Creating Hand Painted Textures in Substance Painter
In this course, you'll learn techniques that will allow you to create beautiful and believable painterly textures with nothing but a base color map. Software required: Substance Painter 2.5.
What you'll learn
Flat, painterly textures have been used as a way around technical limitations in video games for years, but with some care and the right techniques they can really take on a unique and valid look of their own. In this course, Creating Hand Painted Textures in Substance Painter, you'll learn how to make something look beautiful and believable while relying entirely on what we can do in our base color map. First, you'll explore how to create realistic looking metal effects without any real reflections to depend on. Next, you'll learn how to paint believable weather and grime. Finally, you'll cover techniques for creating organic surfaces, such as stylized wood and fruit. By the end of this course, you'll be making your own beautiful painterly textures with an understanding of the concepts and just one brush. Software required: Substance Painter 2.5.
Table of contents
- Choosing a Color Palette 7m
- How to Use the Polygon Fill Tool 4m
- Filling Colors on the Body 10m
- Filling Colors on the Engine 6m
- Making a Light Pass on the Body 6m
- Filling Colors on the Fork Lift 6m
- Filling Colors on the Front Legs 6m
- Making a Light Pass on the Front Legs 10m
- Filling Colors on the Back Legs 5m
- Painting Ambient Occlusion on the Legs 8m
- Painting Edge Dirt on the Legs 6m
- Painting Shadows on the Legs 6m
- Painting Ambient Occlusion on the Body 3m
- Painting Ambient Occlusion on the Engine 3m
- Painting Edge Dirt on the Body 2m
- Painting Edge Dirt on the Engine 2m
- Painting Shadows on the Body and Engine 2m
- Painting Ambient Occlusion on the Fork Lift 2m
- Painting Edge Dirt on the Fork Lift 1m
- Painting Shadows on the Fork Lift 1m
- Module Recap 1m
- Painting Scratches on the Legs 8m
- Painting Highlights on the Legs 6m
- Painting Rust and Grime on the Legs 10m
- Painting Scratches on the Fork Lift 10m
- Painting Highlights on the Fork Lift 3m
- Painting Rust and Grime on the Fork Lift 9m
- Painting Scratches on the Body 9m
- Painting Highlights on the Body 9m
- Painting Rust and Grime on the Body 9m
- Painting Scratches on the Engine 9m
- Painting Highlights on the Engine 5m
- Painting Rust and Grime on the Engine 10m
- Module Recap 3m
Course FAQ
This course is for animators and artists who want to communicate detail and lighting with nothing more than a color map, creating hand painting in Substance Painter.
This course will teach hand painted texture techniques like ambient occlusion and lighting, painting believable weathering and grime, and creating the illusion of organic materials with nothing but color.
You should already be familiar with normal Substance Painter workflows and tools.
This course uses Substance Painter 2.5 to create hand painted textures.
About the author
At an early age Nathan Glemboski knew that he wanted to be an animator. Through his teen years he worked in Animation Master on various indie game projects until he attended Animation Mentor in 2007. After graduating in 2009 he moved to Tulsa, OK to work at Steelehouse Productions as a character animator. His passion for animation is only matched by his excitement for the budding VR industry and it’s potential for character animation.