Brendon Chung has recently shared an excellent breakdown of the way he’s creating fluffy carpets for his project Skin Deep.

First, check out the final results below:

The final model consists of eleven polygons and actually looks like a carpet. The artist started the whole thing with this tech writeup of the fur tech in Shadow of Colossus.

Basically, creating a carpet is about setting up a series of layers: 

Each layer here is a flat plane. The texture is said to be a bunch of dots, representing the carpet fibers. “When you stack layers tightly together, it creates the illusion of a fluffy carpet.”

Animations of the layers getting stacked up:

Make sure to check out the full breakdown here.