3 hours per week lectures / labs
(1:n) (1:20)2

1 hour lecture and a 2 hour lab per week

This module covers the skills required to produce texture assets for the games industry.
Students will explore: -
- 2D Bitmap manipulation software
- Custom brushes
- Filters
- Bump maps, Specular maps, Normal maps, Alpha Maps
- Paths
- Vector and Raster art
- Procedural and Bitmap Textures
- Foundation Skills such as Light and Shadow

Texturing solutions will be aimed at multiple platforms depending on the students interest


- Procedural and Bitmap Textures
- Foundation Skills such as Light and Shadow

Texturing solutions will be aimed at multiple platforms depending on the students interest

100% Coursework

70% Practical games asset (Learning Outcomes 1 and 2).
30% Log Book, documenting the progress of the practical work (Learning Outcome 3).

Luke Ahearn , 3D Game Textures 2006, Focal Press, ISBN:0240807685

Mathew Omernick 2004, Creating The Art Of The Game, New Riders Publishing ISBN: 0735714096

David Franson 2004, The Dark Side of Game Texturing, Course Technology PTR, ISBN: 1592003508

Phaidon, 2004,The Art Book, Phaidon Press Ltd, ISBN:0714836257

3dsmax
Adobe Photoshop

Students must have used Adobe Photoshop / 3D Studio Max.