Applying a Label to a Wine Bottle 2: Stenciling

In the previous tutorial, we established the size of the label and mapped it correctly around our wine bottle. Now we will stencil the texture to define the shape of the label.

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The great difference this time will be creating and applying a stencil map.

The stencil map has the same size as our first stencil map: 1260 x 600 pixels, only this time we shall create the cutout of the label.

In this case, the label has the shape shown in the stencil map below.

The new stencil map. Click for a full-size version

If we replace the white stencil map and use this one, we’ll have the label shape cut.

A good idea is use the stencil map also as the bump map to simulate the thickness of the paper of the label.

What we are left with is the image below.

A detail view of the bottle and label shows the bump map at work simulating the thickness of the paper.

That is the stenciling part.

The next tutorial will deal with applying the color map and simulating metal foil in the label.
These are the 4 tutorials:

Applying a Label to a Wine Bottle