3D Coat: Smart masks, smart materials

Finally we start looking a how these masking ideas are integrated into smart materials.  We create a simple multi-layered material to understand how the system works.  We use textures to break up procedural masks.

We spend some time fine tuning the parameters of our material then work on Integrating multiple layers of procedural masks.  

We start using a real model and applying voxel PBR materials to it ina firstpass before we move to the paint room with a retopo'd object

Creating materials in Voxels and paint room. Then we import a pre-retopo'd version into paint room to begin the real job of painting a Uvs object with all the bells and whistles

Geometry masking concepts using connective picking and some fast methods to paint the whole model or individual parts of the object and start building our first Smart Material

We continue the development of the first robot smart material including some tricks for using normal maps

First test paint of our new smart material.  We experiment with subtractive painting - filling the whole layer then erasing object by object

We add grime and dirt using some of the preset dirt materials included with 3D Coat and do our first test renders.  We add a decal

Creating a paint chip material to augment the look of the robot

In this video we add some quick text details to the model

Some test concepts materials for the eyes and a 'carbon fiber' looks for some of the interior moving parts

More editing on the light materials

We export the model and textured to Maya weher we add the illuminated materials for the final look of the rendered model