Face photography for texture painting

# 1 03-10-2013 , 11:19 PM

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Does anybody know a good website that we can get some hd male face photography for free? I am traying to find good stuff for texture painting but can't seem to get what i want.

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# 2 04-10-2013 , 04:13 PM

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While they're not the best quality, they are free.

https://rgxb2002.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/1.jpg
https://free-textures.got3d.com/natur...ces/index.html

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# 3 04-10-2013 , 04:15 PM

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I doubt you will find the quality and accuracy needed for texture painting for free unless you take them yourself(not easy since you have to have even light and exact orphograhic views)
Here is one of the best non free sites https://www.3d.sk

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# 4 05-10-2013 , 04:54 AM

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I thought i was loosing my ability to search with google. I didn't know it was that hard to find some good face photography suitable for texturing. i checked some from 3dsk. I think it is impossible to use any of them without editing in pohotoshop first.

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# 5 05-10-2013 , 04:22 PM

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i checked some from 3dsk. I think it is impossible to use any of them without editing in pohotoshop first.

Originally Posted by goggles

If you intend to use photo ref for texturing you are going to have to use PS or some other photo editing app to create the texture, if you are expecting to just use one picture for a texture then i am afraid it's not going to be very successful as trying to line up an image with a UV snapshot simply will not be possible without bad distortion.

The technique would require you to build up your complete texture using parts of images taken from side,front and other views, this is where good photography comes in because you need the lighting to be even and the same for all images or else you will have a lot of color correcting and matching to do. 3dsk is ideal because they take sets of images for exactly that purpose.

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# 6 21-10-2013 , 09:19 AM

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jsprogg you are right. at first the variances in facial features and the lighting was annoying for me when i saw 3dsk images. i figured out it is not bad at all to have lots of facial features in skin and variances. it gives many options. but i can't tell the same about the lighting in 3dsk images. they could be better. i don't like the white light flashing in different parts of the face...

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# 7 28-10-2013 , 02:41 AM

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