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MAGIC UV

 

BLENDER. UNWRAP UV'S TO SQUARE OR CIRCLE

Unwrapping your uv's to square or circle using Blender

UV MAPPING IN BLENDER 2.80

Uv mapping tutorial for Blender 2.80 by Daniel Bystedt

WORKING WITH TEXTURES

Very useful tutorial about creating tileable textures using Photoshop. When you have different shadow levels it seems a nightmare to fix it, but just a few of Photoshop steps to get it. Take a look to this (and others) tutorial by Neil Blevins

 Probably you know textures.com (previously cgtextures) one of the most popular textures resources site. There you can find another tuts about textures  and, of course, tons of texture for free or commercial. You only have to sign up.

DIGITAL SCULPTING SOFTWARE

Artist: Damien Lam

Nice way of modeling is sculpting and then take your work to Lightwave and finish there the job.

ZBRUSH 4R7
Powerful tools, retopology and painting textures included...and GOZ connection with LW!!


ZBRUSH CORE
Reduced version fo 4R7, not such powerful tools as mentioned above but interesting


3D COAT
Retopo and texturing tools


BLENDER
The most competitive price (FREE!) and nice tools. Not nice texturing tools, but a lot of plugins to work with mesh... sadly not available in LW some of them like great retopo tools



SCULPTRIS
Nice for discovering sculpting... and also FREE!

ZRÍNYI'S CHARGE

I just can say ABSOLUTELLY AMAZING JOB by Zsolt Ekho Farkas

ZRINYI'S CHARGE


Visit here the making of 

MIXING TEXTURES AND SHADERS

I love it :)

SKIN SHADING AND TEXTURING

Let's mix a few resources to get a nice skin . Take a look:
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Vamos a mezclar unos cuantos recursos para conseguir una piel chula. Echad un vistazo:




The amazing tutorial by James Busby: "The patient" at 3DTotal tutorials

And a classic VAughan's tutorial

BAKING TEXTURES FROM H-POLY to L-POLY

By Mentalfish AKA Petter Sundness. Baking textures from a High poly object to another Low poly object.

Detailed description HERE AT NT FORUMS by SKONK

WIKIHUMAN PROJECT

http://www.wikihuman.org

The Wikihuman project is a collaborative by the members of the Digital Human League to advance the study of digital humans. For more information on the Wikihuman project, please visit their blog at wikihuman.org

HERE you can find models, references, scenes, images, etc to play with

An amazing video example you can find in that blog wikihuman.org



Facial animation test from mathieu aerni on Vimeo.

KRITA: FREE TEXTURE EDITOR

Copyright Ramon Miranda

Amazing freeware for editing images: KRITA. It includes predefined texture templates (1k,2k,3k,4k...8bits,16bits) to work with. Probably not Photoshop but a serious and no-piracy alternative.

https://krita.org

There is nice stuff in the KRITA SHOP also:

Software de edición de imágenes gratuito, KRITA

Útil para editar texturas. Incluye plantillas para crearlas con medidas y profundidad de color predefinidas. No es Photoshop pero es gratuito y por tanto, no-pirata :)

Material interesante en su TIENDA ONLINE

IMPROVE YOUR TILING TEXTURES

Have you found textures like this?

When you try to tiling it you get this result:

Do you want to solve it? Take a look to this CreativeCow tutorial and improve your textures

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Si encuentras problemas como los de arriba repitiendo una textura, échale un vistazo a este tutorial de CreativeCow sobre cómo resolverlo usando Photoshop

FREE TEXTURES

Nice thread at Creativebloq about where to get free textures.
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Buen post  en Creativebloq sobre donde encontrar texturas gratis

UV TEXTURING THE EASY WAY

TREETOP MEDIA shares interesting tutorials about UV mapping. If you are an advanced LW user take a look anyway.
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TREETOP MEDIA comparte estos tutoriales sobre UV mapping. Aunque seas usuario avanzado de LW echa un vistazo

CREATING A CHARACTER : NOT LW

Not LW (Maya and Mudbox) but it's applicable to our software. How to develope a character, the sculpting process, working with normals,etc

By Mashrru Mishu
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No es LW (Maya y Mudbox) pero es aplicable a la hora de crear con nuestro software: desarrollar un personaje, el proceso de sculpting, preparación y uso de normales, etc.

Por Mashru Mishu

LANDSCAPE TUTORIAL

Old but one of the most interesting tutorials you can find about landscape creation
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Antiguo pero quizás uno de los más interesantes tutoriales sobre creación de terrenos

BOOTS

Amazing. It looks so easy but it's so hard. More info at NT Forums
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PArece tan fácil y es tan difícil. Más info en los foros NewTek

HEADLIGHT - FOCO COCHE/MOTO...

Tutorial. Not Lightwave ( Max ) but easily adaptable and ingenious. From DM Multimedia.
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Tutorial. No es Lightwave, pero es fácilmente adaptable e ingenioso para resolver una luz de moto/coche/etc.

PAINTING HARD SURFACES

Not only LW, nice tips.
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No sólo para LW, consejos muy chulos.

DIFFERENT TEXTURES FOR CLONES/ TEXTURIZAR DIFERENTES CLONES

How to get different textures for clones of the same mesh?

The answer is...

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Conseguir que cada clon de una misma malla tenga diferentes texturas. Willmot tiene un nodo para eso