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Report RSS Creating Custom Facemaps with Photoshop

This Noesis Interactive tutorial teaches the process of creating custom facial maps using Photoshop. Learn how to take a series of digital photos and edit them together so that they are ready to be mapped onto a 3D game model as a single texture. The principles of the lesson can be applied to any image editing program. If you’ve ever wanted to see your own face inside a video game, this is the lesson for you.

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This Noesis Interactive tutorial teaches the process of creating custom facial maps using Photoshop. Learn how to take a series of digital photos and edit them together so that they are ready to be mapped onto a 3D game model as a single texture. The principles of the lesson can be applied to any image editing program. If you’ve ever wanted to see your own face inside a video game, this is the lesson for you.

You will need to get the Maya application from Autodesk to follow this tutorial.


For more video tutorials we recommend you browse them all at the Noesis Profile.

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Kai-Li
Kai-Li - - 169 comments

Great! Thanks for that. I was always using only 3 pics to make a facemap and had probelms to fill the gaps. Also the hint with the eyes is really useful.

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st.ern
st.ern - - 149 comments

wow that was pretty cool, even for me and im not a texture artist.
very nice tutorial!

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Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze - - 872 comments

very handy!

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Broadsword530
Broadsword530 - - 156 comments

You should have shown it on a hl2 model or something.

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mindhacker
mindhacker - - 1 comments

Very nice tutorial to creat our models.
thanx a lot.

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formerlyknownasMrCP
formerlyknownasMrCP - - 892 comments

This looks very cool. Might help me since I've not yet tried character texturing yet.

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Noesis_Interactive Author
Noesis_Interactive - - 184 comments

Thanks for the comments everybody!! We're glad you guys are finding it useful.

Broadsword: You're right we probably should have shown it applied to an in-game model at the end of the tutorial. If you go to the Noesis Interactive ModDB group page and watch the "Noesis Interactive Promotional Trailer" you can see the facemap on a Deathmatch character at the very beginning of the video.

Thanks again everybody and keep an eye out for new tutorials and DVDs !!

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hushpuppy
hushpuppy - - 761 comments

brilliant tutorial but to advanced for me :D

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QuaziGnrlNose
QuaziGnrlNose - - 139 comments

whats the point of the 45 degree turned face the 90 degree one completely ocvered it

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Karkalas
Karkalas - - 1 comments

It was to have more neck coverage

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iamcreasy
iamcreasy - - 73 comments

THANKXX a lot..i was looking sth like this!!!...what a luck

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xxxgothicgeek
xxxgothicgeek - - 43 comments

Thank a lot! i was looking for something like this :D

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