Become a Material Guru in Blender

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