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Creating a Jurassic World Dinosaur Character in Maya: Part 8

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Soni Kumari
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What You'll Be Creating

1. Applying Materials on Body Mesh

Step 1

Start Maya and open the file that was saved in the last part of the tutorial.

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Start Maya

Step 2

Go to Geometry and set the SDiv label to 7 as shown in the following image.

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Go to Geometry

Step 3

Click on Dino mesh layer in the Subtool palette to apply the selected material on the mesh.

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Click on Dino mesh layer

Step 4

With the body mesh selected, apply Skin shade in the Standard Materials section as shown in the following image.

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Standard Materials

Step 5

Press M button for material channel. Go to Color menu in main menu bar and then click on the FillObject button to apply the material on the selected body mesh.

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FillObject button

2. Painting Body Mesh

Step 1

For the skin painting, first click on Rgb button and then select the light skin colour from the colour palette as shown in the following image. 

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Click on Rgb button

Step 2

With Rgb button pressed, go to Color menu in main menu bar and then click on the FillObject button to apply the material on the selected body mesh.

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Go to Color menu

Step 3

Select the white colour shade and apply it on the nails as shown in the following image.

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Select the white color shade

Step 4

With a bit darker skin colour shade selected, apply spray strokes on the skin as shown in the following image.

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Apply spray strokes

Step 5

Following the same procedure, keep painting the upper body skin as shown in the following image.

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Upper body painting

Step 6

In this way, the basic body colour has been applied on the dinosaur mesh.

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Basic body color

Step 7

To add details to the mouth texture, go to Brush menu in main menu bar followed by Auto Masking option and then turn on Cavity Mask button.

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Cavity Mask button

Step 8

Expand the Cavity Mask curve settings and set the curve as shown in the following image.

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Cavity Mask curve settings

Step 9

Click on Rgb button and then select the darker skin colour as shown in the following image.

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Click on Rgb button

Step 10

Paint the outer mouth surface and the rest of the body as shown in the following image.

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Paint the outer mouth surface 

Step 11

Following the same way, paint the body mesh with the controlled brush strokes as shown in the following image.

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Controlled brush strokes

3.  Applying Materials on Gums, Teeth and Eye Balls

Step 1

Select the Gum mesh under Subtool panel as shown in the following image.

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Select the Gum mesh under Subtool panel

Step 2

With the ToyPlastic material selected, apply it on the gum mesh.

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ToyPlastic material

Step 3

Press M button for material channel. Go to Color menu in main menu bar and then click on the FillObject button to apply the material on the selected gum mesh.

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FillObject button 

Step 4

Select the Teeth mesh under Subtool panel as shown in the following image.

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Subtool panel 

Step 5

With SoftPlastic material selected, press M button for Material Channel. Go to Color menu in main menu bar and then click on the FillObject button to apply the material on the selected teeth mesh.

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SoftPlastic material

Step 6

Following the same way, apply the ToyPlastic material with dark yellow colour on the eye balls as shown in the following image.

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Step 7

In this way, all basic materials and colours have been applied to the dinosaur body mesh.

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Basic body color

Conclusion

In the next part of the tutorial, I'll show you how to paint gums, teeth, mouth, claws and nails of the dinosaur.

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