Exercises and Research Project Ideas

Research Studies:

• Hyper-realism study
• Photo-realistic texturing in Substance Painter
• Substance Designer
• Face Weighted normals?
• NANITE

Exercises:

• Hard Surface details and brushes
• Topology
• Realistic Texturing
• Lighting
• Parallax occlusion

Links for research:

Photo-realistic texturing in Substance Painter 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjC75r1FWU

Mash plug-in Maya

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYW-vzXz8ZU

Animated Textures

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQw380ff6SQ

Substance Designer

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFgpitTsYg