[share_ebook] Simply Maya - T-Rex Texturing

The T-Rex texturing tutorial covers all the techniques used to create a realistic looking skin for your dinosaur. The tools shown in this tutorial are the UV texture editor, move and sew, as well as cut UV's options which are used for laying out the UV's of your model to achive a flat UV map. Once your UV map is complete you will learn how to take a UV snapshot of your flat UV's to import into photoshop. Once we get into photoshop you will learn how to build up layers of color so that your skin will have a realistic look with multiple color values running through it to so it appears real. After the color map is complete you will begin a bump map which will add skin texture to your T-Rex and give it the appearance of wrinkles and bumps. The spec map is the last part you will cover in Photoshop and this map will show you how to control all the highlights of the skin with more procision. Finally, we cover lighting to show off all your hard work and to get some nice renders.