Make Realistic Ice in 10 minutes in Blender (Procedural) 2022

Learn how to make photorealistic ice in Blender 🧊 Even if you've never used BSDF shader node before.

We'll use Eevee as well as Cycles and you can add a lot of your own variation to the final result by changing the roughness, using different noise scales and introducing new types of noise to create different types of ice.

[0:27] Starting with the default cube
[0:47] Displacement modifier
[1:30] Bevel modifier
[2:00] Shader editor - adding materials
[2:20] Making the ice cube transparent 🧊
[4:30] Adding HDRIs
[6:45] Adjusting the roughness of our ice
[7:30] Switching to Cycles
[8:15] IOR = Index of Refraction

This tutorial is great for beginners and pros alike. Chris explains every detail while getting straight to the point. Enjoy! 🧊

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[kurtlindner]

Great tutorial, super easy to not only follow but actually learn from and understand what's going on.
Thank you for everything you do.

[CharanBMusic]

So simple but effective, definitely picked a few things up here along with other videos. This channel is becoming a favourite

[MikeTaylor-uwzy]

So nice. You deserve a cookie! A CG cookie.

[UluruNoobGuy]

Finally a video that uses the spawn cube

[Fernando-sohl]

Incredible and easy tutorial. I was going in to this thinking I was going to sit with a 20 minute tutorial without understanding anything ty

[JaredOwen]

Fantastic! I really like these bite size videos - really good tips

[energeticoak]

Dude, as a begginer this tutorial was just awsome! keep going man

[KingKiloOfficial]

Shiiiieeee', this is looking fresh. Nice little tutorial!

[travissmith]

I enjoyed this tutorial... When I can get something similar to the tutorial... Then I feel like I learned something... And the commentary helped me to understand what I am doing and why... Thanks for sharing...

[cg.man_aka_kevin]

Try to add some cloudy whitish volume inside the ice cubes. First, used the principle volume node and a detailed rough displacement to make it look like lines frozen in ice. It's the effect of being trapped inside the ice in the real world. :)

[kieranzgoku]

Thank you for this tutorial, I was trying to make a model look entirely like ice, this did it!

[VryHgh]

if youre watching in 2024, Screen Space Reflections in EEVEE is replaced with the Raytrace option, tick that.

[lofisgames]

Oh man! This is such an amazing tutorial. Thanks for your help :D

[sicfxmusic]

My beer needs some of those default ice cubes 🍺🤤

[Graphicales]

Great tutorial, very easy to follow. Many thanks for sharing CG Cookies

[vaguedestruction]

Nice, now I can make realistic 3D Cryogen from Terraria Calamity Mod.

[竹井清恭]

Thank you very much :) Simple and efficient material setup for beginners.

[Owlzon]

for those who can't find the "options"/"setting" to adjust the blend mode: go to material properties and scroll down. you'll see the setting tab.

[niceaizu]

usually i use water to make ice but i loved this tutorial!

[g.n.r.]

3:00 I'm using Blender 4.0, and my "principled" bsdf isn't structured that way. What should I do?