Old Book

This task was the first real taste of creating a texture by manipulating actual photographs. The task was to model and the texture an old book. The model had to be under 300 tris, the idea being that the book would be most likely to appear in a mobile game. The design of both the book and the texture were left to the imagination of each individual. For my book, I chose to go for a worn black leather book with a rusty golden binding, gilded page edges and embossed golden text. Overall I am extremely pleased with how the book texture turned out. I feel it looks very good, especially since it was my first proper attempt at creating a texture from photographic reference. I am most pleased with the wear around the very edge of the book.

Here is the diffuse texture for the book.

Here are a few shots of the book in Maya.