The Bi-Weekly Substance Challenge (Challenge 3 & 4)

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 

Previous Challenges

• Challenge 1 & 2 (Brick & Marble)

Challenge 3 - Rock on! (Rock) || Time Limit 2nd Mar - 16th Mar.
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Challenge 4 - Sewer Drain || Time Limit 17th Mar - 31st Mar.
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3DKyle

Well done on the sewer drains everyone!

New challenge is live. It's time to raise the roof! (Roof shingles) http://polycount.com/discussion/185421/the-bi-weekly-substance-challenge-challenge-5/p1

K

Amazing work guys . Here is my version:

More renders here.

Bruno Afonseca

I'm very late! Will try to catch up. Here's my manhole:

Daniel_Swing

First draft of one of my new rock materials:

Daniel_Swing

Here we go! I'm feeling finished with this one. EDIT: I've uploaded screen-shots of the graph as a mini-tutorial on my Artstation!

I've also started on a new Sewer Drain:

Reference:

(The buildings are going to be... fun...)
I'll be doing at least one more rock material and finish this sewer drain before I move on to the Roof Shingles and Sea Foam again!

3DKyle

On fire @Daniel_Swing Keep up the good work. Look forward to seeing the finished sewer drain. 

Daniel_Swing

Started on the buildings today!

Daniel_Swing

I think I'm done! Check out my Artstation for some break-down shots of the graph!

And this is my spaghetti!

TangDao

I hope nobody minds me posting in these threads now that the deadline is over?Here's my rock material rendered in UE4.Any comments or critiques are welcome

Daniel_Swing

@TangDao It's great seeing someone going through them all! I'm finishing up an assignments right now but after that, I'll join back in with you!
Feedback: I feel like your rock is a bit too noisy and dark in color. I'd also like some edge high-lights!

TangDao

Thanks for the feedback @Daniel_Swing.Made some changes on the rocks toning down  the normals and brightening it up some.I think the edge highlights got obscured by the normals on the previous version.

TangDao

Moscow manhole cover.