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Material Creation for Cycles

What is this "Shader Forge" business? Well, this video is the first in what I intend to be a progressive and long-winded series focusing on creating all types of shaders (materials) for use with the Cycles render engine. Thus the on-going topic is "forging shaders".

Lately, material creation has captured my attention. Because with enough time and effort, materiality can breathe such life into a CG scene. On the other hand, lackluster materials can suck the life out of an otherwise high-quality scene. Therefore, I implore you to join me in leveling up our shader-forging skills!

Car Paint
With cars, bikes and other vehicles being a very common subject matter in digital art, Car Paint is a very popular material in the 3D industry. We all should know how to build a decent one.

In this video I’m going to show you how to build a blue car paint material using our brand new CG Cookie shader totem. The end result is a robust and flexible material that can be applied to a wide range of vehicles, like Mike Pan's popular BMW scene pictured to the right.

Check out the free course on how this was created.

Description
Material Creation for Cycles

What is this "Shader Forge" business? Well, this video is the first in what I intend to be a progressive and long-winded series focusing on creating all types of shaders (materials) for use with the Cycles render engine. Thus the on-going topic is "forging shaders".

Lately, material creation has captured my attention. Because with enough time and effort, materiality can breathe such life into a CG scene. On the other hand, lackluster materials can suck the life out of an otherwise high-quality scene. Therefore, I implore you to join me in leveling up our shader-forging skills!

Car Paint
With cars, bikes and other vehicles being a very common subject matter in digital art, Car Paint is a very popular material in the 3D industry. We all should know how to build a decent one.

In this video I’m going to show you how to build a blue car paint material using our brand new CG Cookie shader totem. The end result is a robust and flexible material that can be applied to a wide range of vehicles, like Mike Pan's popular BMW scene pictured to the right.

Check out the free course on how this was created.