Model and Texture a Stylized Dungeon for Games

Name: Model and Texture a Stylized Dungeon for Games
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Learn the skills to create amazing models and textures to build a stylized environment from start to finish!

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Created by3dmotive LLC

Last updated 9/2016

English

What you'll learn

Model and sculpt stylized assets for games
Define and paint stylized materials like metal, stone, and wood
Sculpt and bake normal maps from a high poly asset down to a low poly object
Create Tileable textures using ZBrush and Photoshop

Course content

4 sections • 41 lectures • 6h 41m total length

Download Course Files Here!0:04
Introduction to the course0:44
Preparing our Maya Scene4:37
Blockout in Maya13:48
Modeling the Pillar15:26
Modeling the Door12:37
Model a dungeon door from block out to final state, shaping the arch with stone and thickness, adding wooden beams, iron pieces, and a door handle with pillar-inspired consistency.
Refining the Door Model11:25
Modeling the Walls4:57
Modeling the Props10:28

Introduction to UVs and Sculpting0:41
UVing the Pillar15:29
UVing the Door7:14
This lecture guides you through refining a stylized dungeon door: cleaning up geometry, repairing arches, aligning planks, and preparing UVs for export to 3D code to show the door opening.
Refining the Door UVs5:48
Tiling Textures Preparation9:25
Sculpting the Pillar7:12
Sculpting the Pillar (Continued)10:29
Refining the Pillar Details5:04
Wrapping up the Pillar Sculpt10:01
Sculpting the Door19:26
Finishing the Pillar and Sculpt Wrapup10:17
Finish the pillar by sculpting stone ornaments, applying bevels, trims, and clean outlines. Prepare for texture baking onto a low-poly model in the next module by detailing ornament edges.
Sculpting a Tiling Texture7:50
Export the model and plane to create a tiling wall texture, rotate blocks at borders for natural variation, and prepare heightmap and ambient occlusion for the texturing phase.

Introduction to Baking and Painting0:36
Baking the Pillar15:48
Learn how to bake a stylized dungeon pillar from high poly to low poly, splitting ornaments, creating cages, and baking normals and ambient occlusion maps for game engines.
Baking the Door10:55
Baking the Tileable Texture16:22
Break down tiling textures and bake a tileable brick texture for a stylized dungeon by decimating the mesh, tiling bricks on a plane, and baking normal and ambient occlusion maps.
Tiling Texture Compositing9:17
Tiling Texture Coloring16:00
Tiling Texture Wood Example4:03
Pillar Paint Preparation14:00
Painting the Pillar10:54
Wrapping up the Pillar Paint16:24
Wrap up the pillar paint by refining metal details with hard light, bright highlights, rust, and stone color variation for vivid texture.

Introduction to Wrapup Overview and Scene Composition0:38
Painting the Door13:03
Refining the Door9:54
Add larger light and shadow details with two layers—lights at 50 percent overlay and shadows at 50 percent multiply—to deepen door texture, then enhance wood, metal, and stone textures.
Painting Door Details11:27
Apply metal detail to the door with layered hard light, darker and brighter spots, rust, and sharp edges to create a polished, stylized dungeon look.
Door Paint Wrapup8:55
Rebuilding the Scene in Maya15:48
Final Composition in Maya16:30
Rendering in Marmoset12:51
Render the stylized dungeon in Marmoset by applying textures and materials, setting up lighting with blue and red accents, and placing doors, holes, and scene props.
Finalized Rendering, Composition, and Course Conclusion14:42
Bonus Lecture: Further Learning with 3dmotive0:18

Requirements

Any recent version of Maya or 3ds Max (The course uses Maya LT, but a modern 3d modeling app and an understanding is needed)
Any recent version of Photoshop (CC is used in the course)
ZBrush 4R7, or any version that includes Dynamesh
3DCoat
Marmoset

Description

In this course we will be going through the process of creating a small stylized dungeon environment from the blockout stage to the final presentation. I will be guiding you through the process of modeling the low poly assets and show you different techniques of UVing. We will then take our assets into ZBrush where I will be showing how to define all the materials that you will find in this environment. We will use some of the ZBrush sculpts to render tiling texture flats that we can composite in Photoshop. I will then be guiding you through the process of painting the textures for a few assets so you can reproduce this process for the remaining models. Finally, we are going to set up a scene in Marmoset for the final presentation. By the end of this course, you should be able to create and understand the workflow that I use to create stylized environments like this one.

(Students - please look under Section 1 / Lecture 1 downloads for the source files associated with the lesson.)

More about the Instructor:

Tobias Koepp is an accomplished environment artist in the games industry. He started his career as a student in the Netherlands where he had the chance to work as an intern at Guerilla Games for about half a year. He is now currently working on his first full-time job as a 3D artist at an outsourcing studio in Spain. I’ve always been fascinated by hand painted and stylized art and work hard to turn this passion into a job.

Who this course is for:

This course is for students that have a basic understanding of modeling, sculpting, and texturing that want to bring their stylized workflow to the next level. It’s also meant for those who have only purely painted their textures without using any normal map baking and will introduce this to their workflow.
This course is not for people who expect a realistic-styled approach to the creation of an environment, as this will not be covered in this course.

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Blocking out and Modeling the Objects for our Scene9 lectures • 1hr 14min

Uving and Sculpting our Details12 lectures • 1hr 49min

Baking Normal maps and AO for our Sculpts, and Starting our Painting10 lectures • 1hr 54min

Painting the Door, and Compositing our Scene in Maya10 lectures • 1hr 44min

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