Creating a Hand-painted Diorama in Blender

Jasmin Habezai-Fekri breaks down her process for creating small dioramas using Blender. The course covers the modeling, UVing, texturing and lighting of the scene.

The Basics

In this course, Christophe Desse provides an introduction to Substance Painter while walking through the key tools you will need to get started with texturing your assets.

Advanced Techniques

Using the techniques demonstrated in the first part of the course, Christophe Desse shows how to apply them in action while texturing a mini diorama.

Substance Painter: Pushing Your Texturing Further

This course with Jason Ord provides a look into the process of texturing using Substance Painter, taking advantage of its tools and features to create a photo-realistic, game ready 3D asset. Jason explores the use of resources and accurate references, building up layers of detail based on asset intentions, and how to leverage your layers properly to ensure a clean, high-quality result.

Substance Painter - From Beginner to Master

Learn all the necessary tools to bring your creations to life with PBR Textures. A Full guide to Texturing in Substance Painter.

If You Know Photoshop, You Already Know 3D Painter | Pablander Academy

If you know Photoshop, you basically already know how to use Substance 3D Painter... you just don’t know it yet. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how the skills you already have with layers, masks, and adjustment layers translate directly into building complex, realistic materials in Painter. It’s a smooth transition, and once you see it in action, it just clicks.

When to Stop Detailing in ZBrush and Switch to Substance 3D Painter | Pablander Academy

When should you stop detailing in ZBrush? It is one of those questions that sounds simple, but it can completely change the way you build characters. The answer is not that ZBrush is no longer useful for detail. ZBrush is still the industry standard tool for sculpting, shaping forms, and adding the features that make a character feel intentionally designed.

My Top 5 Tips To Work More Efficiently With Substance 3D Painter | Pablander Academy

In this tutorial, I’m sharing five useful tips in Substance 3D Painter that I use all to make texturing smoother and less frustrating. They’re not flashy tricks, just practical things like setting up better lighting, managing texture sets, organizing assets, auto-updating linked files, and polishing small surface details. Simple tweaks that really help keep your workflow focused and efficient

Texture details for collectibles! | Pablander Academy

Let’s say that you are into 3D Printing or want to create characters for collectibles. You might think that texturing your ideas in 3D Painter sounds cool but probably not necessary for 3D print / collectibles…. well think again. I’ll show you a cool trick I shared with the students from the previous cohort and I think you’ll enjoy.

ArtStation - How to make gradients in Substance Painter

How to make gradients in substance painter

ArtStation - How To Add Depth To Fantasy Characters: A Substance Painter Step-By-Step Texture Guide

How you should work with lighting, surface structures, and accents to make your fantasy characters stand out? Find out by checking out our latest guide on ArtStation by Dmytro Tymoshchuk, 3D Character Artist on RAID: Shadow Legends.

ArtStation - Overwatch style textures in Substance Painter

ArtStation - Grayscale Maker + 2 Smart Materials | Resources

Resources - Grayscale Maker + 2 Smart Materials, USD $4.00. THE SMART MATERIALS WILL ONLY WORK ON SUBSTANCE PAINTER 2020 VERSIONS AND UPPER, GRAYSCALE MAKER WORKS ON OLDEST VERSIONSHello!The Grayscale Maker is a quick...

Shortcuts | Adobe Substance 3D Painter

Learn how to customize keyboard shortcuts in Substance 3D Painter to streamline your workflow and improve efficiency.

Hand-Painted 3D Character for Games

Learn to sculpt, retopologize, and hand-paint a stylized undead pirate character from concept to final render using ZBrush, 3DCoat, and Marmoset. Master the full 3D game art pipeline in this in-depth, beginner-friendly course for stylized artists.

ArtStation - Get Better at Handpainted 3D Texturing - 5 Tips!

Get Better at Handpainted 3D Texturing - 5 Tips! Everything based on my own experience working on Handpainted things for the last 12 years

SimpleDiffuse - Easy Texturing

SimpleDiffuse Material Generator

Is PolyPaint Worth It? | Pablander Academy

Is ZBrush Polypaint still worth your time? Short answer: yes, especially for stylised characters. Polypaint (vertex colour) is fast, forgiving and excellent for exploring colour, value and composition before committing to textures and baking. Below I’ll walk through a practical step‑by‑step workflow that gets you from a blank sculpt to a presentable, cohesive polypainted character you can export and render anywhere that supports vertex color.

ZBrush Quick Detailing Trick | Pablander Academy

Here is one of my favourite and most effective tricks to generate organic shapes and surfaces in ZBrush. The premise is very simple: Use a random texture or photo as alpha but instead of using it to control a sculpting brush, use it as a masking alpha so you can then affect any unmasked area with more control.

Torn clothes trick | Pablander Academy

For this quick trick/tip I want to show you something really cool to create the effect of torn clothes on your sculptures. It only takes a few minutes to set it up and it works great.