Bark texturing

lizcam

lizcam

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Does anyone have any scource for a texturing tool for bark on trees? I'm making a tree out of the stem of a pumpkin. I'll be skinning it in femo or something once it's all sculpted so I can texture it properly but I'd rather do that with a tool if I can instead of just doing it bit by bit by hand.

If no tools are out there does anyone have any suggestions how I can make one?
 
MAXXxxx

MAXXxxx

Well-known member
According to a good guidebook I have: used stiff toothbrush seems to be working good.

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text is (about):
"I use a woodfiller paste for this.
We apply the stuff with a stick and an old brush. It begins to set fast, so as soon as part is applied it's smoothed in and textured with an old toothbrush. Then I wait until the paste isn't sticky anymore.
Then I create the rest of the textrure with a screwdriver and a blade." (either x-acto or razor, I'm not sure)


apparently there is an english version of his books too. I found the one with the vegetation here: http://www.zinnfigur.com/product_in...id=l0870ai6p1s2mh598ruvn86fk6&sort=1d&ID=1428
I really recommend them as there is a LOT of info in there.

For example the themes in the "Let's build a diorama 2: nature":
- surface
- earthwork : desert, mud, footprints,
- rocks
- vegetation
- grass
- trees: trunk, leaves, example - maple, example - pine, example - palm
- using real plants
- dried plants
- conserved with pva
- conserved with glicerin
- examples: sunflower, reed, moss
- Effects
- snow
- melted snow
- icicle
- frozen puddle

Also apparently he has 5 books so far (I have 3): diorama1 - urban, diorama2 - nature, diorama3 ??? (edit: ohh I noticed it will be released this october), diorama -stone, diorama-accessories
 
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Rashid Mojeska

New member
Nice info, MAXXxxx. Love the idea of woodfiller.

Bark comes in a lot of different textures. One of those photos looks like it'd make really convincing Mesquite, but a Birch tree's bark peels like someone had taken a cheese grater and shaved it only part of the way. Some barks look like loosely wrapped paper machete that was shrunk rapidly with a hair dryer. (Like raisin skin)

What kind of tree are you going for?
 
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