Blender for Animation and Film-Based Production

Chapter 8

UV Unwrap and External Textures

THE UNWRAPPING TECHNIQUE is commonly used in each film production. But we won't discuss it like a big tutorial. We'll explain in short, what unwrapping is and why studios use this technique, say for complete character textures.

In fact, it's a really important technique for mapping textures because what it does is to build a plain shape of our object's topology so that it might be modified and repainted to adapt the new texture to the same object's topology. It's easy if you think of it like origami (Figure 8.1).

Figure 8.1

Some textures used in Big Buck Bunny open movie for the chinchilla character. ...