Hand-painted references

Hand Painted Desert Biome

Hand Painted Textures Collection

Desert Environment in UDK

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Game Props Textures Collection

Game Environment Inspirations

Tutorials: Game ready assets

ZBrush Workshop:
Introduction to Character Creation for Games (ZBrush, Max, high to low poly workflow)
Gnomon workshop:
Character Modeling for Next Gen Games (ZBrush, Maya, hogh to low poly workflow)
Digital Tutors:High Resolution Game Character Pipeline in ZBrush and Maya (ZBrush, Maya, Topogun, Marmoset, UVlayout, high to low poly workflow)

Youtube tutorials collection: Light Maps

UDK: Light Maps Basics - Introduction with lightmapping with UDK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eDjhOtiyuo

light map in Maya:
UV texture editor >> UV Sets >> select Lightmap

Open Unreal Static Mesh Editor:
Mesh >> Generate Unique UVs

Every lightmaps should have their own UV channel
2 UV channel: texturing(custom texture) and lightmap

Generate unique UVs >> apply

UDK: Lightmap UV Layout Techniques & How to Create Second UV Channel in Maya Part 2/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwUFTh1lAhA

Create UVs in Maya:

1.Create empty UV Set

2.Copy UVs to UV Set >> Copy into New UV Set

UDK: How to Fix Lightmap Light/Shadow Bleeding and Seams Part 3/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKjk049bUU

High-poly-to-low-poly workflow experiment WIP

low-poly-to-high-poly workflow

high-poly-to-low-poly workflow

Base Mesh Plants WIP

Environment Base Mesh WIP

Hand-painted Textures Practices and Experiments

Useful Tutorials Collection

Digital Tutors' Unreal Tutorial
UDK Modular Master Class
UDK Cinematics
UDK Materials
dDo and nDo in Photoshop
Game-use Assets in Maya
Game Assets Creation Pipeline

Useful Links Collection

The Desert UDK Scene Breakdown
Forbrook's Portfolio Website
Jessica Dinh's Portfolio
Game Art Portfolio Wall
Environment Sculpting Sources

Plants Concept

Animal Concept

Environment Concept