Gibson Custom 1960 'Black Beauty' Electric Guitar (High Poly)
1960 Gibson Custom Black Beauty electric guitar high poly model created in Modo using blueprints available online, all original work including textures created from scratch using Substance Designer, alphas created from scratch, Bigsby sculpted in Zbrush, textures applied across 9 UDIMs and exported from Substance Painter. Rendered using Marmoset Toolbag 5. Used MS Word to keep a list of the extensive textures, troubleshooting and edits done along the way.
Reference photo of the source
Reference photo of the source
Reference photo of the source
Reference photo of the source
Reference photo of the source
Reference photo of the source
Tuning pegs blueprint
Pick guard blueprint
Les Paul Custom 1960 blueprint
Zbrush used to sculpt the Bigsby logo for the Bigsby unit
Alpha used to sculpt Bigsby insert
Bigsby blueprint
Les Paul custom truss rod cover reference
Alpha created to stamp the letters on in SP
Alpha created for the volume and tone knobs numbers
Worn gold plating texture created for hardware
Original texture created for ebony fretboard
Original Mother of Pearl texture created for inlays and Gibson logo
Screenshot of Substance Painter right before exporting textures