Realistic Prop Tutorial by Joe Seabuhr

Blockout
by Joe Seabuhr • Intermediate • 30m
On this first installment Joe focuses on idea generation and how he goes from an idea to a flushed out Ref Board and Blockout to aid him in the rest of the course.

High Poly
by Joe Seabuhr • Intermediate • 1h 17m
On this second installment Joe gives a brief overview of some Sub-D examples and why Sub-D is an important thing to have knowledge of. He then goes on to make the TV high poly from the blockout of the last installment.

Low Poly
by Joe Seabuhr • Intermediate • 56m
This Installment focuses on making the low poly from the high poly and the thought process Joe has with this stage of the prop workflow.

UV’s and Bakes
by Joe Seabuhr • Intermediate • 1h 0m
This Fourth Installment focuses on getting respectable UV’s and Bakes. Joe Starts with showing some UV examples varying in difficulty and then gradually moves on to packing the UV’s, Organising the UV packs, Organising Bake groups and finally Baking.

Texturing
by Joe Seabuhr • Intermediate • 1h 27m
This Fifth Installment focused on texturing. Joe Breaks down texturing into 4 main stages and tackles each one as it’s own separate beast in order to get a solid final product.

Presentation
by Joe Seabuhr • Intermediate • 42m
For the the final installment, Joe focuses on setting up a marmoset scene with pretty lights and textures to create the best renders possible for your prop and Artstation post.

Part 1 Blockout
01 01 Introduction
01 02 Prop Research and Idea Generation
01 03 TV Reference
01 04 Blockout

Part 2 High Poly
02 01 Introduction
02 02 Sub-D Examples
02 03 TV Sub-D Modelling
02 04 TV Cart Sub-D Modelling
02 05 VHS Stuff Sub-D Modelling
02 06 Full Model Final Showcase

Part 3 Low Poly
03 01 Introduction
03 02 Cassette Player Low Poly Modelling
03 03 TV Cart Low Poly Modelling
03 04 TV Low Poly Modelling
03 05 Low Poly Summary

Part 4 UV’s and Bakes
04 01 Introduction
04 02 UV techniques
04 03 Finishing up UV’s
04 04 UV packing
04 05 Pre-Bake organisation and export
04 06 Baking
04 07 Final showcase

Part 5 Texturing
05 01 Introduction and File Setup
05 02 Base Materials
05 03 Heavy Masking (Stage 2)
05 04 Creating wood alphas
05 05 Wood reference
05 06 Wood texturing
05 07 Alpha Creation
05 08 Unique Detailing (Stage 3 & 4)
05 09 Summary

Part 6 Presentation
06 01 Introduction and File Setup
06 02 Exporting maps and Importing into marmoset
06 03 Initial Lighting
06 04 Creating a backdrop – Initial Lighting
06 05 Second Scene set up – Initial Lighting
06 06 Showing the different Variants – Initial Lighting
06 07 Uploading to Artstation – Initial Lighting