Generative AI
Like many techy creatives, I've been experimenting with using AI to augment the creative process. Surreal Materials are PBR textures for game developers to use in the Unity game engine.
They can purchase this pack of 31 materials, each of which has 8 texture maps for detailed photo-surrealism. The materials are designed for the Unity Universal Render Pipeline(URP).
I asked stable diffusion to generate textures for me in various styles. It didn't really grasp that textures should be flat and tile seamlessly.
However, the generated images that were interesting and I wanted to turn them into usable textures.
I used a mixture of perspective manipulation, digital painting and procedural tiling algorithms to bring these raw AI generated ideas into useable game textures.
The final materials are quite abstract, but can be used for walls, floors, organic matter and sci-fi scenery.
The pack available for sale on the Unity asset store: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/surreal-material-230337