Mixer - Experimenting with Materials

Fansub · Aug 2018

hey y'all !

I've been doing some tests with the Quixel Mixer and thought about sharing them here

For a little bit of context, Quixel Mixer is a newly released software which allows you to create tilleable surfaces, but the main different with say substance designer is that this one heavily relies on photogrammetry. As a huge fan of SD's limitless capabilities i was very looking forward to testing the Mixer, mainly because i don't work on it despite working at Quixel

So i'll be using this thread to create materials which break the Mixer's comfort zone, namely realistic/natural materials. I'll be going through some food materials, gore, metals,, some nature stuff, plastics, sci-fi, etc... just to keep exploring, understand the software a bit better and send some feedback to the dev team.

Waffles material

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/012/382/118/large/adnan-chaumette-screenshot001.jpg?1534503494

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmslJejiiU

Guts material

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/012/390/252/original/adnan-chaumette-giphy-1-1.gif?1534538560

And a tutorial on how it's made :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2BIRU10c8c

swampy soil material

Image: https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/012/399/923/large/adnan-chaumette-screenshot013.jpg?1534605618

Fansub · Aug 2018

Trying out some watermelons because why not

Image: https://media.giphy.com/media/2yqXk5Zs4yRqVMclju/giphy.gif

Here's the albedo, and you can see the layer stack isn't too crazy

took me around 2 hours to figure this one out, can probably do it in 6-12 minutes now.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/34/47endfckm16w.jpg

TheGabmeister · Aug 2018

Cool. I've been watching the recent Quixel Mixer videos. Really excited on what this tool can offer in the near future.

I might have missed it, but I was wondering if there's a way for users to share there work to the community so that others can learn from their work.

artofjavi · Aug 2018

This is really exciting. I love what you did here!

Fansub · Aug 2018

Thanks guys !

Yeah it's definitely very interesting to experiment with. I'll get back to mixing more stuff in the weekend, got a few ideas that will need some thinking in order to give them justice.