CG ACADEMY - Advanced Texturing 1 - Creature UV Unwrapping
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This DVD is intended for advanced users and requires an understanding of the principles of UVs and a good working knowledge of the UV Unwrap tool featured in 3dsmax. The workflows on this DVD can to a large extent also be carried across to other 3d software such as Maya and XSI.


Chapter 01: Setting Up The Model
Dominic shows how the 3d model can be prepared for the unwrapping process and what tools are to be used.


Chapter 02: Unwrapping The Legs & Claws
Dominic unwraps the legs and the claws.

Chapter 03: Unwrapping The Lower Torso
Then moves on to unwrap the creatures lower torso.

Chapter 04: Unwrapping The Arms
After this he unwraps the arms.

Chapter 05: Unwrapping The Upper Torso
And then moves on to unwrap the upper torso.

Chapter 06: Unwrapping The Jaw 7 Mandibles
Then Dominic moves on to unwrap the jaw and mandibles of the creature.

Chapter 07: Unwrapping The Skull
And finally the unwrapping is completed with the skulls UVs.

Chapter 08: Hiding The Seams
With all of the UVs unwrapped Dominic applies separate UVs for a set of blending textures to hide any UV set seams.

Chapter 09: Final Layout of UV's
And Dominic completes this section of the DVD by compiling the UVs into two large sets, one per final texture bitmap.

Chapter 10: New Features In Max
Dominic explains a little about the new features added to the UV Unwrap tool in 3dsmax

Chapter 11: Defining Pelt Seams
Then he explains about Pelt Seams and then defines them on our model.

Chapter 12: Pelt Mapping
Moving on Dominic uses the new Pelt Tool to pull the UVs apart on a pelt that was defined in the previous chapter.

Chapter 13: Enhanced Relax Tool
And then he shows us how the new relax tools can be used to very quickly un-fold any overlapping UVs in our Pelted UV’s.