Visual Development: Lesson 2

Visual Development (VSD)

Lesson 2: Diffuse

This was a slightly more complex project. You picked

either the scraper or the gear, obviously I picked the

scraper, and laid out the UVs of the object in preparation

for texturing. The scraper was meant to be harder in UVs

yet easier in creating the texture. Several techniques were

shown to us to make the UVs easier, seeing as how the scraper

was on an angle, planar mapping came into play quite a bit.

The next part of the project was to take these UVs, and

give them a texture. I was thankful that we were provided with

images of the real objects to use to make the textures, my skill

in photoshop isn't quite up to the ability to make an entire

texture from scratch just yet. But this did open me up to more

tools in photoshop, the transform/warp tool came in handy to

making the images fit the shapes to how I wanted. Also I

was given the chance to explore more with the clone stamping

tool, I think I did better than last time I used the tool, but I

still could use some practice.

The last part of the project involved taking this lovely box,

cardboard texture provided, and place a sticker and at least

one stain on it, I decided to do two. This sounds simple,

but it was a much harder process than I had thought. We got

to really dip into the process of layered textures and playing 

in the hypershade. This sticker proved to put up a fight, but after

finally getting it and the cardboard texture to play nice with each

other the stains were easier, because they were a similar yet easier 

process. 

Over all I was happy with this project, wish I was able to find a sticker

image that didn't have so much white, but I didn't want to waste too much

time when there we're more important parts of this project to still do. But 

my UVs turned out nice and clean, my texture was decent, looked better

once applied to the object, and the box turned out as it should.