Painting Smeary Marks On Phone Screen In Blender

Keeping your phone screen free from fingerprints and everyday dirt can be frustrating, however, if you're looking to enhance the realism of your 3D project, 3D Artist Ilyasse L showed how you can dirty a surface on purpose using Blender.

Utilizing Dynamic Paint, which facilitates creating various effects that leave traces such as footsteps, paint, or raindrops, turning objects into paint canvases and brushes, Ilyasse L used some plastic texture to make a sweaty hand leave a mark on this Samsung phone:

Here's another interesting texture use case: the artist placed the same phone inside a ziplock bag using these free plastic textures:

Ilyasse L is also known as the developer of various Blender tools, such as this nice ice material and procedural mold generator, with more available on the artist's Gumroad page:

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