Doctor Cranky's "Upholstery 101"

[Dr. Cranky]

Enjoy and please let me know what you think:

[dougp]

Great tutorial, thanks Dr.

[Ghost1]

Nice work Doc.

[MikeMc]

I love this technique...you told me how to do it and you were correct!!

And it works just like in the video!!! ;)

Headliners and visors too!! :P

[Harry P.]

I think Cranky is a modeling genius!

[spad007]

Thanks Dr.. For one who has grabbed textures off the net for years and even bought some..Yes you can buy textures on line.(some real good and some not so)

The seamless or continuous textures are the best as one won't see the seams or blocks of repeated patterns .

i used them for my CGI art.. yes seats in CGI models need textured upholstery too.

your tutorial woke me up i had not thought of printing one out and sticking it on a model.

it answered my question on how i might make a head liner look real with seams and all.

i can drop a texture in to paint shop and add stitching and what ever i like stains or weathering.

one might ad piping or welt to seat covers just by painting it on the texture (in photo shop or what ever graphic

editor one has and no hog ring pliers needed.)

or one might scan in a piece of cloth (if you have a flatbed scanner) then edit it to fit.

Many possibility's to think of . any way i will give it a try see what happens?

a fixer in olden times was Hair Net hair spray but probably out lawed by EPA. FDA. or some three letter group.

[Dr. Cranky]

Thanks, everyone. Yes, forgot to mention in the video that it's also perfect for doing headliners, trunks, you name it . . .

And Harry, I am not a modeling genius, I am just a Lab-RAT-Ory technician! :lol:

[Dr. Cranky]

Here are some simple results of two projects I am currently working on and I'm not too far off from finishing . . .