Creating embroidery

RS7 · Nov 2018

Hi guys!

I'm currently playing around with the idea to create realistic looking emboridery. To my suprise, it turned out to be pretty difficult subject.

Anyone has some experience or ideas how to approact this task? Mind to bounce some ideas? I've tried substance designer, maya modeling methods, some fur techniques, zbrush displacement.. No remacable success thus far.

Burpee · Nov 2018

Good ol' poly modeling is the key !

RS7 · Nov 2018

It starts to look like i have to brute force it, indeed. But this gives really dense mesh..

How would you approach to this kind of modeling? Do you model the overall shape and then fill with textures or would you rather model every single thread as a separate object?

Neox · Nov 2018

https://www.deviantart.com/polyphobia3d/art/frenja-step-14-minitutorial-447451513 maybe this helps giving you an idea on how to approach it.

oraeles77 · Nov 2018

RS7 said:

Hi guys!

I'm currently playing around with the idea to create realistic looking emboridery. To my suprise, it turned out to be pretty difficult subject.
Anyone has some experience or ideas how to approact this task? Mind to bounce some ideas? I've tried substance designer, maya modeling methods, some fur techniques, zbrush displacement.. No remacable success thus far.

what sort of embroidery do you want replicate? military goldwork or something pastoral?

do you have any experience of working with embroidery /textiles in real life?

I'd suggest learning abit about couching, satin stich and french knots and there's no better place to learn about stuff like that than these books by the Royal School of Embroidery as it would help give clear information for reference to help you understand what you need to do...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldwork-RSN-Essential-Stitch-Guides/dp/1844487024/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/School-Needlework-Crewelwork-Essential-Stitch/dp/1844485501/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/School-Needlework-Blackwork-Essential-Stitch/dp/184448551X/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rsn-Embroidery-Techniques-Inspiration-Needlework/dp/1782211896/

i havent done any emboridery in cg, but I do embroidery in real life (for a job), I'd suggest you Substance designer. and first do this cloth tutorial....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHK-TqhXtmc

to make a background.

once you've done that you could overlay some shapes and you could experiment with masks giving them colour and height and a grain etc.

RyanB · Nov 2018

http://www.entagma.com/fakebroidery-needlework-in-houdini/

Creating embroidery

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