The Bi-Weekly Substance Challenge (2018 Challenges)

3DKyle · Jan 2018

Hello everyone, welcome to the Bi-Weekly Substance Challenge 2018.

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 past, 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

Previous Challenges

Challenge 16 - Rail Road || 4th Jan - 18th Jan
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Challenge 17 - Substance Food || 20th of Jan - 3rd Feb
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Here are some tasty substances from other artists to give you that appetite of inspiration.

Alice Gionchetta - Pizza
Stephen Honegger - Fried Egg
Curt Smith - Waffles
Jeff Kleinzweig - Pizza
Thomas Meurisse - Grill and Meat

Challenge 18 - Circuit board || 12th Feb - 26th Feb
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Challenge 19 - Concrete Damaged Floor || 1st March - 15th March
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Challenge 20 - Cassette Tape || 17th March - 31st March
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Challenge 21 - Old Shield || 5th April - 19th April.
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Challenge 22 - Grass || 1st May - 15th May.
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Challenge 23 - Metal Zinc Plates || 27th May - 10th June
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Riahh · Apr 2018

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hello, I started the challenge yesterday, I chose the 3rd reference. c&c are welcome !

LorasTyrell · Apr 2018

Hey everyone! True to myself I totally ignored the references, so here's an elven shield from Lord of the Rings

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/4y/gd2nqtv4vtuk.jpg

A.Hauber · Apr 2018

First time participating in the substance challenge. Wanted to join in for a long time. Thank you for putting those up!

Trying to get the hight informations right. But couldn´t resist to lay down some details here and there. I´m not very happy with the wood planks. They will be the next thing to fix tomorrow.

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3DKyle · Apr 2018

@A.Hauber I'm liking this, the feel is really nice, I think it's just the wood you need to work on it has really dark areas which feels super odd. Keep at it

A.Hauber · Apr 2018

Thank you 3DKyle

Today I reworked the wood and started out with some details.

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A.Hauber · Apr 2018

So here is my final result for this challenge

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NickWilliams · Apr 2018

@A.Hauber Nice work!

capone · Apr 2018

Couldn't help myself and had a go at a Zelda shield. Just having trouble picking a colour scheme and going with it so will leave it for a bit. Any preferences here? Once I decide I'll start polishing/cleaning this up and get some final renders.

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NickWilliams · Apr 2018

@capone Nice! I dig D. Maybe steal the golden Triforce from B tho.

capone · Apr 2018

Wrapped it up. Here is my entry;

More shots at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/008A5

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/010/362/028/large/adam-capone-screenshot008.jpg?1524020571

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shaya · Apr 2018

Kinda late to the challenge, here is what I have so far. Gonna add a few more height details before I start the rest of the texture. Hope to finish it by tomorrow.

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shaya · Apr 2018

Gonna call it for this challenge. I feel like the materials still feel pretty off, so any comments/critiques would be awesome.

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oxygencube · Apr 2018

Sooo I thought the challenge was mainly using either Painter / Designer. Didn’t realize it was Designer only... oh well.. I made this:

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shaya · Apr 2018

Ok I lied, here's one more pass.

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Freezy Demon · Apr 2018

Decided to hop on the challenge as well, here's what I came up with!

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https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NWN1z

3DKyle · May 2018

New challenge has started!

oxygencube · May 2018

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Calling mine done.. Stylized grass w/ flowers..

makinmagic3 · May 2018

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Need to do some more tweaks to the grass.
Leaves can be adjusted (how many there are...etc), the colour for the leaves are gradient mapped then within a tile generator the luminance and saturation are adjusted to get the various brown colours.

NickWilliams · May 2018

Missed the last challenge, but here's what I got for this one. Grass is tricky yo. Learned a ton through experimentation on this one!
ArtStation Link

capone · May 2018

'Finished' but please let me know if you have any feedback, always useful to me even if only to take into consideration next time.

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NickWilliams · May 2018

@capone
Nice work! I think you could get more depth if you expanded the height range of your grass levels and boosted the AO.

capone · May 2018

Here I've boosted the AO by 25% and then set 3 types of height. Any preference?

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NickWilliams · May 2018

@capone
I prefer 30% For the style of grass you've chosen, it looks like enough to get a lil bit of a shadow "beneath" the blades. That said, I often find im a bit heavy handed on the height. I'd try to get another opinion on this tho.

capone · May 2018

Finished. Updated to ArtStation with more shots;

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Yk0QP

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/010/808/598/large/adam-capone-screenshot004.jpg?1526341280

JordynLukomski · May 2018

This is my first Polycount Challenge and I had been wanting to do some sort of grass for a while. It was so much fun and I learned a lot about the FX Map, exposing parameters, and reusing variables.
Grass Generator Video:
http://https//vimeo.com/269995682
More Material Shots and Information:
https://www.artstation.com/jlukomski

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Finnn · May 2018

Really like your stylized material @capone

3DKyle · May 2018

Updated the challenge!

8i99iE · Jun 2018

Hello everyone,
I haven't posted anything on this challenge since I'm busy with my studies but I thought I'd give this one a crack since in holidays.
This was a just a quick design. with barely anything to it. I hope to do a more in-depth version over the coming days.

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HRDesign · Jun 2018

Viking Shield - Substance Designer

100% Substance Designer (Only substance designer was used during the creation) / Render in Marmoset.
More and Breakdown here

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/011/386/154/large/alexey-hrdesign-sphere-render1.jpg?1529336574

charliethechair · Jul 2018

Hey ya'll! Been reading through these threads and think it'd be really cool to get some of these back on track since it's been relatively inactive recently! I'd love to participate~

3DKyle · Jul 2018

I have put these on pause because I'm busy and not many people were joining in. If more people show they want it to start again I'll update it. For now I would recommend trying the old ones.

LorasTyrell · Jul 2018

I'm really sorry Kyle

( I've got a job and a stable schedule now so I promise I'll keep up with any new ones

The Bi-Weekly Substance Challenge (2018 Challenges)

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