Blender & Substance Painter: Create a Realistic Bathroom A-Z

This course will teach you how to make a bathroom that can be imported on any 3D software or game engine.

Created byAlaa Eddine ZAIR

Last updated 1/2025

English

What you'll learn

Perspective matching—how to match your camera to a reference photo
Modeling of a bathroom interior, including furniture & fixtures: extruding, separating faces into their own object, snapping, etc...
How to use object instances
Importing 3D models from Sketchfab
UV unwrapping
UV Packing
Exporting models as FBX & Importing FBX models into Adobe Substance 3D Painter
Blender & Substance 3D Painter workflow: how to texture your model without assigning color ID maps to it
Blender & Substance 3D Painter workflow: how to export textures for multiple parts of your model in one single texture set
Blender & Substance 3D Painter workflow: my workflow will allow you to avoid redundant texture sets which require third-party software to merge back together
Applying textures exported from Substance 3D Painter in Blender
How to do 100% natural & real emissive lighting
Setting up the camera
Exporting RAW render images
Processing RAW render images in Adobe Lightroom, or your photo processing software of choice

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 2h 8m total length

Introduction: What to Expect & What You'll Learn2:44
Perspective Matching & Bathroom Modeling14:23
Modeling Bathroom Fixtures & Mirrors16:40
Modeling the Urinals & The Doors15:31
Modeling the Toilet Stalls & the Ceiling Fixtures13:53
UV Unwrapping 0114:20
UV Unwrapping 0216:43
Substance 3D Painter Workflow18:51
Lighting & Rendering15:18
Project

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Blender 3D's interface
Info around activating & installing addons, and asset browser libraries—Info on those is very accessible

Description

Welcome to my comprehensive course, where I'll share my extensive knowledge and experience in Blender & Substance Painter. Get ready to unlock the secrets of creating stunning 3D models, including the iconic Red Bathroom from the movie 'The Shining' (1980), and texturing them in Substance Painter.

For only a small sum of money, the course includes a +2 hours eight-part Video lecture series that explains:
- How to match your camera to a photo
- The workflow between Blender & Substance Painter
- UV Unwrapping
- Applying materials & textures
- Lighting & Rendering as well as setting up your camera
- Exporting a RAW render image from Blender to Adobe Lightroom for post-processing
- Blender3D export template for Substance Painter & links to free resources, materials, and some reference photos
- Pieces of advice and how to fix certain issues related to 3D models and their textures & materials

Following this course, you'll not only benefit in interior design, but also in all of your future renders. Texturing in Substance Painter is a lot easier, and allows your models to be game-ready. You can easily take whatever you textured with Substance Painter, and import it into any 3D software. Learning Substance Painter will unlock new ways of work for you, you never imagined before.

Who this course is for:

Blender beginners
Substance Painter & Blender workflow learners
Architectural visualizers
CG artists
CG photographers
"The Shining" (1980) movie fans