Tutorials Decals

[Alejandro Munoz]

I Wanted To Know If Anyone Knows Any Tutorials On Decals,How To Flatten Your Models,Then Ways To Import Pictures,Textures Onto Your Models.

[Caroline]

There are the exercises in The Art Of Animation:Master, exercises 10 and 11 Plane and Giraffe. They show you the basics of decalling, but not flattening.

 

Try Colin's Texturing:

 

http://www.colins-loft.net/FaceTexture.html

 

and if you are going very advanced, Rusty's Facial Layered Mapping Tutorial:

http://www.virtualmediastudios.com/tuts/mapping/

 

For purchase, there is the Siggraph 2006 training DVD from Hash for $50, which has William Sutton's decalling video. This is the one that made me understand decalling.

[Alejandro Munoz]

Thanks Caroline You Always Got The Anwsers.

[Alejandro Munoz]

I'm Not Seeing The Flatten Button On My Screen I Followed All The Steps In The Tutorial But I Don't Get A Flatten Button.Is It Because I Have A Different Version Of Animation Master?

[Alejandro Munoz]

I'll Just Buy The DVD.Thanks Again

[Caroline]

You have two problems - the first is that you are in modelling mode, and not in the pose window. The second is that you have not selected the rotate manipulator.

 

I notice that it says to create a pose - I do the flatten in a new action, so that the flatten can be discarded after decalling.

 

Also, while decalling, you should turn off hair - Shift 8.

[Rodney]

Don't forget Jim Talbot's very useful Decaling Tutorials!

 

http://members.cox.net/jtalbotski/tutes.html

 

Required reading...er... watching.

[c-wheeler]

Rusty has a great in-depth am/photoshop tutes on his website:-

 

Facial skin mapping technique

 

Chris

[zandoriastudios]

I'm putting my old tutorials [and new ones as well] on my new blog! Here is the link to the tutorial for decaling using the UV Editor:

http://zandoria.blogspot.com/2008/07/uv-editor-tutorial.html

[Caroline]

That's great news, Will - that tutorial is a classic that I have missed.

 

Maybe a link at the end of the blog to your other CD tutorials to purchase? I started to understand how to decal from your brilliant decalling video.

[zandoriastudios]

Soon...