3D Creative December 2015

3DCREATIVE MAGAZINE | ISSUE 124
Take your asset presentation
to the next level…
In this tutorial I will guide you through the
process of creating a Viking shield inspired by
the TV show Vikings. In the previous tutorial
we textured the shield using Substance Painter
and some of its powerful tools. We looked at
not only hand-painting details but using Smart
Materials and importing custom textures to
aid in the texturing process. Not only was the
diffuse texture created, but the Substance
Painter helped create the PBR textures.
In this final chapter we will export all of the
assets from Substance Painter and import
them into Marmoset Toolbag 2. We will
create a small scene in Marmoset to display
our work and also explore the new feature
Marmoset Viewer. This will enable us to export
an interactive display of our artwork that
can be uploaded to galleries. This new way
of presenting your work is becoming really
popular and would definitely make your work
stand out from the crowd.
Stencil masks: No well-used Viking
01 shield should be without some blood
stains, old and fresh. To get a realistic blood stain
would be quite difficult to do by hand-painting,
especially for this art style, so we’ll use decals
or stencils as masks to paint the details. I use
the www.textures.com texture library as they
have some very good blood splatter decals.
Once I have a few variations I’m happy with, I
turn them into black-and-white masks and make
sure they are square textures as they work better
in Substance Painter. Import the blood splatter
decals and select them in the Texture tab. Drag
this stencil texture to the stencil section of the
brush properties and it will now be overlaid over
the viewports.
Dried blood splatter: I prefer to use
02 the 2D viewport for this as it gives better
precision when painting. I’m starting with dried
old blood so it’s darker in color. It also has no
shine to it, so its roughness value should be quite
high. I add a levels modifier to the layer and
change it to affect roughness only; this gives me
better control and can be easily adjusted later
on. I also add a second levels modifier that only
affects the base color to give me better control
over the color of the dried blood later on if it
doesn’t quite look right.
Fresh blood splatter: On a second
03 layer and using a different stencil, I add
some fresh blood to the shield using the same
techniques as above. As I want some blood on
the leather corners, I paint this in the 3D viewport.
Painting blood detail onto the shield using a stencil mask
Dried blood splatter painted onto the shield
Fresh blood splatter to contrast with the dried blood
I also add two more levels modifiers to give the look fresh. Continue to paint the blood around
blood a more vibrant red color, and also a lower the shield but don’t go too overboard with it, or
roughness value so it’s more reflective, making it it’ll hide the other nice details in the shield.
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