Become a Material Guru in Blender

Become a Material Guru in Blender, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.59, with 90 lectures, based on 1445 reviews, and has 8769 subscribers.

You will learn about Understand the aspects of the Shader Editor when creating cycles nodes. Understand how to combine procedural texture with images and the difference between procedural and non procedural. Understand the fundamentals for complex materials like glass and volumetric. Understand how the UV can be useful in different types of tasks. Learn the vocabulary, so thing like caustics, reflection and refraction will be understandable. Understand how it is possible to control a materials appearance by using secondary objects like empties. Understand how to use more than one material on an object or create random output. This course is ideal for individuals who are Blender users that wants to achieve top notch result when creating materials and texturing, using Cycles It is particularly useful for Blender users that wants to achieve top notch result when creating materials and texturing, using Cycles.

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Summary

Title: Become a Material Guru in Blender

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.59

Number of Lectures: 90

Number of Published Lectures: 90

Number of Curriculum Items: 90

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 90

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Understand the aspects of the Shader Editor when creating cycles nodes.

Understand how to combine procedural texture with images and the difference between procedural and non procedural.

Understand the fundamentals for complex materials like glass and volumetric.

Understand how the UV can be useful in different types of tasks.

Learn the vocabulary, so thing like caustics, reflection and refraction will be understandable.

Understand how it is possible to control a materials appearance by using secondary objects like empties.

Understand how to use more than one material on an object or create random output.

Who Should Attend

Blender users that wants to achieve top notch result when creating materials and texturing, using Cycles

Target Audiences

Blender users that wants to achieve top notch result when creating materials and texturing, using Cycles

This is a massive course about Materials in Blender. It will guide you from the beginning where you literally know nothing until you reach a level where people envy your knowledge about material. The course touches all aspects around Material and have tons of examples that you will be able to use in your daily work even after you have ended the course.

I will not go through just how you do stuff, but also why and all the terms used. As an example, of many in the course, we build a glass material from scratch that will have both refraction, caustics and all the other complex stuff you have in glass, but will be both faster to render and with less noise compared to Blenders original way to do caustics and glass together.

I also go through different techniques on how to apply material so you get a good grip on how to use UV, apply decals and so onso it’s not “just” procedural even if you will get a lot of that as well. In shortI will cover all you ever will need to know about how to start and understand how material works in Blender.

It’s concentrated to the engine Cycles, since Eevee still lacks a few features but most of what you learn, you can do in both engines.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Setup

Lecture 3: Light

Chapter 2: Basic understanding of the node components

Lecture 1: Basic Node Types

Lecture 2: Apply Materials

Lecture 3: Three Common Maps

Lecture 4: Colors on your material

Lecture 5: Patterns on your material for 2.8x

Lecture 6: Patterns on your Material for 2.9x

Lecture 7: Create bumps

Lecture 8: Reflection and Roughness

Lecture 9: mask images

Lecture 10: Separate XYZ Node

Lecture 11: Manipulating the map

Lecture 12: Grouping the nodes

Lecture 13: Basic Math

Chapter 3: Textures

Lecture 1: Brick Texture

Lecture 2: Checker Texture

Lecture 3: Gradient Texture

Lecture 4: Magic Texture

Lecture 5: Musgrave Texture

Lecture 6: Noise Texture

Lecture 7: Voronoi Texture

Lecture 8: Wave Texture

Chapter 4: Using images as textures

Lecture 1: Introduction to using Images

Lecture 2: Using PBR Images

Chapter 5: First practical example – a tile wall.

Lecture 1: Setup for Tile Wall

Lecture 2: Add Mortar Noise

Lecture 3: Create Groups for the nodes

Lecture 4: Create Tiles

Lecture 5: Mortar Size variation

Lecture 6: Finalizing the tile wall (Roughness and reflection)

Chapter 6: Using the Object shape to place material

Lecture 1: Find Edges

Lecture 2: Add snow (dust and rust same principle).

Lecture 3: Adding smudge using the vertex paint

Lecture 4: Create an Eye using Z-axis separation

Chapter 7: How to use other objects to influence your material

Lecture 1: Setup the scene

Lecture 2: Smudge you Main object using Ambient Occlusion

Lecture 3: Smudge your main Object using a reference Object in the Texture coordinate Node

Lecture 4: Smudge your Main Object using Dynamic Paint.

Chapter 8: How to add material on a specific place

Lecture 1: UV Basics

Lecture 2: Multiple Materials

Lecture 3: Using UV to repeat patterns

Chapter 9: Second practical Example – Texture a Lantern

Lecture 1: Setup and Intro

Lecture 2: Adding First Base Materials

Lecture 3: Starting on the rust structure

Lecture 4: Rain influence

Lecture 5: Randomness

Lecture 6: Separate Paint and Rust with bumps

Lecture 7: Finalizing the Rust

Lecture 8: Finalizing the Paint

Lecture 9: Adding Glass

Lecture 10: Adding Rest of the Materials

Lecture 11: Adding DIETZ Logo On Glass

Lecture 12: Adding DIETZ Text on Bottom

Lecture 13: Adding Warning Sticker and Finalizing

Chapter 10: A closer look on the Object Info Node

Lecture 1: How to use the Object Index and Random output.

Lecture 2: Introduction to Location and Material Index output.

Chapter 11: Working with glass and similar materials

Lecture 1: Fireflies

Lecture 2: Definition of Words

Lecture 3: Introduction to Glass

Lecture 4: Creating a Glass of Water – Fake Dispersion

Lecture 5: Creating a Glass of Water – Adding Water

Lecture 6: Creating a Glass of Water – Adding Caustics

Lecture 7: Creating a Glass of Water – Finalizing all

Chapter 12: Third Practical Example – a bowl of candy

Lecture 1: Candy – Setup

Lecture 2: Candy – Adding Colors

Lecture 3: Adding Bumps

Lecture 4: Candy – Adding Subsurface scattering

Lecture 5: Candy – Finalizing and render

Chapter 13: Take a look at Normals

Lecture 1: Intro To Normal Maps

Lecture 2: Baking a Normal Map from a pattern

Lecture 3: Creating a Normal Map Procedurally

Chapter 14: Displacement

Lecture 1: Introduction to Displacment

Lecture 2: Coloring a displacement

Lecture 3: Using the Vector Displacement

Chapter 15: Particles and material

Lecture 1: The Particle Info Node

Lecture 2: The Principled Hair Node

Chapter 16: More Math and Vector Math

Lecture 1: Introduction to shaping things using math

Lecture 2: We start using Vector Math

Lecture 3: Creating stuff using Polar Coordinates

Lecture 4: Tiling by breaking down the map using Fraction.

Chapter 17: Scratches

Lecture 1: Create scratches using brush and TexturePaint

Instructors

Joakim Tornhill
A Blender material enthusiast

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1 stars: 14 votes

2 stars: 26 votes

3 stars: 115 votes

4 stars: 431 votes

5 stars: 859 votes

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