Inspired 3D: Organic Texture Mapping Tutorial — Part 1 (continued from page 4)

	[Figure 20] The top view of the model.

The Top View
The top of the bird will be textured now. Beginning with the top view of the owl produced earlier (Figure 20), scanned images of bird feathers will be positioned on the wings of the owl until the entire topside of the bird is mapped.

 

 

 

[Figure 21] (left) The entire wing of the bird with textures. [Figure 22] (right) The clone tool is used to copy the feathers to fill in the top of the wing.

1. A barn owl has a brown and gray mottled look on its back and topsides of the wings. Set the clone tool to 100% to shape a wing, using the top view as a template. Once this is done, duplicate and flip the wing texture image horizontally (Figure 23).

2. Position the flipped wing to the other side to form the other wing. You could make one wing and apply the same texture to the other wing later (Figure 24).

If this owl will receive any close attention, however, the textures should not be too symmetrical. Part of getting a photo-realistic look is to not have anything too perfect. The model is already perfectly symmetrical, so it will be necessary to add some variation to the final image by adjusting the textures.

[Figure 23] (left) Flipping the wing horizontally. [Figure 24] (right) Forming the other wing.

3. Fill in the body and top of the head, blending in the wings. Keeping different parts of the image on different layers allows for added flexibility and control. For example, despite previous color correcting, there will still be image layers that don’t match up. In Figure 25, the pattern used on the head was too bright and of a slightly pinker hue than the rest of the bird.

4. By adjusting the hue, saturation, brightness and contrast, the head layer blends in with the rest of the owl texture. Keeping it on a different layer helps simplify the color correction. Once the wings and body and head all look good, merge the layers (Figure 26).

[Figure 25] (left) Color correction on the head that no longer matches the rest of the bird. [Figure 26] (right) The top projection view of the bird with textures.

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