Gumroad – Painting a Realistic Skin Texture using Mari

What’s inside:

• – 19 video lessons + Bonus lessons (*will be added in a few days).
• – head .obj file
• – photo references
• – course description (pdf)

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Lesson 01:
Introduction to Mari Brief overview of the user interface, controls and instructor’s preferred workflow.

Lesson 02:
Texture Cleaning and Preparation How to prepare textures to be used inside Mari. Cleaning Highlights and producing an albedo­like texture.

Lesson 03:
Bit Depths Technical background behind the concept of bit depths and their importance.

Lesson 04:
Diffuse Map How to create a diffuse color channel from a set of photo references.

Lesson 05:
Shallow SSS map How to create the one of the essential SSS components.

Lesson 06:
Mid SSS map The second element needed to build a good SSS skin shader.

Lesson 07:
Deep SSS map The third SSS component and its colors.

Lesson 08:
Deep Mask Controlling deep map influence.

Lesson 09:
Primary Specular map The main specular map, regions and intensities.

Lesson 10:
Secondary Specular map Enhancing facial features and reflections.

Lesson 11:
Glossy map Tight vs broad reflections.

Lesson 12:
Bump Map Augmenting high frequency details.

Lesson 13:
Displacement textures Preparing Surface Mimic’s* textures to be used inside Mari.

Lesson 14:
Displacement Map Creating a full displacement map based on textures from previous lesson.

Lesson 15:
Eyes Diffuse map Iris and Sclera color map.

Lesson 16:
Eyes Specular map Giving life to the eyes.

Lesson 17:
Eyes Bump map Adding volume to veins and iris.