ABOUT

My entry for the Allegorithmic 2017 Substance Painter 3D painting contest. The brief was to conceptualize and paint a design on to a provided base mesh using Substance Painter. The shape of the head (actually the standard object used to present Substance Painter materials) reminded me of a washing machine portal, so I used this concept for my design, projecting the grumpy cat on to the mesh as an extra detail.

Under the competition guidelines, no geometry was allowed to be added, so I generated normal maps from 3D models I created in Maya and applied them as textures to simulate detail. This fake geometry includes the coin slot, the control panel, the door handle, the vents and the dent in the body.