Stylized Substances : Video Tutorial Series 2

2nd Tutorial video - Grass

Note : Original source (.sbs) is not included

Still very new to tutorials, made a amateur mistake where some video is 720 and some is 1080 but it's all readable. Same with audio where recording quality differs. It's 2+ hours of video broken into multiple segments

In this video I begin with a theories section, something I am thinking of having in all tutorials where I briefly talk about my time with Substance and then show a few quick random techniques. These techniques could be new or updated methods of existing techniques that tend to evolve with updated nodes. In this chapter theories goes over why I initially struggled to understand procedural texturing, hyper stylized edge highlights and more specifically, controlling wood splits on the edge of surfaces.

Then I essentially break down the grass material I made recently. I do it from scratch so it's a more rough and ready version of it but it shares many of the techniques I used in creating the original. I explain building the grass layers and then the plants/flowers before bringing it all together with a video where I explain my general roughness pass process.

If you have any feedback, let me know in order to help me with future videos.

Notes : HeightPreview.sbs included if needed. It's just a way of seeing height information if you don't already have such a setup/node.