Creating a Nintendo GameBoy in Blender and Substance Painter

Learn to model, texture, and render a realistic Nintendo Game Boy using Blender and Substance Painter, including baking mesh maps, smart materials, lighting, and portfolio-ready renders.

Learn to model a Nintendo Game Boy in Blender using reference images for front, right, and top views, apply bevels, auto smooth, and shading, then prepare for Substance Painter detailing.

Master boolean modifiers in Blender using the bool tool add-on to perform difference, union, and intersection, then refine a Nintendo Game Boy with bevels, shading, and array and mirror modifiers.

In chapter 3, model a Nintendo GameBoy in blender, align components to the reference, apply bevels and booleans, and fix shading with weighted normals for textures in substance painter.

Learn to model a Nintendo GameBoy in Blender, adding front and back panels with boolean cutouts, bevels, and shading; detail the dial, USB connector, and chip-like elements with arrays.

Refine a Nintendo GameBoy model in Blender by rebuilding the dial, applying bevels and boolean cuts, and aligning the left and right sides with reference image guidance.

Clean up the backside in Blender by deleting extra edge loops, fill faces to form a hollow shape, scale thickness with individual origins, and extrude faces along normals.

Align the backside reference image in Blender, then model the cartridge slot, panels, and nuts using scale, bevel, boolean, and X-ray view.

Model a battery case for a Game Boy in blender using x-ray, edge loops, booleans, arrays, and mirror to create precise cutouts for texturing in Substance Painter.

Add front and bottom cutouts to the Nintendo GameBoy model in Blender using array, bevel, and boolean modifiers, then fix shading with auto smooth and apply scale.

Apply and finalize modifiers, unwrap UVs, and export the Nintendo Game Boy model to Substance Painter, then bake mesh maps and begin texturing within a cohesive workflow.

Texture a Nintendo Game Boy in Substance Painter by building a plastic base, adding dirt, scratches, height and roughness variation, and creating variants for buttons and screen with smart masks.

Texture a Nintendo Game Boy model by adjusting base color, adding roughness variation and fingerprints, applying dirt, and using smart masks for edge wear and chip detailing.

Explore texturing a Nintendo Game Boy model in Blender and Substance Painter: import alphas as textures, organize project shelves, and stamp height-based text, stripes, and labels with fill layers.

Model the Game Boy cartridge in Blender using reference images, build with cubes and edges, apply bevels, booleans, and modifiers, and prepare for texturing in Substance Painter.

Apply modifiers and unwrap the cartridge, export to Substance Painter, and texture two color variants using smart materials, alphas, and projection painting for authentic Game Boy textures.

Export textures from Substance Painter to Blender, add stickers via projection paint, and set up with Node Wrangler and the principled BSDF.