Senior Material Artist, NVIDIA
The ability to create a realistic wood texture in Substance Designer is an essential skill for any aspiring material or environment artist. In this tutorial, material artist Derk Elshof guides you through his process for creating a dynamic wood material with a tweakable slider for aging.
Derk is well known for his clean style, attention to detail, and his ability to recreate almost any type of material using nothing but Substance Designer. And as a bonus, watch as Derk sculpts a medieval door and applies his texture in Substance Painter.
Derk Elshof is a Senior Material Artist at NVIDIA in Malmö. He got his start as a 2D/3D artist in motion graphics and VFX, then found his passion for material creation in Substance Designer while studying 3D animation. After freelancing for Dekogon and a period at Massive Entertainment (a Ubisoft studio), he moved to NVIDIA, where his work includes materials for Half-Life 2 RTX, Portal RTX, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. His breakdowns and methodology can be found on Experience Points and 80lvl.