TechArt

Blender material preview sphere with a scanned fabric material, on a printed reference grid.

2026 TechArt / Automation / Photo

PBR Automation, From Photo to Material

Photographing a fabric from eight angles and letting code do what Substance Designer used to do. It almost works, and the seams still show.
Blender with the Distributed Render panel open, a frame assembling itself bucket by bucket.

2026 TechArt / Pipelines

Distributed Bucket Rendering for Blender

A Blender addon that splits a frame into buckets, farms them out to containers, and composites them back into the render window as they land.