16 Substance Painter Tutorial Collection That Will Shock You

Are you looking for a Substance Painter Tutorial to Learn Substance Faster?

I share the tutorial collection that you follow one by one. No Matter if you are a beginner or Intermediate Texture Artist.

These tutorials will save you time.

Is Substance Painter Easy to Learn?

Yes, it’s very easy to learn, you just need to understand how Substance Painter works. Once you can create smart material, a Smart mask with Edgewear, dust, dirt etc, you learn it.

1. What is a Substance Painter

Substance Painter is a real-time PBR-based texturing software to creates realistic texturing for your 3D Models

The workflow is non-destructive and easy to use after learning. Before using the Substance Painter, make sure that your 3D Model should be unwrapped properly.

You can watch the Substance Painter Reel to know how powerful Substance Painter is and What kind of texture you can create with this awesome software:-

2. Getting Started

This is a free Substance Painter Tutorial series from the Substance Academy. In this course, you will learn all about substance painter texture.

In short, this is the best tutorial to learn Substance Painter for Beginners.

3. Substance Painter Tutorial For Beginners

You can also follow JL Mussi Beginner Guide to Learn Substance Painter for Beginners. This is a more beginner-friendly guide.

4. Understand Fundamentals of Substance Painter

This course is deeper, in this course, you will learn everything from 3D Model export to rendering in Substance Painter with IRAY.

But this is a premium course, here is a free chapter. You can access the full course here.

5. Bake Mesh Maps

Baking Mesh Map like Roughness, Normals, AO, Cavity etc essential before texturing in Substance Painter.

So you should learn the perfect baking before texturing any 3D Model

Adobe shared a detailed explanation about Mesh Map, how it works and how to create high-quality Mesh Map inside Substance Painter.

6. Normal Map Baking

When you bake the normal map, it gets a weird result, especially in the gaming models. To bake a clean normal map, you need to understand how baking parameters work in Adobe Substance Painter.

7. Texturing a Assets

If you are looking to texturing a Hard Surface asset then this is the best tutorial to follow. In this tutorial, you will learn a lot about Hard Surface Texturing.

After following this tutorial, you will get the skill to texture any weapon like a sword, gun, or any hard surface props.

8. Weapon Texturing for Games

If you create AAA Quality weapon 3D Model but you don’t know how to texture or your texture looks very bad.

Then this free tutorial will save you.

This is part of the full weapon modelling course which is available free on YouTube, you can watch the full course here.

If you sell 3D Models on CG Marketplace, high-quality texture increases the number of sales of your 3D Models.

9. 3D Character Texturing

One of my favourite 3D Character Artists Magdalena Dadela shares his techniques to texture a 3D Character in Substance Painter.

This course is also completely free and it’s part of the Substance Academy series, In this course, you will learn several things such as:-

10. Game Character Texturing

if you make a 3D Character for games and want to learn to texture a game character and want to learn to unwrap, bake the required mesh map and final render.

however, this is a premium course but it’s valuable for 3D Character Artist. You can access this course from here.

11. Face Skin Texturing

Face texturing is the most difficult part for beginner 3D Character artists because. You need to spend hours every day to create realistic skin texture.

Don’t worry if you follow good tutorials and practice, one day you can also create realistic-looking skin texturing like any other popular 3D Character Artist.

In this course, you learn all the things that you need for face texturing, You can access this course here.

12. Emissive Lighting

Sometimes you and I need to add lighting material for some 3D Modeling projects such as sci-fi assets, Interior etc.

Lighting can be created by using Emissive Material. With this Five-minute YouTube Tutorial, you can easily learn how Emissive material works.

13. Mastering Blending Nodes

Substance Painters use Blending Nodes like Adobe Photoshop, such as ADD, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide. But which one Blender Node do you need to apply according to your 3D Model?

You can follow this playlist if you don’t know anything about it.

14. Short Cut Key

To work faster in any Software, you can remember the shortcut or you can change the short key for easy remembering.

In this link, you will find all the most used Shortcut keys and methods to change the key.

15. Level and Histogram

Do you know what Lever and Histogram do in Substance Painter? Or you can just apply these settings like a robot, stop it now.

You can learn the proper way to use Level and Histogram from Substance Academy.

16. Trim Sheet

Trim Sheet is used by Environment artists if you don’t know what is Trim Sheet then this course is created by you from Flipped Normals.

In this course you learn all about Trim sheet, what is it and how to use it for environment texturing purposes.

You can access this course here.

Now It’s Your Turn

So I share some of the best substance painter tutorials to learn Substance Painter faster. I hope these tutorials will help you.

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