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Character Face Texturing in Substance Painter

Course Overview

In Character Face Texturing in Substance Painter, you'll learn to texture a character's face from scratch using Substance Painter. This course covers the entire workflow, from the first brush stroke to the final skin shader tweaks. By the end, you'll be able to texture your characters using simple yet powerful techniques.

Focus on the Face

This course focuses exclusively on the face, the most complex and important part of character texturing. You'll explore topics such as facial contouring, makeup, micro-detailing, character personality, and solving common texturing challenges.

About Your Instructor

Henning Sanden has 15 years of experience in 3D art. He has worked on films like Alien Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean, Venom, Pacific Rim: Uprising, and Batman V Superman. The techniques in this course are drawn from his extensive career as a texture artist.

Covering the Full Texturing Process

Exporting and Importing Models: Start by exporting models from ZBrush and importing them into Substance Painter, covering all steps and settings.

Skin Detailing: Add skin details using tileable maps and the Warp Projection feature.

Smart Masks: Learn techniques to speed up texturing with Smart Masks.

Color Mapping: Create color maps layer by layer.

Roughness Maps: Develop simple, powerful roughness maps to enhance your characters.

Skin Shading Made Simple

After the base maps are done, bring the textures into Arnold to set up the skin shader. This process, often complex, is made simple and easy to understand. Using the FlippedNormals Eye kit, you'll make your character feel truly alive.

Professional and Tested Workflow

Learn a holistic texturing approach, covering both texturing in Painter and skin shading in Arnold. This fast, industry-proven workflow provides a solid framework for your future characters.

Skill Level

This course is ideal for 3D artists with intermediate knowledge of Substance Painter and Maya, looking to elevate their character texturing skills. Familiarity with both Substance Painter and Maya is recommended, as the course focuses on texturing and shading workflows.

Introductory Courses

For those new to the software, we recommend our Introduction courses:
Introduction to Maya
Introduction to Substance Painter

What You'll Learn

Exporting models from ZBrush and importing them into Substance Painter
Setting up Smart Masks for efficient workflow
Using Warp Projection in Substance Painter for quickly adding pores
Using custom alphas to add skin details
Building a color map step by step
Making roughness and SSS amount maps
Exporting maps from Substance Painter
Exporting displacement maps from ZBrush
Skin shading in Arnold
Utilizing a tested and simple texturing workflow

Course Content

To achieve realistic texturing, especially skin, you'll need external resources. We provide low-res versions of these resources so you can follow along without additional purchases.