A character TD will make test animations showing how a creature or character appears when deformed into different poses, and based on the results corrective adjustments are often made. Rigging is the process of adding bones to a character or defi ning the movement of a mechanical object, and it’s central to the animation process. Louring of the texture, Specular maps are generally grayscale images that map out the highlights of an object to emphasize highlights to specific areas of the object, like the white reflection of a characters eye’s for example.īump or Normal maps add realism to an objects surface as it defines the bumps, scratches and graininess, without Bump maps objects like a brick or tree wouldn’t look convincing at all as the light wouldn’t reflect off their surface realistically.

Texturing isn’t limited to just colour’s however and can achieve photo-realistic qualities with roughness, highlights and translucent effects through the use of multiple maps like diffuse, specular, and bump/normal maps.ĭiffuse maps is the most basic and necessary map as it applies to the co Different shades interacting with light Using the UV map from the previous step as guidelines, an artist can accurately apply textures to achieve the look they desire of their model.

Once UV mapping is complete, texturing and shading can commence, Even though texturing and shading are two separate processes, they both combine to achieve the model’s overall aesthetic look.įlat images usually created in various image editing software packages like Photoshop for example.

The word UV is actually the co-ordinates that indicate the axes in 2 3D vs UV viewĭ space which determines the placement of the images on a 3D object, the reason why it’s UV is because it’s the two letters that come before X, Y and Z which are already used for displaying geometry co-ordinates.Ĭreating a UV map is similar to creating a complex puzzle as you have to arrange the pieces of the unwrapped model in a coherent way that the texture artist can understand. (Huff’n’Puff, 2015) Is the process of taking the surface of a 3D model and flattening it into a 2D representation in order to apply texturing accurately, think of it like skinning an object and putting this skin on a canvas so you can paint it’s surface easier. Major parts of the 3D Production pipeline are: When companies finish their pre-production phase they enter the next stage of development which is called the “Production” stage, It’s here that the actual work can start, based on the guidelines established during pre-production. (Gulati, 2010a)

3d production pipeline