Shading Techniques in Blender
Grade 10th Grade · Art · 45 min
What's Included
Learning Objective
I can apply shading techniques in Blender to create professional 3D textures.
Warm-Up Video
Kaizen · 11:23
How to Create Professional Materials
Guided Notes
3 key concepts
- 1
To create realistic 3D textures in Blender, you can use shading tricks such as curvature maps, edge masking, and ambient occlusion.
- 2
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.
- 3
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.
Practice Questions
7 questions · Short answer
Exit Ticket
Quick comprehension check
“In Blender, describe the process of creating a curvature map using the Geometry node and Color Ramp, including how to add variation to the map.”
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