In this tutorial, I show how to paint over 3D renders.

Painting over 3D renders is something I do almost on a daily basis as a film concept artist.

3D helps a lot to establish perspective, lighting, textures and many other important details in your artwork, but there is always a moment when it feels like you need to put some paint work on top of it to push it further.

When is that moment exactly?

How to start painting over your renders?

What brushes to use?

How to improve storytelling by painting over?

It took me a few solid years to find well-balanced answers for those questions, which I`m sharing in this tutorial.

Includes:

2.6 hours of narrated videos

1 hour of time-lapsed process videos

PSD files

JPG files

Topics covered:

Introduction

3D base and setting up render passes

Sketching out ideas

Using render passes and references

Colour grading

Simplify or refine painting principle

Exaggerating to make it feel more alive

Conclusion

Demo 1 (time-lapsed)

Demo 2 (time-lapsed)