"What gave me confidence from the start was knowing that colormass offers a complete, ready-to-use workflow for delivering high-quality textures. Beyond scanning, they provide the full pipeline, from cleanup to seamless tiling, so I could focus entirely on curating the collection, and not troubleshooting the production process."
Texture Crate is a digital materials brand based in Athens, Greece, with the goal of building high-quality material libraries tailored to 3D artists. The Texture Crate collection is designed to be versatile and production-ready, whether you're using Blender, Cinema 4D, or any other DCC application that supports PBR workflows.
To ensure the highest level of realism and accuracy, Dimitris partnered with colormass to scan real-world fabric samples. This professional scanning pipeline captures the complete optical properties of each textile, resulting in detailed and consistent texture sets suitable for high-end rendering work.
By combining carefully selected materials with a technically robust scanning process, Texture Crate offers a growing resource that empowers 3D artists tofocus on creativity without compromising on quality.
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When Texture Crate set out to build premium material libraries, realism and consistency were non-negotiable. Founder Dimitris Katsafouros wanted to provide 3D artists with high-quality, physically accurate materials that are ready to use in any scene. Without the need for extensive tweaking.
The launch collection focuses on fabrics, a foundational material category used across everything from product visualization to motion graphics. Rather than attempting to recreate fabric properties with procedural workflows, Dimitris chose to use the colormass PBR scanner, knowing its fidelity and precision would meet the expectations of demanding professionals.
Each textile was carefully selected and shipped to colormass’s European facility. Once scanned, the data was used to create asset libraries for Blender and Cinema 4D.
To share the process and showcase the results, Dimitris produced a YouTube video walking through the scanned fabric collection, how it was made, and how artists can use it effectively in their scenes:
Thanks to this collaboration, Texture Crate successfully launched a library of 50 fabric materials, bringing real-world textile detail into the digital space. By relying on colormass’s expertise, Dimitris was able to focus on curation, presentation, and distribution, confident that the technical foundation was handled to the highest standard.
With future collections already planned, Texture Crate will expand into plastics, woods, metals, and more, all captured using the colormass scanning system. The plan? Removing technical barriers so 3D artists can focus on what truly matters: creating without limits.
