Creating Materials in Blender

1. Intro to Materials and Shading
Get started with the basics of what shaders are and how to assign materials in Blender.
- A word about Blender versions
  Playing Free
- How Shaders Manipulate Light
  Playing Free 1 min
- Creating Materials in Blender
  Playing Free 5 min
- Assigning Material Slots to Objects and Faces
  Playing Free 8 min
- Using Blender's Shader Editor
  Playing Free 6 min
- Intro to Materials and Shading Quiz
  Playing 4 questions
2. The Basic Blender Shader Nodes
An overview of how to use all the common shading effects in Blender.
- The Glossy and Diffuse Shaders
  Playing 5 min
- The Mix and Add Shaders
  Playing 6 min
- The Anisotropic Shader
  Playing 5 min
- The Transparent and Holdout Shaders
  Playing 4 min
- The Refraction and Glass Shaders
  Playing 5 min
- The Translucent Shader
  Playing 4 min
- The Subsurface Scattering Shader
  Playing 7 min
- The Absorption and Scattering Volume Shaders
  Playing 7 min
- The Emission, Velvet, and Toon Shaders
  Playing 5 min
- Shading From Observation
  Playing 10 min
- Basic Shader Nodes Quiz
  Playing 6 questions
3. How to Use Textures
An intro to using pre-made textures in your materials.
- Intro to Textures
  Playing 5 min
- Changing Texture Coordinates
  Playing 12 min
- The Socket Color Meanings
  Playing 8 min
- Blend Modes and Basic Color Math
  Playing 10 min
- Manipulating Normals
  Playing 7 min
- Using Normal Maps
  Playing 6 min
- Displacement and Adaptive Subdivision
  Playing 10 min
- Using Textures Quiz
  Playing 8 questions
4. Intro to Physically Based Rendering
Create better materials with physically based properties.
- Intro to Physically Based Rendering
  Playing 6 min
- Everything Has Fresnel
  Playing 10 min
- How Roughness Influences Fresnel
  Playing 6 min
- The Principled Shader
  Playing 11 min
- The Principled Hair Shader
  Playing 12 min
- The Principled Volume Shader
  Playing 4 min
- Shading the Orbot
  Playing 2 min
- Shading the Grass Field Mesh
  Playing 14 min
- Shading the Grass Field Hair
  Playing 8 min
- Physically Based Rendering Quiz
  Playing 6 questions
5. Rendering Materials and Shaders
How to optimize render settings for whatever materials are in your scene.
- Light Path Bounces
  Playing 8 min
- Light Path Visibility
  Playing 7 min
- Rendering Glass
  Playing 7 min
- Creating Glass Dispersion
  Playing 6 min
- Eevee Glass and Transparency
  Playing 10 min
- Eevee Reflection Cubemaps
  Playing 7 min
- Eevee Reflection Planes and Screen Space Reflection
  Playing 7 min
- Rendering Volumes
  Playing 13 min
6. The Materials and Shading Workflow
How to work with nodes and materials more efficiently.
- Shader to RGB Toon Effects
  Playing 8 min
- Freestyle Outline Effects
  Playing 1 min
- Layout Nodes and Shader Organization
  Playing 4 min
- Creating Group Nodes
  Playing 9 min
- Exporting Materials
  Playing 11 min
- Create Materials and Shaders for a Scene
  Playing
- Bonus: Animating the Material Transformation Effect
  Playing Free 8 min
- What to take next?
  Playing Free

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