Designing my own Tartan

So I couldn't find the right texture for Eve's tartan pyjamas. I had a long look on google images, and various texturing sites. I went through my personal texture bank of $%£$£% WAY too many textures, and still couldn't find anything that I thought would fit.

Starting to think I had to make my own in photoshop, I tried one last time to find something drastic. Google> "design own tartan". I found this site > http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartandesign/


Great way of generating multiple tartan patterns, and it was free! So I made about 4 and compared each within Zbrush, using the new spotlight feature.

This was a wonderful way of making sure the pattern was consistent and the lines conformed. It was hard though, making small rotational adjustments to spotlight and tracing the lines before committing to painting.

Something I'm going to look into next is 'Bodypaint'. It'l be easier to create dynamic textures with hard surface models, without having to subdivide them in Zbrush.