MAYA TUTORIALS: Modelling 4: Games Modelling - Normal Maps

Normal Maps 1: From Geometry

Normal Maps 2: Using Photoshop & Nvidia

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Normal Maps 3: Using Photoshop & Nvidia (Corridor)

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Adptation: Art of: The Other Gods

Book by Adrián Alemany Alvarado

Adaptation: Atal Turnaround

Adaptation: Final Pose

Adaptation: DVD Artwork

DVD Case Design

DVD Design

Adaptation: Progress

Once the UV maps were finished I drew the texture on it and used PSD network to update it on my character. I used flat colours because I wanted it to look very simple.

UV maps

                                             

         Atal Textured

The next step was to make him pose. For this I created the skeleton using the joint tool. Giving the joints a specific hierarchy permits to simulate human articulations. Also, it is recommended to add some controllers on the joints. Then it needed a skin to make the body follow the skeleton movements. That process is called skinning, and it consists on telling Maya which vertices belong to each joint.

First Pose

Adaptation: Concept III

Atal is distressed because the Other Gods turned his master into a rock.