brutalist-mood

Brutalist Mood

Monumental concrete. Austere. Human small. Few materials.

Recipe

Target: one raw concrete material (grey about 0.35, roughness 0.9, metallic 0), flat overcast light, wide 24 mm low camera so the monolith dominates and a human-sized figure is under 1/10 of frame height.

1. pbr_material MAT_Concrete: base_color [0.36, 0.36, 0.35], roughness 0.9, metallic 0.0. Add board-formed grain with a Noise or Wave texture into the Bump node by hand; no second material.
2. bevel_stack with width 0.02, segments 1: concrete edges are chamfered, never rounded.
3. light_rig overcast (large soft sun, grey sky) for even, shadowless mass; use moonlight for a night variant.
4. camera_rig lens_mm 24, elevation_deg 4 (looking up), fill 0.9, dof_fstop None.
5. comp_grade noir for monochrome, or cinematic with warmth -0.2 and vignette 0.25 for cold colour.

import runpy
skills = "<skills_dir>"  # parent folder of this skill (the plugin's skills/ directory)
target = "SM_Asset"      # object to style / dress
r = {}
r["material"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/materials/scripts/pbr_material.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "MAT_Concrete", "base_color": [0.36, 0.36, 0.35], "roughness": 0.9, "metallic": 0.0, "objects": [target]}})["result"]
r["bevel"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/hard-surface/scripts/bevel_stack.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"objects": [target], "width": 0.02, "segments": 1}})["result"]
r["light"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/lighting/scripts/light_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "overcast", "target": target}})["result"]
r["camera"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/camera-cinematography/scripts/camera_rig.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"name": "CAM_Mono_01", "target": target, "lens_mm": 24, "elevation_deg": 4, "fill": 0.9}})["result"]
r["grade"] = runpy.run_path(f"{skills}/compositing/scripts/comp_grade.py", init_globals={"ARGS": {"preset": "cinematic", "warmth": -0.2, "vignette": 0.25}})["result"]
result = r