Environment Art2024-10-16T12:23:38-05:00

ENVIRONMENT ART

ENVIRONMENT ART

art by Cody Alday

Storytelling Through Scenes

From scenic landscapes to urban settings, Toolbag provides extensive tools to help you develop rich narratives through environment design. Iterate rapidly, create natural lighting, and capture cinematic renders with advanced camera controls and rendering options.

Streamlined Scene Setup

Block out your scenes with Toolbag’s easy-to-use editor and preview your environment across several viewports simultaneously.

Integrate Toolbag’s built-in Library into your pipeline by saving, sorting, and sharing content with your team through a repository.

Dynamic Resolution Control

Import lightweight meshes, then increase resolution directly in Toolbag with subdivision settings and the Displacement shader to create rolling terrain, rocky surfaces and cliffs, and detailed facades.

Adaptable Material Application

Easily drag and drop materials from the Library into your scene, and enjoy a UV-free workflow with tri-planar material projection.

Save time on complex modeling tasks and achieve a natural, realistic look for your environments with the Bevel shader.

Layer Your Materials

With Toolbag’s advanced material layering system, you can create complex, blended multi-material effects for weathered buildings, terrain, and more. Combine tri-planar projection and vertex color blending for a completely UV-free workflow.

Independently adjust each layer’s properties and blend modes to enhance the appearance of dirt build-up and stains.

Texturing Made Easy

Toolbag’s Texture projects streamline material creation for 3D environment artists by offering innovative procedural texturing methods, intuitive 3D painting and sampling tools, and endless options for masking and stacking. Whether you’re texturing weathered stone walls or eroded cliffs, these tools let you achieve highly detailed and realistic environments with ease.

Stunningly Realistic Renders

Obtain a sense of realism and physical accuracy in your final renders with ray-traced rendering.

Procedural skies can match any time of day, from a golden sunrise to a moody twilight scene. Enhance the atmosphere with fog objects—perfect for adding depth to dense forests or misty valleys—and use dynamic depth-of-field camera adjustments to direct the viewer’s eye toward key elements in your composition.

Environment Materials & HDRIs

Enhance the quality of your scenes using hundreds of free high-quality HDRIs and materials with Toolbag’s integrated Library.

Combine and customize materials to create convincing weathering for rugged terrain or worn-down structures. Select from a wide range of seamless vegetation, metal, dirt, stone, and concrete materials to texture everything from urban environments to natural scenes.

Need a shortcut? Apply adaptable Smart Materials to any Texture Project, perfect for adding rust to machinery, erosion to cliffs, or moss to ancient ruins.

Ben Armstrong

3D Environment Artist

“Marmoset Toolbag has been the cornerstone of my art creation workflow for over ten years. I rely on Toolbag’s speed and reliability to build and present my personal and professional work. From initial look dev to baking complex assets to final frames and everything in between, it has become an indispensable part of my workflow.”

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