I'm only a few months late this year but my 2026 #Mayterials are up on Artstation! artstation.com/artwork/DYxeN9
James Braley
@stylizedsculpts.bsky.social
Sr. Environment Artist @ Bladework Games - Prev: Hidden Leaf, Manticore, Vicarious Visions, Spiderling Studios - He/Him - https://www.artstation.com/jamesbraley
Here's the last of the pixelated Mayterials for this year. 13 - Makeshift 14 - Taboo 15 - Zen
Here's the next set of pixelized Mayterials. 09 - Scrawled 10 - Putrid 11 - Verdant 12 - Organized
Some of these materials work way better pixelized than others do. 🤷♂️ 05 - Marine 06 - Opulent 07 - Desolate 08 - Academy
I skipped last years set but here's the first four of my Mayterials from this year pixelized. Just some quick captures straight from Designer. 01 - Industrial 02 - Condemned 03 - Terrestrial 04 - Chiseled
Went back and did a few tweaks after posting again. After sitting with it for a bit, I felt like it was reading a bit too flat. 🤷♂️
#Mayterials 12 - Organized
Immediately after posting I went back to the material and thickened up the metal on the door/adjusted the roughness. Made a few tweaks to the lighting in the render as well.
#Mayterials 08 - Academy
#Mayterials 07 - Desolate (Deleted the first post because I accidentally left it at 1.5x tiling while rendering. Ended up making some adjustments to it as well)
It's that time of year again!
#Mayterials 2026 kicks off in just a few days, on May 1st! Here is the official prompt list! Don't forget to tag your materials with #Mayterials and #Mayterials2026 when you share them! Join us on Discord for more details and resources. discord.gg/Vq4F6gA
Whoops! We forgot to mention it here... #TheClubsRockingNewYear kicked off yesterday, January 1st! Join us in Discord to grab the provided meshes and share your progress! discord.gg/JEhZMnfkpC
Better late than never! I've been slowly chipping away at updating renders and getting my #mayterials from earlier this year ready to post. I finally sat down knocked the last of it out over the holiday break. They're up on Artstation now, let me know what you think!
That's a wrap on yet another year of #Mayterials! Huge thanks to everyone who checked out the materials, left comments gave their support along the way. I'll hopefully have all of the final renders up on my portfolio soon™!
#Mayterials 15 - Tactical A simple little camo net material to wrap up the challenge. #Mayterials2025 #SubstanceDesigner
#Mayterials 14 - Crumbling Did Oreos last year so I did Chips Ahoy this year! Started with a 3D Scan as a base. Clean up / stylization pass in ZBrush along with broken versions. Arranged some by hand in ZBrush and filled the rest in Designer. #Mayterials2025 #SubstanceDesigner