Creature assets sit at the intersection of organic and hard-surface texturing, requiring a thoughtful balance of artistry, technical control, and clean, scalable workflows. This course is designed for artists looking to strengthen their approach to production-ready creature texturing, from early reference analysis and planning through to structured exports and handoff. If you want to build confidence working on humanoid creatures in Mari, understand how materials work together in lookdev, and make texturing decisions that hold up in a studio pipeline, this course provides a practical, real-world foundation.
In this course, you’ll follow the complete texturing process for a humanoid creature, working primarily in Mari, with support from Substance Painter for utility maps and base materials. The course covers reference analysis, material breakdowns, and project setup, then moves into detailed workflows for skin, hair, horns, claws, eyes, and mouth. You will create diffuse, specular, roughness, normal, and subsurface scattering maps. You’ll also texture props such as leather, fur, metal, and rock, learning to integrate organic and hard-surface materials into a cohesive asset. Along the way, you’ll explore Mari’s node graph, masking strategies, efficient exports, and presentation techniques to ensure your textures are ready for real-world lookdev and handoff.
Nastasia Bois is a senior texture artist based in London with over 12 years of experience across animation, advertising, and high-end visual effects. Nastasia has worked on a wide range of assets from props and environments to detailed creature work for studios including TeamTO, Milk VFX, and ILM. Specialising in creature texturing, Nastasia brings a strong balance of artistic storytelling and technical workflow knowledge, sharing practical insights shaped by real production experience throughout this course.
