Heavy-Duty Canvas Tarps - Product renders

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PROTARP specializes in durable, high-quality tarps made from 100% virgin polyethylene. Designed for strength and versatility, their tarps are waterproof, UV-resistant, and built to withstand extreme conditions. MADE BY THE PROS FOR THE PROS.

3D Modeler & Rendering Specialist: 3D modeling, texturing, and lighting to create images optimized for e-commerce pages.

The Challenge: First and foremost, when a 3D designer encounters a product like this, they immediately turn to programs such as Marvelous Designer or Clo3D because these are specifically designed for working with fabric simulations. Since, in essence, the product is just a simple flat surface, I wasn’t an exception and tried to fold it in the same way as in the client’s references using Marvelous Designer. And… unfortunately, I failed. When working with a product that, in real life, measures 20'x20', and you need to fold it multiple times, Marvelous Designer turned into a headache for me. Constant issues with collisions and sticking vertices. In the end, I decided to model everything manually without using cloth simulations.

Photorealism: For the folds, I used a normal map combined with sculpting. To create the tiling texture, I utilized photoscan and Materialize. The stitches were simple cubes with subdivisions that followed a curve. Additionally, I added hair particles to achieve greater realism. As the rendering engine, I used Cycles.