Small round things

Quick prompt: Pebbles

Time taken: Embarrassing

Had a lot of fun with these. Playing around with geometry nodes is always a good time but it was meant to be a quick render for a prompt and I’ve wasted too much time on it.

Definitely suffering from the aforementioned taste gap here. I think some of my processes were good but some of them just aren’t right and the final result is not great.

Partly this comes down to just needing to put more time into the shading, in particular varying the different pebbles I have more deliberately and on more than just hue.

Additionally I know I should be layering more levels of texture with dents, rock strata, etc.

I’ve spent more than enough time on this already so I must stash it away for now and return later with a better understanding of shading, lighting, texturing, etc.