Archive for the ‘Materials’ Category
Creating a Lightbulb – part 2
September 8, 2009

prayingmantis_screenshotIn this follow-up video tutorial to the Lightbulb Modeling tutorial, we look at how to take our model and a basic scene and apply various materials in order to get a semi-realistic effect. This tutorial covers the creation of materials for plastic, glass, metal, and a lit-up bulb!

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Creating a Praying Mantis in Blender

prayingmantis screenshot Creating a Praying Mantis in BlenderIn this video tutorial we will look at modeling a cartoon style praying mantis in Blender. This tutorial covers the entire modeling process, based from a sketch, and then goes to look at some basic materials and rendering.

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UV Unwrap a Human Head
June 18, 2009

unwrappingahead screenshot UV Unwrap a Human HeadBlender’s UV tools are some of the best in the industry, this tutorial shows how to make use of them and unwrap the UVs on a human head.

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Using Stencil Maps to Blend Materials

stencilmaps screenshot Using Stencil Maps to Blend MaterialsUsing Blender’s Materials nodes this tutorial describes how to use a stencil map to blend two seperate materials. In this case mixing a simple grey shader with a mutated, gnarly shader!

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Modeling a Steampunk Telescope

steampunktelescope screenshot Modeling a Steampunk TelescopeThis tutorial goes through the process of modeling and texturing a simple, Steampunk telescope using Blender’s modeling tools and Material Node system.

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Create a Teddy Bear Part 2
June 13, 2009

teddybear screenshot Create a Teddy Bear Part 2In part 2 of this Teddy Bear tutorial we will be looking at home to make a nice burlap texture with nothing but procedural materials.

Note: in order to follow this tutorial fully, you can download the texture plugin here: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mein/blender/plugins/texture.html.

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