Week 6 UV unwrap and texture

I was worried about UV unwrap but once we got shown in Fridays lecture, I realised that it didn’t seen that hard.

I also started this at the end of week 5, as I wanted it to be explained a little bit more and then on Friday we got shown a little more and my friend helped me understand how to UV unwrap and then add texture

Firstly I started with something simple to UV unwrap. I UV unwrapped and textured one of my rocks

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Then I done the same with another rock, and made this rock darker.

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I UV unwrapped these two first as I wanted to texture the smaller models in my diorama as then I could get bit of an understanding of UV unwrap and texture before I go onto the more difficult models.

I then stepped it up a bit with my palm tree texture.

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I was very happy with the way my palm tree came out as it was quite a hard one because of the different textures I needed like I needed a different texture for the coconuts, the leafs and trunk.

With the leafs I had to make sure the centre of the leaf from the texture was in the centre of my model leaf and also I had to check whether the image wasn’t stretched on the model

I then textured the fish, this was harder than I thought it would be, as I had to make sure the scales were not stretched so this involved a lot of playing around.

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I wanted quite colourful fish to give it a cartoon feel for my diorama.

I then went a step further and remodelled the eye of the fishes, and then textured it. I did this by cutting the UV shell then removed it and textured the pupils separate from the whites.

I also tried using this image that I took outside and it was some wood that was a bit rusty and I thought it would be good for the wood in the ship.

But I struggled to change it to a texture in Photoshop and when I did, it didn’t look good anyway.

So I then took a different photo of it more straight on as this picture isn’t great to get the texture.

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however in the end I still wasn’t quite happy with it, so I got a different texture from online rather than taking a photo and I put that on instead.

This time it looked a lot better and more like a wood texture so I used it for my shelter on my island.

I wanted the wheel of the ship to look like it had gold in the middle. In Reality, this wouldn’t be possible with the weight of the gold. However with the diorama being a fictional story, I can get away with it.

Or it could just be painted yellow as I want my ship to have accents of red and yellow in them, as I want that to be the colours in their sail.

I then went on to texture my cannon, I used a brick texture for the stand of the cannon and I have accents in the wheels and on top of the stand. I also done this because the image of the bricks were stretching on top of the stand, so I decided to make them bits red and it actually looks good.

With my other tree, I wanted a cartoon tree affect.

with the body of my cannon, I wanted a rusty black metal texture and this was quite hard to find.

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And these are the ones that I liked so I decided to try all of them on the model And then use the one that I like the most.

With my island, I wanted a rock effect underneath and then a grass effect on top. And using this for inspiration of my overall look of my island.

It took a while to find a grass texture that worked on the island as most of them for stretching the texture and it was the same for the bottom of the island.

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eventually when I found the textures that looked the best, I was quite happy and proud as then I realised I’m actually a little ahead of schedule from my grant chart.

Next thing I textured was my dolphin and I done this by after I had unwrapped my UV’s, I took a UV snapshot and then put the snapshot in gimp so I could do my own texture as I wanted the dolphin grey but a white and faded in effect on my dolphin.

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I really enjoyed doing my own texture as I couldn’t find a texture I liked online for my dolphin as I wanted white and fade in to grey a effect so I painted it myself and I really liked how it turned.

the UV unwrap and texture for the flowers was fairly straight forward, I kept to basic colours for the flowers as I wanted them to have a cartoon look. and I made them all have different colour petals so they would stand out from each other.

I am way ahead of schedule for my diorama, as now the only thing I have left UV unwrap and texture is my pirate ship.