in tuft we trust

(pic not by me)

it's amazing how i get paid for this, honestly

(the downside is, I have to replicate it in texture)

As someone who's into brutalism, it's quite nice to get to study that material! look at how smooth this stuff is. I wanna make concrete art sometime!

Anyway unlike most 3d game texture artists, I only get a diffuse layer to work with. No fancy normals, no reflections, flat geometry only, and it's all gotta be in the diffuse. And man, that's hard sometimes. On the contrary, I do get HUGE resolutions in return.

the bottom of this gas station sign caught me a little off guard, as it looks like a low resolution texture was applied to the underside.

edit: i just realized it also looks mirrored down the middle which definitely isn't helping

at first l thought it actually was a printed photo, then "...why would they print a dirty as fuck underside" and then, finally, "oh, there's gunk on top of a translucent plastic sheet"

still, thought it was kind of neat!

texel density: not even once

ps. l'm a texture artist (among many other things), professionally (in the sense that it's my job, not that l'm good at it) and for a second it did feel like l was looking at a badly textured model lol