Shading Techniques in Blender
10th Grade · Art · 45 min
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Learning Objective
I can apply shading techniques in Blender to create professional 3D textures.
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To create realistic 3D textures in Blender, you can use shading tricks such as curvature maps, edge masking, and ambient occlusion.
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The Node Wrangler add-on in Blender is useful for quickly adding and controlling mapping and texture coordinate nodes, which can be enabled in preferences.
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An ambient occlusion mask is a shading technique used to calculate how exposed certain areas of a mesh are to ambient lighting; less exposed areas are darker, and more exposed areas are lighter.
