Explore our continuing Blender video series on crafting shaders for the Cycles render engine. Dive deep into how quality materials can transform and elevate any CG scene

How to create shaders and materials in Blender? In this Blender course, you will learn everything you need to know about materials in Cycles and Eevee, custom shaders,...

Learn about our new Shader School course which covers the fundamentals of learning how to build shaders from scratch in Unity.

Procedural shaders are a powerful but underrated tool in Blender. Today, we’re going to learn how to use them to create a realistic 3D cube of ice.

Halftone shaders are fairly easy to set up, but there's a few things you might want to learn about the math of shaders. Join me this week to learn!

Blender has a principled BSDF shader that serves as an uber shader and very useful tool. But it's not good for everything. Go beyond tutorials and bring your questions...

In time for Nodevember 2021, here are great Blender material and shader tutorials and courses that will help you join the fun and push your limits.

Learn how to use Unity's Physically Based Shaders (PBS) with materials and texturing fundamentals.

CG Cookie Blender Shader totem

In this short course we'll create a photorealistic Pokéball model using subsurface and hard-surface modeling techniques, procedural shaders and animations!

Night Vision Blender Shader

Learn to create believable animated fire with Blender 2.8 and shader nodes. No particles or smoke simulation, only material tricks!

In this Blender course, learn how to create materials and shaders. Whether you're going for a stylized or realistic look, this 40-lesson course with a practice Blender...

If "Texturing" is like a paint's color then "Shading" is like a paint's finish: matte, semi-gloss, hi-gloss, etc. Shading is what makes an object appear metallic, tran...

Download the working halftone shader file Paul created on his livestreams here!

Continuing on from last week, I'll add a few more nodes to allow for variance in our halftone settings, dive deeper into setting up groups, and finish the comic style ...

The CGC Eevee Glass shader doesn't fix that fundamental issue, but it does cleverly disguise it by giving you more control over which parts of your object are refracti...

Blender 2.82 Alpha just got UDIM Texture support, and it’s a pretty big deal. Sometimes you need really, really high resolution details in one area but don’t need them...