docs/020_MasterArtBible/materials/gunmetal.md

Gunmetal

Visuele omschrijving

Dark industrial metal with blue-purple shadows and small aggressive highlights.

Pixelcluster regels

Use dense dark clusters with small bright cuts.


DDDDM.

DDMHH.

DDDMM.

Contrast

High local contrast inside a dark value range.

Hue shifting

Purple-blue shadow, desaturated blue-gray mid, warm pin highlight.

Highlights

Tiny but connected highlight groups.


...HH.

DDMMH.

DDDD..

Shadow behavior

Large dark masses must not collapse into pure black.

Outline

Near-dark blue-purple, never black.

Rim lighting

Cool rim can be brighter than the key highlight if needed for silhouette.

Ambient lighting

Very low ambient.

AA regels

Sparse AA; keep hard industrial edges.

Dithering regels

Avoid dithering; use plate breaks and scratches.

Veel voorkomende fouten

Bad:


BBBBB

B...B

BBBBB

Good:


DDMHH

DDMMM

DDDMM

QA checklist

Open raw source