Cookie material. Do you wanna eat it?

Enviromist

Hey guys! I made this cookie material in substance designer for breakfast. Any ideas and critique?

Brian "Panda" Choi

Looks cartoony, given the black cavities in the texture.  

If that wasn't the intention, I'd recommend removing the cavity contrast.

But as a cartoony cookie, it looks good!

ryebot

Something about it looks more rocky that cookie to me. I think I agree with brian, tone down or soften the cracks a bit?

Nice specular touch on those M&Ms. This did succeed in making me hungry.

Enviromist

Thank you for your feedback guys!

You're totally right it looks too cartoony for now and it actually wasn't my intent.

So I did some fixes. I decreased AO in cavities as you said, added more roughness variations, and changed background.

And yes, it works. I think now it looks more realistic. 

Raztt

Cookie looks great but the candies look a bit flat.

Maxilator

This is pretty nit picky, but the straight cracks along the mnm's seem to be repeated quite a bit.

Enviromist

Yep. I feel lack of shape in candies too. My guess is it's more about this particular render than material itself. Tried to place some additional lights. It seems more light spots = more shape.

What do you think?

Tomiajayi

I do not.. it looks like brains. sorry

Enviromist

Its ok:) Really? Even original render? 

ActionDawg

@Tomiajayi it would be better to give real feedback.

I think you would benefit and get better crit by putting this on a real cookie mesh rather than present on a sphere, and share your references.

Enviromist

thank you for your tips.

I put material on simple sphere purposely. Idea behind this was to present material itself without connections to any familiar shapes. Maybe this idea wasn't so good as I thought? 

Anyway next time I'll try with mesh and references.

samwoodart

I feel like the actual cookie has a bit too much gloss. Doesn't really have that "hard baked" look. Cool work man!

gfelton

Definitely agree with samwood, though I think the dough should have minimal gloss. I do love those individual cracks on the candy bits, those feel real nice. Maybe a little variety with the cracks on each piece of candy would also help, since the candies contrast so much with the dough, the lack of variety is hard not to notice. Great work so far though!