Vincent Dérozier introduces his workshop with a brief introduction of his background, including his traditional art training and key career milestones. This lesson also introduces the workshop’s objectives, supported by reference images and render previews to provide context and establish the project's visual direction.

Duration: 3m 35s

Using Substance Designer, Vincent establishes the material's foundational structure. This lesson includes building base shapes, introducing controlled breakups and deformations, and constructing a clear hierarchical structure.

Duration: 30m 36s

This lesson focuses on the development of secondary forms and surface logic. He explores how to define volumes, merge elements cohesively, create stepping effects, and introduces chiseling, mineral characteristics, cracks, and porosity.

Duration: 37m 40s

This lesson focuses on the application of color theory and procedural techniques. Starting from a neutral base, Vincent uses custom noises, gradient maps, temperature variation, mineral deposits, weathering, and patina to reinforce depth and material readability.

Duration: 38m 35s

In this lesson, Vincent demonstrates how creating convincing, realistic stone materials requires much more than a simple base color and curvature pass; it demands careful layering of frequencies, pigments, leaks, and edge detail, all grounded in the surface's height data. By learning how to control what the viewer sees first, second, and third through shape hierarchy and rhythm, he showcases how to achieve detailed, natural, and visually engaging results.

Duration: 43m 8s

This lesson details the construction of roughness variation to support realism and surface storytelling. Topics included in this lesson cover sediment flow patterns, thickness-driven variation, and embedded stone details.

Duration: 15m 51s

In this lesson, Vincent focuses on helping artists understand the efficiency of graphs in production. He examines and explains how to simplify node structures and identify which elements can be reduced without compromising visual fidelity.

Duration: 30m 33s

In this penultimate lesson, Vincent discusses adapting and extending the base graph to generate alternative heightmaps and surface variations, building a scalable and reusable material system.

Duration: 41m 18s

To conclude Vincent’s workshop, he looks at final refinements and render analysis, and discusses the importance of deterministic workflows and their role in professional production pipelines.

Duration: 16m 11s