Realistic Asset Creation with Adobe Substance 3D
Create materials, textures, filters, and 3D models using Substance 3D Painter, Designer, and Stager
Zeeshan Jawed Shah
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Realistic Asset Creation with Adobe Substance 3D
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Contributors
About the author
Zeeshan Jawed Shah is a teacher of multimedia, filmmaking, and arts. He is also a creative director, photographer, painter, sculptor, graphic designer, 3D modeler, animator, filmmaker, web designer, and visual effects artist. He is currently working as a lecturer in the graphic design department at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia. Zeeshan has worked on many projects.
Zeeshan has taught fine arts, web media, filmmaking, 3D modeling and animation, and visual effects courses at the University College of Bahrain, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) Bahrain, and the University of Bahrain. He holds more than fifteen years of extensive teaching experience, and his problem-based and project-based learning pedagogy has made him a popular faculty member in the Middle East. He is also considered the pioneer of student film projects in Bahrain as the first one to produce commercial feature-length films as student projects there.
Zeeshan was born in Saudi Arabia and went to Bahrain in 2006 to work as a lecturer at NYIT Bahrain. He mainly taught web design, 3D modeling and animation, computer graphics, motion design, and 2D animation courses in the beginning and then he included art history, drawing, and digital photography to his teaching list. Gradually, he started to work on film projects with NYIT students, which were based on his project-based learning teaching style in Bahrain.
Besides filmmaking, Zeeshan is also highly involved in interactive media and has organized various workshops related to Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. He has been a notable member of Bahrain’s gaming society where he participated in many game design events such as Gulf Game Jams.
About the reviewers
Chunck Trafagander has been working in video games since 2018, currently working as an Environment Artist in AAA. In his spare time, he runs the Get Learnt w/ Chunck YouTube channel where he creates tutorials centered around game art. He has also created several popular courses for the Flipped Normals marketplace, contributed multiple Substance Designer tutorials on the official Adobe Substance YouTube channel and works frequently with the CG Cookie team to deliver high-quality training resources for their YouTube and website.
Käy Vriend is an award-winning passionate material artist and all-round Substance expert, consultant, coach and mentor who is well-known in the game art community and one of the top Substance Artists in the world.
He loves finding and creating synergies, advise and help building studios and contribute to the games, film and design industry, indie and AAA studios alike.
Martin Schmitter is a talented CG generalist and content creator based in Switzerland. In his spare time, he is also a passionate nature photographer, hiker and loves to play video and boardgames. Blender 3D and other open-source software marked the starting point before he dived deep into the Adobe Substance 3D pipeline. While he began to learn 3D Designer, he created the substance beginner quicktip blog on artstation and social media to share his knowledge to the public. Then he participated on various challenges such as Mayterials, Nodevember and Blender 52 contest.
Now he works self-employed for companies and individuals, creates multiple Substance 3D tutorial series, he is a part of a game project and further releases materials and tools.