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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Dreidel toy: UV mapping

Christopher Tyler Nov, 25th 2015 0 Comments
This tutorial UV maps the dreidel toy model. It uses the Conform to Mesh Burn UV function to do this, but a second approach is also demonstrated which shows how to generate initial UV coordinate from planar mapping in order to control the size of the UV islands.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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UV Maps and Physical Size, Part 2

Christopher Tyler Nov, 9th 2015 0 Comments
This tutorial shows how to create a UV map that conforms to the size of existing Illustrator art whose physical size needs to be maintained. UV space is an abstractly measured system, and this tutorial shows how to create UV template which relates to the physical size of Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop artwork.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Specularity on Metals, primary and secondary smoothness

Christopher Tyler Aug, 30th 2015 0 Comments
This texturing tutorial shows how to use the Primary Mix Ratio to use two specular components on metallic surfaces. This allows materials with no diffuse component to interact with direct light sources.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Modeling the leg of an end-table

Christopher Tyler Aug, 26th 2015 0 Comments
This modeling tutorial shows how to use the Path Extrude tool to help generate the leg of an end-table. It also shows how to use the Skin tool, the polygon Bridge function, vertex gravity and custom grids to shape the contour of the leg geometry.
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