Texturing

another section of the list is complete weeeerrrhey and am i glad to be through this section...dont get me wrong, im glad ive started to tackle the topic that is texturing but my lord its offputting when maya keeps crashing and not saving what you had saved...the amount of times i had to repeat actions was just annoying. 

Anywaaaaaays so heres the break down:

The hair and body of the model is actual colour applied to selected faces along with layered textures including a brownian as well as finger prints (though i found this a very tight line between it looking complete naff or invisible). I think it has some sort of reflection of plasticine though. The face i originally applied colour to but it looked very odd as there was no definition around the eye sockets....so i decided to UV map it and had all sorts of fun with gaps emerging etc. It was good fun creating layered textures in photoshop, it felt more creative than simply applying colour, however the process was a fine art of tweak tweak tweaking until correct...perhaps if i wasn't so pushed for time, this element wouldn't annoy me so much...however i think the result is looking ok...im not a texture genius but its looking good for my first ever attempt (times about 20 versions) You can see some odd patches emerging round the leg and on her dungarees though and i dont know why that is? I may have to ask the expert mr grigsby see what he says. Another issue, although i thought Jamie had helped sort it for me, was the colour bleeding slightly onto the different areas...this doesn't happen if you keep the parts combined and vertices NOT merged...however...after reading dave's blog it seems the verts need to be merged for painting weights so i guess i'll have to sacrifice the texturing this time. Its not a huge problem...more another annoyance to add to the list....along with crashing computers....o....dont freeze *heart stops*.....no.....no were ok....save save save (anyone else feel their life is a near on heart attack?)

pictures innit lad