The Bi-Weekly Substance Challenge (Challenge 1 & 2)

3DKyle

Hello everyone, welcome to the Bi-Weekly Substance Challenge. 
Like the previous challenge that was ran by Tejay, this is going to be running everyone 2 weeks to give people a little longer to work on the materials.

How it works

• Every 2 weeks a new reference will be shared to be recreated, you are also encouraged to find your own reference, as long as it still fits the topic for that bi-weekly substance, for example if we share a mud reference, you can gather you own mud reference. 

• You can be creative with the reference and make it look either realistic, stylized or hand-painted, it is up to you.

Guidelines

• Try and give constructive criticism, giving and receiving this should help each of us artist grow.

• This is a Substance Challenge, so stick with that software.

• You can post Wip's and finished materials here. 

• Don't share work you've done in the pass, if you done a material before, try it again don't try pass old work off as something you did for this. 

• Final material renders to be rendered in a real-time engine (Marmoset, UE4, Unity, Cryengine, Stingray, IRay is also accepted).

• This is a learning experience for all, don't be afraid to ask questions.

• Learn all that you can and do share what you also learn. 

• Please be respectful to each and everyone. 

Discord
We have a channel in the Allegorithmic Discord group where you can share WIP's and final images as well as discuss the challenge, Click here to go to it.
If you have any other questions in relations to any of the Allegorithmic's software, use the appropriate channels for those questions.

Resources

• Allegorithmic Youtube Playlists
• Substance Academy
• Rogelio Olguin Substance Designer Gnomon Tutorial
• Joshua Lynch Substance Designer Tutorials 

Challenge 1 - Bricking it! (Brick Wall) || Time Limit 30th Jan - 14th Feb.
Every portfolio needs one. Click the pictures for bigger resolutions.

  

Challenge 2 - A marble-ous texture (Marble) || Time Limit 15th Feb - 1st March.
Be free with this, make a single marble texture, make marble tiles, just loose your marbles and have fun! 
  

Next Challenge
http://polycount.com/discussion/184104/the-bi-weekly-substance-challenge-challenge-3/p1?new=1

For those finishing up the marble and brick, make sure to keep them in this thread. 

ninetitle

I had some trouble completing the challenge but I  tried to finish at least the rough green marble I had in my original tiles :




I hope non worked marble still counts, any feedback is welcome.

I will probably pick it up again and make the tiles when I will have a little free time ( working on my portfolio now).

Thanks to all, really inspired by this challenge, ( and a good refresher on Substance Designer too).

solkar

@ninetitle it looks a bit too noisy and that makes it feel more like granite. 

ninetitle

I know @solkar , but I tried to follow this reference:



it's still not perfect but I had no time to further tweak the substance.

Merlynn

@kimkir That`s a great start
@JoachimC Thanks for sharing!

kony

Hi polycounters
Here are my tests
very interesting exercice for work quickly.
I love take infinite time XD

Soph=)

Daniel_Swing

Revisiting the brick challenge a bit. After having spent almost 100 hours in Substance Designer with these challenges, I feel like I've improved a lot and I wanted to put it to the test.

Daniel_Swing

Now I'm sneaking in some color adjustments:

Daniel_Swing

I'm back yet again with some bricks! After having spent almost 300 hours in Substance Designer since I started here (and 200 more since my last attempt), I feel like I should re-visit all of the challenges! That's right, I'm going through all of them again!
This is merely one of the variants that can be created with my current graph, lots of exposed parameters! I'll be adding a herringbone pattern variant tomorrow!

Daniel_Swing

Here we go, two variants of my brick material. Check out my Artstation for 6 more!

The herringbone pattern proved to be a bit too much work for this particular material. I will probably save it for one of the later challenges.

On to marble!

Daniel_Swing

Back with my new marble! I'll be starting on a pattern tomorrow, hopefully to incorporate them all. Feel free to leave feed-back on these!

Daniel_Swing

Feedback? Else, I will consider these finished and move on to the rock challenge!

Daniel_Swing

So... surprise-surprise, I've done another brick material! It seems like I'll never stop... This time I've included a herringbone pattern toggle and MUCH MORE! Check out my Artstation for 15 variants and another micro-tutorial/breakdown!

TangDao

I wanted to try to improve my work by going through these older challenges.It's an inspiration seeing all the great work that's gone before. 

TangDao

I tried to create the illusion of depth and complexity with the marble challenge.

wirrexx

Week 1: Trying to learn Substance. 

TangDao

Looks good @wirrexx .One thing I noticed was repetition between some of your bricks,mostly on the protruding  ones.Nice to see someone else going through the challenge.

Artush

Hello there,
some beautiful stuff can be done with this SO so i'm on it

i'm trying to learn in substance and i found this, so here is my week 1:

some marble tiles

Bricks from reference

and here in UE4


Some really nice stuff here, my jaw was dropped