Let's Learn Blender! #3: Materials, Textures, Nodes, & HDRI's!

Thanks for watching! In this Blender tutorial I cover:
- 0:00 - Video Intro
- 0:10 - Tutorial Overview
- 1:40 - About BornCG (Colin) & My Channel
- 2:07 - Creating the Scene Objects & Layout
- 4:19 - Adding the first Material - Matte / Flat Green onto the Cube
- 7:06 - Using the same material on multiple objects, and duplicating materials
- 7:56 - Naming Materials
- 8:46 - Making a Glossy Red Material (on the Cylinder) + Material Preview HDRI reflections
- 10:26 - Enabling Screen-Space Reflections for EEVEE rendering
- 12:21 - Smoothing (Shade flat vs Shade Smooth) + Metal (metallic) material
- 14:14 - Glowing Yellow Material on the Donut / Torus! (emission + bloom)
- 16:21 - Purple Glass Material! + the Subdivision Surface Modifier (ctrl - 2)
- 21:27 - Simpler Ghost-Like Transparent material (alpha blend)
- 22:54 - Getting started with the Shader Editor & Nodes
- 26:00 - Mixing together different Shaders (using material nodes)
- 28:59 - Using Procedural Textures (Brick Texture)
- 35:01 - Creating a UV Grid image texture (new Image in Blender) for the floor, & Packing the Image into the .blend file
- 37:07 - Sky Color vs Sky Light (World/Environment Nodes + 'Light Path' Node)
- 44:23 - Rotating the HDRI World Texture (adjusting the Vector Mapping)
- 46:53 - The Final HDRI World Node Setup
- 47:10 - Video Wrap-Up, Call-to-Action, & Social Media

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[patrickleacy]

loved following this tutorial. i am 65 years old and partially sighted, i only had to pause a few times as everything was explained so clearly, i look forward to experimenting with these new skills and other tutorials. thank you

[MakeWithTech]

I was in the computer industry for 35 years, and now that I am retired, I spend a lot of time teaching people about 3d printing and other maker technologies. Blender has always mystified me. However, I needed to master it for a current project. I was ready to create a video teaching my 3d printer subscribers how to create 3d images from their STL files for posting on blogs, forums, and model sites. Before creating the video, I thought I would spend a few more minutes learning more about Blender, and I found your site.

Outstanding. Many videos are incomprehensible, given the number of "magic keystrokes" folks use with Blender. Your videos are a breath of fresh air. Thank you, and I will give you a shout-out in my video that I expect to post in the next day or two.

[Zeeeinez]

Your videos really made me put aside all distractions and discipline enough to learn all the basics. No rush, no shortcuts, clear explanations and fundamental understanding for a total beginner like me. Thank you so much!

[jasonblood]

This is the best tutorial series for blender without nonsense😀😀😀.
Thank you very much!

[easontang]

I watched all of your 2.8 Blender tutorials when I first started, which is about 6 months ago. I’ve improved a lot more, and your videos were as beneficial as the donut videos to me. Thank you

[rlrihards]

Hell yea! This is what I'm talking about! Finally I found tutorials what isn't slow and boring and what actually teaches, not like other ones. Fast, effectively and understandable! Thanks for work you've done.

[HelicopterSchool]

Wow! So well explained. Best tutorial I have seen to understand the basics of Nodes. So many tutorials out there are on using nodes to make things but none so far that I have found (except yours) actually just explain node basics. You made them really easy and now I can watch other tutorials out there with much greater understanding! Thank you from Hawaii!

[TheSillybits]

Very nice tutorial, no distractions, very clear, and topic all the time. Thanks

[koktabel]

Colin, thank you for all your learning blender videos. Your deep, structured and straight forward explenation of the certain topic are overwhelming. If are you planning to create series focusing on architecture vizualisation we will appreciate it.

[blueroom]

You, sir, are a GREAT teacher. Thank you! Really appreciate these tutorials!

[synthbendati]

Dude you are the best, There is tons of blender texture material toturials but yours is really complete and simple and really helped me a lot. Thank you so so much

[wormholeinteractive]

Amazing series! You are a natural teacher.

[NekiK]

Your video is very easy to understand, some issues other tutorial videos often skip but it is very detailed. Thanks for all!

[ChokDK-bryllupsmusik-duo]

Most informative and understandable Blender videos ever.
Lucky students :)
BTW Greetings to you @Patrick Leacy - I'm "only" 60 and just starting with Blender now :)

[SamB]

Wow, this is so packed with information that I have to pause the video almost every few seconds and spend several minutes to actually learn what has been shown in those few seconds. Hahaha. Perfect.

[awg-ocnu]

Thank you for this tutorial.
I have to say that I'm enjoying Blender. I've come much further more quickly than I ever did with 3DS, especially with good educators such as yourself.
Thanks again.

[eschuurm]

Your tutorials are really good! It's abundantly obvious you are an educator. Please continue creating these!

[gunsbd]

bruh these tuts are so GOOD pls make more also u earned a sub

[LaughterCraft]

awesome video!! I'm getting into 3D modeling/animation now, and your channel has by far the best tutorials I've found. Thank you so much for producing these!

[rocatalin]

You are absolutely amazing! Not sure how I didn't get to your channel until now! Can't say thank you enough, for all the work!!!