Learn Substance Designer with industry legend Daniel Thiger as he teaches you to create beautiful procedural textures fast. Master core nodes, build custom shaders, and produce polished materials that level up your portfolio and career.
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A guided path through every stage of the course, broken down into focused lessons you can work through at your own pace.
Lesson 1
Daniel will begin this Course by covering some of the basics in Substance Designer like UI, camera navigation and window layout. You'll learn about working with nodes, PBR Textures, and how to export your textures. Finally, he will demonstrate how to create sub-graphs and template nodes.
Lesson 2
In this Lesson, Daniel will first go over the basics of Marmoset Toolbag. You'll also learn about bit depth, the basics of his workflow, and creating custom 3D geometry. After this, you will begin to texture each area of your scene.
Lesson 3
Here is where you really start getting detailed with your textures. In this Lesson, you'll go through the rest of your scene, creating interesting visual concepts throughout. Daniel will share several insights about the benefits of procedural texture creation, and arm you with different tricks to speed up your process.
Lesson 4
In this final Lesson, Daniel will help you to block in basic colors, and set up your color palette within Substance Designer. You'll then begin coloring each item, creating variation in material properties along the way, and adding dirt and surface variation for even more realism. Finally, you will present your finished scene using Marmoset Toolbag.
Daniel Thiger is a veteran artist with two decades of experience at studios like DICE and Bungie, specializing in cutting-edge material, texture, and procedural asset creation. Now a full-time freelancer, he collaborates with top studios including Adobe, Blizzard, Epic, Ubisoft, and Valve. Known for his deep expertise in Substance Designer, Daniel continues to push procedural workflows through his renowned tutorials and material libraries.
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Daniel will begin this Course by covering some of the basics in Substance Designer like UI, camera navigation and window layout. You'll learn about working with nodes, PBR Textures, and how to export your textures. Finally, he will demonstrate how to create sub-graphs and template nodes.
In this Lesson, Daniel will first go over the basics of Marmoset Toolbag. You'll also learn about bit depth, the basics of his workflow, and creating custom 3D geometry. After this, you will begin to texture each area of your scene.
Here is where you really start getting detailed with your textures. In this Lesson, you'll go through the rest of your scene, creating interesting visual concepts throughout. Daniel will share several insights about the benefits of procedural texture creation, and arm you with different tricks to speed up your process.
In this final Lesson, Daniel will help you to block in basic colors, and set up your color palette within Substance Designer. You'll then begin coloring each item, creating variation in material properties along the way, and adding dirt and surface variation for even more realism. Finally, you will present your finished scene using Marmoset Toolbag.
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