Stylized Texturing in 2026: A Practical Pipeline
A practical stylized texturing pipeline for game artists: blockout, bakes, generator stacks and the mistakes that kill a stylized read.
# Why Stylized Still Wins
Stylized art ages slower than photoreal and ships on weaker hardware.
# The Core Loop
- Block out shapes in Blender
- Bake curvature and AO
- Paint in Substance with generator stacks
# Common Mistakes
Overnoising albedo is the number one killer of stylized reads.
Texturing Substance Wryter
