Creating PBR materials

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Philosophy

Dec 13, 2025

Architecture has always been about materiality. The way light falls on concrete, the grain of wood under your hand, the cold precision of steel — these sensory experiences define how we inhabit space. When I transitioned from building physical spaces to crafting digital materials, I carried this understanding with me. Every texture I create is informed by years of studying how materials behave in the real world. This isn't about replication. It's about translation — taking the essence of architectural materiality and expressing it in a way that serves digital creators.

“Light is not only illumination — it is a tool that defines the attitude of a surface.”

understanding light direction

When light moves across vertical ridges, it creates a rhythm of highlights and shadows. Subtle variations in height exaggerate this rhythm, resulting in a living texture that changes with the environment.

material depth through shadow

The deeper the groove, the more dramatic the shadow falloff becomes. But in architectural materials, restraint is key — too much depth breaks the calmness, too little makes the surface feel flat.

crafting the texture

These textures are shaped through controlled tooling — small, intentional imperfections that give each material its individuality. Rather than smoothing them away, we preserve these traces as part of the story.