It’s time for COLOUR!
Finally! Its time to get into Substance Painter and make my assets; textured assets! My approach on this will be entirely a new experience for me, whilst I did sorta mingle with it last year in character creation, I had no clue what I was doing there, and in the end resulted to doing it in Blender, but not this time! Blender cannot provide what I need for this project. I’m going with a heavy stylized look, that I can only perform in Painter, whilst I tried Designer, it was not worth the 2 weeks I spent trying to learn it in the end.
For my basecolour, I was going with a pastelle colour palette, and I also wanted it to be heavily painted, so I sought out for some colours. Any other colours I use will be derivatives of this palette, as I am planning on making use of the smudge tool to blend the terrain together. I am heavily inspired by desert canyons and their use of intertwining oranges, yellows and pinks.
Now to give insight into my painted process for my stylized look!
From this, I decided to add lines running across the main crevice of the terrain, to help signify the colours and add to the look that I was trying to achieve of desert canyon. As well as this, I also brushed over a height to make it feel rocky, surprisingly I made use of a tree bark brush I found, and surprisingly it delivered the result that I was looking for!
After the painting process, it was time to import into blender! Now for optimisation reasons, I’m going to have 3 folders for textures, a 1080p res, 2k res and 4k res folder, as I cannot slap a ton of 4k textures into blender and expect things to run smoothly, so having a variety will help my project actually run so I can render it for the finale.
Now to see how it looks in blender!
With the biggest part of my project textured, I feel so excited to see colour in my blender project at last! Its such an incredibly refreshing change and I learned so much using substance this week, I am very very hopeful for the last 4 weeks of this project to make a ton of textures and have fun with it, till week 11!