CHAPTER 3

Texturing and Lighting a Chapter, Part 1

In this chapter and Chapter 4, “Texturing and Lighting a Character, Part 2,” you will texture and light the bust of a woman. This chapter, which contains part 1 of the project, will guide you through the following steps:

• Preparing the scene
• Assigning materials
• Roughing in the lighting
• Roughing in the textures
• Creating a custom skin bitmap
• Switching to mental ray

In addition, important lighting and texturing theory is included as follows:

• 1-, 2-, and 3-point lighting
• The UVs of NURBS surfaces
• Translucence