Is there a way to get quick realistic wrinkles with physics, rather than manual sculpting?

Well, I don’t want to flat out steal another artist’s work, especially when the 3D market is so small in comparison to other markets, and also, the sculpting if it’s manual wouldn’t accommodate other different types of objects in a timely manner too, as a practical workflow skill, even though sculpting itself is still a good skill to have.

This is a good video of what I’m talking about, and why I think a physics-based answer would speed up my workflow: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uLiFrMMFTU0 as well as other peoples’. 

But, the object here in this cardboard example isn’t exactly a pillow, it’s more like a thin plastic material, so a different kind of physics setting would be needed than the pillow I assume.

But once you learn all the physics from CG Cookie, you can expect to make something like a pillow in only a few minutes with nice wrinkles though, right? What I’m trying to avoid is spending a long time manually sculpting physical deformations like wrinkles, and what I hope is that the physics videos here on CG Cookie are what teach you how to do that effectively. 

Hmm, alright, if you’re confident sculpting is the better way to go I’ll stick with it, it just really seems though that if you want “physically” realistic wrinkles in every-day, ordinary objects, the physics engine ought to be able to assist you.

Another problem is there’s not always reference material for what wrinkles “should” look like at your camera’s angle with your lighting with your stack of physics positioned how they are, so if you’re eye-balling it, it’s potentially less than believable.