Easy Skinning Tutorial - Metal

[falcoknight]

I decided to do a quick tutorial, its easy to follow.

I use: Photoshop 7, Wc3Viewer

1. Select the part you want to skin.


2. Color it in the color of your choice, i prefer to start greyscale. Then take a black brush, 1 pixel, with 40-60 opacity and draw in what you want it to be.


3. With about 30 opacity brush, quickly do a small layer of shading. If it bubbles out the shading is at the bottom, if overlapping, the underpiece gets shaded and if popping in, then the top is shaded.


4. With about 40 opacity 30-50% grey brush, 1 pixel, draw in a light edge around the places with highlights, just as a basic shading start.


5. Make the brush bigger and do a small surrounding outside the line, make sure if its at an edge not to go past the original black line. Then alt-click your surrounding highlight and click rapidly around it, smoothing it out.


6. With a small 1 pixel, stronger opacity white brush, make small white dots at the peak of the highlight. In the shadow, put a low opacity highlight there for a reflection.


7. COLORING! Take a color effect brush, color of your choice and opacity of your choice and start coloring in what you want.


8. Wala! Your finished, now do this for whatever metal part you want. It also works with cloth, but it takes a bit of practice.

[erwtenpeller]

Usefull.

[Rising_Dusk]

This is actually quite useful.
And the scary thing is that even I followed it, meaning you explained yourself quite clearly.
Nicely done.

[artforge]

really useful, need to try it later =)

[Archian]

Yeah, little useful tutorial

Shouldn't this go in the tutorial section or sticky'ed here :?

[falcoknight]

Wow, thought everybody would think it was lame :P, so it wasn't confusing?

[Tiki]

Confused...

[falcoknight]

Whats confusing? Hopefuly I can clear it up for you if your not jus trying to bug me lol.

[FinalTyrant]

Nice end result, maybe you can also supply an in-game shot?

[PitzerMike]

Ok, our artists seem to like this so I guess I can approve it. :)
*awaits the ingame screenshot*

[falcoknight]

To be honest he doesn't look good ingame because I was showing technique not what my skin looks like.

[Misanthropy]

Could you explain how you change it to Greyscale? Is it just a view setting? I can't find it.

[wij]

Theres this thing called a brush and a color called grey. Atleast thats what he did here.

[falcoknight]

I just took a 100% opacity midgrey brush and trolled over it.

[A_Pillow]

Hey how do you get Wc3veiwer or whatever it is?? i cant really do anything good... plus how do you make the skinned unit go in the map?