Been putting this one off for months – years maybe! I’ve been interested in learning the ropes of Adobe’s Substance Painter for texturing 3D models, but I couldn’t decide what to start with. In keeping with the theme of my recent character model, I decided to build a droid that might accompany her on some faraway interstellar desert, so I could perhaps combine them in in future designs. I kicked off this exercise by employing ChatGPT to generate some rough sketches to use as a basis for the features of the droid, like body shape, armor, etc., and then built my model in Blender to suit the environment I ultimately plan to comopse it into. Next up is the fun part – Substance, here I come…