5 Great Free Texture Sites for Brush Alphas
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- In this series I will be looking at how you can add minor details to your sculpts quickly and easily using texture brushes.
This first video looks at where you can find good textures. The second will look at how you can add these to your brushes and the 3rd will show you how you can create your own
You can find this course and other free courses like this on www.gabbitt.co.uk and do ask any questions in the comments below and i will get back to you. Alternatively you can go to the discord server / discord and ask questions there or just chat and may be join in some of the competitions
1) textures.com
www.Textures.com
2) pixilogic
pixologic.com/zbrush/download...
3) Bad King
www.badking.com.au
4) www.asilefx.net/catalog/produc...
5) forums.3dtotal.com/showthread...
Buying pre made packs
Johnathan Mueller scifi pack:
gumroad.com/l/SFAMPv1/Alphas4...
Special discount link
Jonas Roscinas
www.artstation.com/johnnrosh/...
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It's from GearBest
I use a graphics tablet to paint with and I can recommend this one for the price and responsiveness it's probably the cheapest of that quality as well.
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wow I just wanna say thank you to everyone that downloaded my Sci Alpha Maps Pack vol 1! I just felt like it was time that I could give back to a community, Grant Abbitt was so kind to let me share it with you all. I hope they serve you all well, and don't worry I'll be updating it as I make more for my own projects (making these alpha maps has almost become an addiction XD)
well done on the pack :)
That website isn't working anymore. Can you please send those Alpha Maps Pack to me?
Big THNX....Love the Alpha's from Jonas. Realy helpful for my sculpting/modeling
Brilliant video, thank you so much for this series!
Thank you very much for making this video! I was looking for exactly this kind of video for some time now.
glad to hear it
Can't thank you enough for this, alphas are such powerful tools
Indeed
Good video thank you ! Cant wait for the second one !!
Thanks :)
Very helpful! Thank you!
Awesom Thanks for these tips and sites
😃
cant wait for the 2nd video!!!
should be releasing it on Wednesday all going well :)
Should be a good series. I'm looking forward to the second & mainly third video as I like to make my own brushes for things should I need them.
A suggestion for a possible 4th vid or appended to the last may be an application example. Lots of people ask about which brushes I use when drawing and are puzzled when I say I mainly use default brushes for most things (as if the magic lies in the special brush packs people make?) so once I figure out where & how best to use the defaults in Blender, it would be nice to see working examples of how best to impliment these texture brushes, to give us inspiration for future more advanced sculpts. (like the skin texture on the demo figure you did this week).
Thanks again Grant.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will do that too :)
Thanks for the lesson, and can tell you about the brush settings and what brush is best to use for alpha.
will do
i was looking for how to add texture brush thank you for video. and nice a lot site for texture.
Good to hear :)
Very helpful, thanks a lot.
thanks
Thanks a lot !
:)
very useful site thanks
:)
Exactly I was looking for. With so much places to get them how would be a good idea to organize them after?
I just put them all in a folder which i go to and choose from.
Thx. For the video.
(Figured it out, not sure what I was doing wrong)
Off topic. I'm having trouble switching between active cameras in 2.8. I have a camera that's location keys setup. I'd like to use a second camera to render the scene in a different location.
probably just a glitch :)
@@grabbitt Yea. My brain does glitch out a lot. XD
@@SlyNine haha I meant with the camera s in blender 2.8
Nice tutorial, I really love your sculpts, do you use a Graphics Tablet or A mouse?
Display tablets
thanks
:)
how we know which alphas textures we need to use according to the reference for the sculpt
I can't figure out where Pixologic are hiding their alpha library now if it's still publically available. -- Nevermind I found your link >.> Asile might be dead tho.
The forum link is dead but I typed out the mediafire links from the video and they still work:
www.mediafire.com/file/5w5wjyl02dfouc9/NGM_MECH_ALPHAS.rar/file
For Zbrush people: www.mediafire.com/file/a5zb8o3jto9xqnj/NGM_MECH_BRUSHES_SET.rar/file
What's your workstation specs? Or are you using a custom PC with high end gaming GPUs?
just a basic (ish) with a 980 gtx
@@grabbitt Ah cool. Because I was looking at building a workstation as I had to work on my laptop with a 960m. I tried to make a dog once but trimming and brushing the weight-painted hair was a nightmare. Say if you were to make something very fluffy, how'd you go about doing it?
@@lcmiracle is very difficult you can sculpt fluff or add hair. It's tricky.
We all know grant is the true alpha here 😘
Hm, so despite being called "Alphas" they don't have an alpha channel with transparency? Is that a typical difference between using brush textures and brush masks in Blender? I have a bunch of Photoshop brushes that use transparency instead of black and white and I've been meaning to learn what I can and can't use those for in Blender. I'm looking forward to those other few videos you mentioned about this subject.
yes they kind of operate like an alpha by using the black as such. So the black does nothing just like an alpha. I think that's the thinking but yes no alpha channel :)
For the use of PS-brushes just open a new square document (I use 1024 x 1024 or 512 x 512 pixels). You can use a black background if you remember that step while making the new file. I tend to forget that and just throw in a black layer and lock it. Then for every brush I do a new transparent layer. Pick the brush you want to use and white paint with 100% opacity and flow. Just click once, don't move the cursor while clicking. Save the file as png or jpeg, then hide the layer and make another for the next brush and repeat the steps for every brush you want for blender.
Some PS brushes work well, others don't because they have not enough grey values and give you only harsh edges. If that happens I convert the brushlayer to a smart object and try a soft gaussian blur as smart filter, then save again and try in blender if that helped. Or use Materialize as Grant is showing in the other video :-) I haven't tried that, but it looks really easy and useful.
But often I don't want the blur everywhere, the smart filter gives me the option to paint away the filter where I don't want it. The smart filter has a mask that is filled with white and therefor shows the filter everywhere. clicking the mask icon and painting with black hides the filter where I paint.
@@ChristinaMcKay yes that's a good point :)
Can you please make some tutorial on fluid and smoke simulation or if you had already made then link pls 😅
It's not something i have done much on before i'm afraid. I may get around to it at some point though :)
@@grabbitt I think you should try these whenever you get free time bcz it's just awesome and why I want it's tutorial from you is bcz you cover all the basic stuff which other instructors forget to tell . And literally your tutorials are just awesome ....
Keep up good work😇
@@pulkit.guglani thanks I'll do my best
What would be a real use case for this?
buttons, details, zips, rivets, screws... I'll hopefully come up with another video showing this soon
@@grabbitt would be great, thanks!
Hello Grant, I'm 45% into your course on character creation in blender, you are my all time favorite teacher, i love the sound of your. voice, your patience and your wonderful sculpts. Are you married? xxx
Thanks. Yes I am married🙂
@@grabbitt me too, but it's fun to dream.
Please put the link for the sci fi back you used here
It's in the description
Which one sorry I didn't know
If the last link is forbidden in ur case,use this instead, www.mediafire.com/file/a5zb8o3jto9xqnj/NGM_MECH_BRUSHES_SET.rar/file
Quixel Megascans.
Thanks
im sculpting a dragon and i wanna knoe..... why the hell cant i download the alpha mattes from pixologic!!!!!
You just need the texture
@@grabbitt I'm having the same issue, when i click the little download button bottom the brush it won't start the download, how can i solve this?
@@loomissimool8070 I cant download them either
@@santicheeks1106 if you are using chrome, try Mozilla, it worked for me
@@grabbitt Yep, same here. Also on the Dragon head tutorial. Neither of 1sr 2 sites, textures or pixilogic have downloadable alphas.
You can view the texture, but no download link.
When I Save Image As.... of the texture, like the dragon gill like one, it will save as a jpg, and you CAN use that as a texture brush, but the resolution is really shitty, so no good. Unless I'm missing something..... Please help