CG Cookie has published several courses dedicated to becoming a PRO with Blender.
The course includes 40+ lessons dedicated to shading and materials.
"Each lesson is no more than 15 minutes (most are much shorter) so you can watch them without getting overwhelmed and take in the information, bit-by-bit.", adds the CG Cookie team.
The topics covered during the course:
The mentor will guide you through the workflow in Cycles and show all the main properties of light objects and environment lights, how to tweak them to get the results you want. Along the way, you’ll learn important concepts about path tracing and how light works in general, which will help you create any lighting effect on your own.
From there you’ll switch over to Eevee and demystify what’s going on with shadows, environments, and bounce lighting during rasterization, so you can get as close to Cycles quality as possible.
"Lastly, you’ll look at how to take your lighting from good to great by talking about best practices and a few tricks that can instantly transform a render from “ok but kinda boring” to jump right out of the screen.", comments the mentor of the course.
The course includes 6 chapters split into 40 lessons. Topics covered during the tutorial:
After the first part of the course you'll have 2 challenges: Create a Lava Shader and Paint a Low Poly Axe by Hand.
At the end of the course, you will learn texturing workflow tips and have a look at intermediate topics, such as trim sheets, decals, texture baking, and more. The final challenge will be to take a motorcycle model and texture it.
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