Procedural Material Contest

Jerc · Oct 2015

Hi Everyone, witnessing the surge of artists on Polycount and Artstation producing crazy procedural materials with Substance Designer, we thought we would start an official contest to foster all this creativity.

So yeah, we just launched a procedural material contest!

There are some pricey Quadro cards and plenty of Substance licenses up to grab for the winners.

You can find more details over here

Fansub · Oct 2015

The goal is to produce a scene using procedural materials,or just produce some procedural materials without a scene ?

Jerc · Oct 2015

Just the materials.

Ged · Oct 2015

Im not sure what the theme is, the categories are very very broad...is that all the direction weve got? I just prefer it when a competition gives really clear goals.

Muzzoid · Oct 2015

I think it's a fill our library with free shit for our users for the chance to win a gfx card sort of deal...

RobeOmega · Oct 2015

I will be entering this in some form. Although I do not expect to do well enough to win anything.

Jerc · Oct 2015

The themes are very broad because we see people creating all sorts of materials procedurally and that's where SD is interesting, it allows you to create anything.

Restricting the theme too much on a material only contest like this wouldn't make much sense because there is very little value for artists and for the jury to compete for the best cracked ground material or the best gun metal, having a broad theme will allow the competition to be much more interesting

It's a challenge that's here to help people learn procedural material creation during the process and from each other while having a chance to win awesome prizes. Tons of artists are already uploading free materials on Substance Share, it's not really the point.

Ged · Oct 2015

Yeah its cool that theres a competition and its good for the software and the community

Im just not sure how you create a sense of competition with each other if you are all making completely different things. Hey I might have a go anyway I just dont know where to start with so many possibilities :P

Aabel · Oct 2015

This is exciting. It's awesome you guys do contests so frequently, especially with the aim of enriching the community. I hope I can find time to participate!

arvinmoses · Oct 2015

Categories are enough of direction enough imo. I think it should be pretty easy to come up with some creative back story for each of the textures based on the category and pretty fun.

Looking to finish up a texture set and will probably be starting this soon.

Thanks for getting this stuff up and going Jeremie and the rest of the team!

Kleinzfigure · Oct 2015

Count me in!

patricio_rosh · Nov 2015

I hope Allegorithmic will have another contest like this next year, I did not join the contest because I haven't seen this Contest right away and it's late for me to join. I am hoping next year.

Jerc · Nov 2015

The winners have been announced, congratulations to all who participated!
Here is a recap and some gorgeous eye-candy!
All the Substance Designer graphs are available for everyone to dissect on Substance Share!

Global Winners:

1st: Manhole Cover on Cobblestones by eedobaba7726