Become a Material Guru in Blender

How to create, use and handle all kind of textures and materials in Blender

Created by: Joakim Tornhill
A Blender material enthusiast

What Will I 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.

Requirements

• Need to have Blender on your machine and have a basic understanding of the tool.

Target audience

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