Flocked Velvet
- flocking
- velvet render
- suede finish
- short nap
Very short dense fibre standing straight up, so the surface absorbs light and has no highlight.
Opens an image model with the prompt in it. The price is on the page before you sign in.
What it is for
Fibre standing on end traps light between the threads, so a velvet surface goes almost black where it turns away and glows where it faces the light. That extreme falloff is why velvet reads as expensive: nothing else describes a form so completely with so little.
How it works
A very short nap covers everything, standing perpendicular to the surface. There is no specular highlight. Colour deepens sharply on the turn. The silhouette is soft rather than crisp, and a rim light behind catches the ends of the fibre.
When to use it
Use it for luxury, softness and anything that should look touchable. Avoid it where a form needs a crisp edge, because velvet refuses one.
Told apart from its neighbours
Tufted Carpet is longer and cut flat on top. Felt and Fabric adds woven cloth and stitched seams. Long Pile Fur is long enough for individual strands to read.
Where it is used
It carries a packaging render, a product page, an app icon and any object meant to look premium.
- Product and packaging renders
- Advertising and app icons
The prompt
Replace the blanks with your own character, keep the rest. Then run it on an image model.
<character> as a single object made entirely of flocked velvet, the figure and everything on it including the skin and the hair one continuous flocked surface, a very short dense nap of fibre standing straight up from every surface, no specular highlight anywhere because the light is absorbed rather than reflected, the colour deepening sharply where the surface turns away from the light, a soft velvety edge on the silhouette rather than a hard one, a strong rim light behind picking out the nap, a plain background and soft studio light
What goes wrong
A matte plastic object comes back. Ask for the nap standing straight up, no specular highlight anywhere, and colour deepening sharply on the turn.
Leave out
gloss, a specular highlight, a hard silhouette, long visible strands, woven texture, a smooth surface
Watch for
No highlight at all. Velvet is the one material with almost no specular return, and a single bright spot anywhere makes it read as plastic.
Questions
Draw it
Pay for the one run. No subscription, and the price is on the model page before you sign in.
