Absolute Beginners Substance Painter course

Create a character texture from scratch using substance painter, mastering layers, materials, procedural textures, baking maps, and rendering in Marmoset Toolbag for a lifelike head, skin, and details.

Prepare high and low poly knight assets by organizing helmet, shoulders, cape, and knee pads, name meshes consistently, and bake in substance painter with grouped exports.

Explore Substance Painter basics, focusing on layers, properties, masks, and textures, and bake textures with high-definition maps at 2k resolution.

Learn to build cape and horn materials in substance painter using fabric textures, masks, and dirt generators, then adjust roughness, metallics, ambient occlusion, and folder-based masks.

Add hand-painted gold accents to the armor by painting on a separate layer with a black mask, adjusting height, metallic values, and symmetry for ornate edges.

Discover how to apply gold textures in Substance Painter using folders, masks, and emissive channels to make eyes glow, while weaving a worm story.

Create a ground dirt pass using a smart mask and grunge map. Paint dirt with alpha brushes and procedural textures on metal and cape.

Explore baked lighting in the diffuse map, leverage smart materials and gradient masks, and apply dirt, rust, and edge details using procedural textures in Substance Painter.

Texture a sword handle in Substance Painter by applying leather, using a black mask, adding dirt and edge details, adjusting roughness and curvature, then export.

Export textures from Substance Painter for Unreal Engine 4 using a packed channel template (base color, occlusion, roughness, metallic, normal), then import into Marmoset Toolbag to preview lights and turntable.

Learn to create a compelling render in Marmoset using turntable lighting, sky, and shadow catcher. Optimize camera focus, depth of field, and render settings for clear, professional visuals.

Learn to prepare a head model for substance painter by organizing uvs, adding placeholder teeth and eyelashes, assigning materials, and baking textures for export.

Enhance a base skin in Substance Painter by layering red, blue, and yellow tones, masking and blur, refining lips and cheeks, sculpting eyebrows, and creating a lip normal map.

Explore how to enable and adjust subsurface scattering in Substance Painter, then paint skin scattering across lips, ears, nose, and cheeks using masks and layers.

Create realistic ice effects for the eyes using Substance Painter's paint layer, masks, and color adjustments, then export textures for Marmoset and Unreal Engine.

Adjust the head in Marmoset by aligning UV coordinates and exporting textures, then apply layered materials to the head, eyelashes, and teeth, refining roughness and lighting.

Finish the head in Substance Painter by painting eyebrows and eye makeup, refining lighting and skin shading with subsurface scattering, and exporting textures for Unreal Engine and Marmoset.

Bake and color a detailed hand in Substance Painter, mastering texture export, height and normal maps, roughness, color, nails, veins, and masking techniques.

Learn to finish a game hand in substance painter by adjusting color and saturation, adding fingerprints with layers and masks, exploring sub-surface scattering, lighting, and exporting textures for marmoset.

Create a character from a low-poly model with UVs. Bake textures from a high-poly, render a turntable, and export for use in Marmoset Toolbag.