Digital Painting

Using Adobe Photoshop, students learn the essentials of texture painting. By observing and understanding an object's surface qualities, students acquire the skills necessary to create photorealistic textures. Starting with a reference captured using a standard flatbed scanner; students learn how to create colour, bump and specular maps, how each type of map affects the surface qualities of a CG model, and how these three basic map types work together to create a photorealistic surface.