IMPORT ILLUSTRATOR SVG INTO NODEBOX 3 SKIN

Texturing: Ones you have your nice model with a more or less nice UV map you start to apply your texture - photo or programatic or a mixture of that. No fun and certainly not really creative.ģ. Its a very dull process to do this on a complex model - mostly you have to take your nice model apart and do all kinds of voodoo to get it artifact free. (there is actually a programm that stretches the 'hides' pretty similar to this very analog process).

IMPORT ILLUSTRATOR SVG INTO NODEBOX 3 SKIN

You can imagine this like taking a dead animal and skinning it then make the skin of the animal flat. UV Preperation: Now a model out of triangels looks less then realistic of course so you need to tell the programm what kind of material is on the model - here a lot of option are available - but especially for film work and characters you want something that is realistic and you do that by getting something realistic - like a photo - and alter it in such a way that it fits on your model - or you paint from scratch - now that such a picture can be put onto the model you need to flatten out the model into a two dimensional surface. About ten years ago a really nice way to model high resolution meshes came into existence called SubDivision Surfaces which lets you model a corse resolution model which is much easier to understand and alter and then generate a highres model out of it - that was the first real game changer in the 3d industry and the reason why character modelling became so 'easy' and so many people doing so many great models.Ģ. The end product is mostly always a polygon mesh with x amount of polygons - the more the higher the resolution of the model the closer you can look at it. You can scan you can push little points in 3d space you can use mathematical formulas to create substract or add simple forms or other formulas to make edges round revolve lines or extrude other lines.

Modelling: Multiple Approaches get you to a mesh model that consists of - in the end mostly - polygons.

There are basically the following six steps to get to a final 3d picture.ġ. Something amazing came through my ticker today something that is a game changer and together with another technology will change the way I work and make much more enjoyable.įirst some basics to understand what I am talking about for those that have no clue about it all.

Import illustrator svg into nodebox 3