A long time ago in 2009, I made many different playermodels for a game called Garry's Mod. I made this tutorial a long time ago, but I decided to make a copy of it here before it eventually gets purged from it's original post.

Many of the things listed below may be outdated, the steps for preparing the model are mostly the same.
Here are the steps you should follow to get started.

I decided to work on an update to the dalek because the design is simple enough, but it has many different interesting textures and substances that go into it. That is why I chose to update the materials on this older project, the result was quite nice.

This project made for a great crash course in Substance Designer, and Substance Painter. It also helped me see the importance of masking, and how it can greatly increase the speed of my workflow.