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Dallas Cowboy – Textured Fabric Material

Maya | Arnold | Custom Shader

Dallas Cowboy is a digitally recreated upholstery fabric designed for production use, featuring a bold, high-contrast monochrome pattern layered over a deeply tactile surface. The material combines graphic clarity with a pronounced textile structure, making it both visually striking and physically expressive when applied to large-scale furniture forms.

The most technically demanding aspect of this material was accurately replicating the raised bump and surface compression of the fabric weave. Achieving this required a careful balance of displacement, bump mapping, and shader refinement to ensure the texture retained depth and realism without appearing over-processed or noisy in close-up production renders.

A custom Arnold shader was built to simulate the plush, structured feel of the fabric, incorporating nuanced roughness variation and directional surface response to reflect how light interacts with its uneven profile. This allowed the fabric to maintain its soft, tactile quality while preserving the integrity of the graphic pattern across folds and contours.

The result is a production-ready material that successfully bridges bold visual design with physical believability, suitable for high-end interior visualisation and commercial product imagery.

Key Focus:
-High-detail textile surface replication
-Advanced bump and height simulation for fabric depth
-Custom shader development for tactile realism
-Pattern clarity across complex geometry
-Production-optimised material performance