in CG today.
UV Layouts
3D Modeling is certainly not the beginning or end of a film, broadcast or gaming production pipeline. After the character design team creates the look of the character and the modelers create the initial 3d digital asset, it is crucial to layout each polygon for proper projection mapping in a UV set. BodyPaint 3D makes this process extremely easy compared to many CG applications. You can model your geometry in any application like Maya, Houdini, Max, Lightwave, Silo, Modo or anything that you can think of without messing with one UV. Then bring it into BodyPaint for a complete work over. We show you how!
Detailed Modeling From Painted Displacements
Often times in order to keep animators happy, the modeling team will create lower resolution poly models that can be subdivided at render time. BodyPaint allows the use of a HyperNurbs subdivision tool for this exact purpose. You can then create a painted displacement map that deforms this geometry in great detail. This technique has been the industry standard for several years now, and all technology in the near future is leaning on the same principals for detailed and deformed paint weighted geometry. Confused still? Hit the buy now button and lets get into it right now!
Color Texture Map Creation From Displacement Maps
Still reading? Wow your a tough customer! Ok if that wasn’t enough, our next step in the process is to generate our color textures by modifying our displacement maps. This way you get the look of occlusion and natural "dirtying" that occurs in creveces and corners. Use the displacement map layer to help further define color periods in your current UV structure.
Normal Maps and Execution
Normal mapping takes off where displacement mapping stops. Normal mapping can help create post lighting effects in 3rd party compositing applications, and can also help fake displacement mappings in CG renders. We show you a few tricks to keep in mind while using them. (Its a pros and cons kind of thing)
Rendering Notes
Once you have something manageable, you can start doing some render tests. many times people jump into test renders way to soon. Fortunately BodyPaint 3D has RayBrush technology and keeps you current one what it might look like during a final raytracing. We take it one step further by explaining a few tips about rendering and time management.
Final Words
When it comes to texture painting, or any kind of painting, the artist only knows when its truly complete. We work our videos in real time. You see at an accelerated pace that we achieve fantastic results in extremely little time by using proper techniques and the proper software for the task. We encourage you to enjoy this video to its full extent today. Why wait another day?
About the Author
After studying film and sculpture at the San Francisco Art Institute, Greg Kulz began working full-time as an artist in the SF Bay Area. Always interested in experimenting with new techniques and methods, Greg turned to 3D motion graphics as his new medium in 2001. Since that time, he has worked on such projects as the Team America and WWE video games, Ironman, various short films and a number of product modeling contracts for corporate clients including Sony, Panosonic and Frito-Lay. Greg’s first love remains character creation, but he also enjoys working with motion graphics, texturing, and modeling.
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