Photoshop Tutorials and Assets
Creating Tileable Textures
Using Photoshop to Eliminate Seams
When texturing objects in a 3D application, it is often necessary to use a texture that can be tiled. This means that when the image repeats there is no visible seam. For example, when mapping an i...
The Making of 'Trin'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
Trin was started to create a high-res 4k still image, yet evolved to become a looping ten second animation rendered in vertical HD at 1200x1920 to be displayed on a wall-mounted digital display. St...
Subsurfacing Sushi
Procedural Fish and Rice, or Finally, a Use for Maya Wood
Weekly Walkthroughs provide a complete project, including geometry, file textures, shading networks, environment maps, gobos, and lighting rigs. The aim is to teach through deconstruction of a ful...
Painting Fur in Photoshop (includes Photoshop Brushes)
Fast and Fun Techniques For Painting Fur
This tutorial is a kick start to rendering a typical kind of fur in Photoshop. You will be walked through the observations of why fur appears the way it does. From there a discussion and demonstra...
The Refinery Project
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
The Refinery Project is a four chapter tutorial that demonstrates, in real-time, how to bring a static image to life in seven hours. Starting with a static photo of an oil refinery, Alex integrates...
Creating Believable Eyes
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
There is no question that eyes are one of the most critical elements of a character. While there are several way to approach the creation of eyes, this lecture presents an intuitive and quick techn...
The Making of 'Smile'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
This 'making of' demonstration and lecture began with the decision to create a new still image and record the entire process. Using Maya, UVlayout, Zbrush and Photoshop, 'Smile' was created in eigh...
The Making of 'Fume'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
These chapters represent a technical overview of how the image 'Fume' was created using Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop. In contrast to some of my other work on Gnomonology, Fume was created without any...
The Making of 'Jester'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
This 'making of' demonstration and lecture began with the decision to take a personal sketch, develop it in 3D and produce a lifesize print. This would require the development of high-resolution de...
