House Painting

FUN WITH ACRYLIC PAINTS

This tutorial will cover basic tools and work-flow to get a new user comfortable with the many aspects of modeling and texturing a house. You will start off by learning how to set up image planes to assist you with the dimensions and characteristics of your house. Then we will start modeling using basic shapes to rough out the look and size of the house. Once its blocked out, we'll start adding the details using many of the modeling tools built into Maya like extrude face, and merge vertices's to start giving your project a more realistic feel.

The Elements series is a guide to 2D digital painting and can be followed in most software packages that support paintbrushes and layers. In the first volume of the Elements eBook series, we cover such topics as painting eyes, fabric, fire and smoke, flesh wounds, and fur and hair. In the second volume of the Elements eBook series, we cover topics such as painting rocks and stone, skies, skin, trees and water. Third eBook follows cartoon and comic artist, Carlos Cabrera, as he takes a basic scene, created by 3DTotal's in-house artist Richard Tilbury, and transforms it into five different weather conditions.