Texturing / Look Development

Astronaut Suit

I textured the astronaut character in Substance 3D Painter and contributed to the suit modeling, with a focus on fabric, painted surfaces and wear.

Project Software

Substance 3D Painter & Substance 3D Designer: Textures and material maps
Maya & Arnold: Studio rendering
Unreal Engine 5 (Lumen): Real-time film lighting and rendering
Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator: Logos and vector graphics
Blender & Marmoset Toolbag: Also used in the project

Look Development

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Surface Details

Astronaut helmet close-ups from the back and front — Helmet surfaces and painted wear.

Astronaut torso, fabric, straps and equipment close-ups — Fabric, straps and torso equipment.

Astronaut lower suit and boots from the back and front — Lower suit and boots.

Suit Components

Texture Breakdown

Full character texturing in Substance 3D Painter using a UDIM workflow, with 4K, 8-bit textures and a PBR Metallic/Roughness setup. The UV layout is distributed across multiple tiles to retain surface detail for the animated character.

UV workflow: UDIM
Textures: 4K, 8-bit
Shading: PBR Metallic/Roughness
Mesh: 56,555 faces

Astronaut suit beside six material sets — Six material sets.

Studio Views

Film Context — The Martian

The suit appears in The Martian, a school film made by a team of four over one month. My contributions included environment and asset modeling, texturing, material-map generation, and lighting in Unreal Engine 5, with rendering using Lumen.

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Film team

Eliott Erta · Dorian Gendre · Clément Charbonnier · Clément Chevallier

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