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Texturing and material study are super important in 3D work. Without real-world, accurate, detailed textures, even the most beautifully lit 3D model or scene feels completely fake and flat. The difference between amateur hour and a professional render probably comes down to textures and lighting more than anything else.
We’re releasing a new series of training guides, and this next installment is our Material Guide, which covers texture mapping, surface properties, look development, and realistic material creation. It’s basically a free book going over best practices and concepts to get you going. Best of all? It’s completely free.
The mastermind behind this guide is Roland, a Senior Visual Effects Artist with over 15 years of elite, hands-on industry experience. You can learn more about him at www.lfodesign.com. Roland is also the creator of our best-selling Ultimate Procedural Material Pack for Redshift!
Roland has worked on movies like Star Wars, Avengers, Transformers, Interstellar, Iron Man, Thor, Aquaman and many more. When it comes to understanding how light tells a story, shapes an environment, and creates professional visual impact, he is the BOSS!
This guide is all Roland’s writing and experience, but the visuals and layout were all created with AI, so if that bothers you, this is your warning!
The guide is over 200 pages long, and it goes over 200 common objects that you will probably need to texture at some point in your career. Find the object or type of texture, and you can learn everything about it. You will learn the properties, light response, IOR, roughness amount, transparency, specular, bump, shader controls, common problems, suggested values, and recommended lighting. It’s a very deep study of each object and you will learn a ton!
There are too many to list, but the guide includes all types of metals, food items, minerals, stones, ceramics, fabrics, polymer materials, hair, special effects, organic materials, and many more!
Whether you are working in Cinema 4D, Blender, Redshift, Octane, or Unreal Engine, this guide strips away the software-specific button-pushing and teaches you the foundational, physically based principles of materials and look development. Download the guide and get going!
To download this free guide, simply join our newsletter and you will get an e-mail back with download instructions. If you’re already part of the newsletter you can find previous e-mails from me which will all have download instructions.
You will receive this free guide but you’ll also get our 500+ other 3D freebies as well!
If you like this, Roland also created some EPIC packs with us! Check out our best-selling pack of all time, and undoubtedly one that has the most bang for your buck. The Ultimate Procedural Material Library for Redshift has 2,000+ premium RS materials, 100 C4D Particle animation scenes, 100+ C4D Pyro Prebuilt scenes, and 145 RS Tools with even more coming soon! The amount of value in this pack is pretty nuts!
Joren Kandel is an Emmy Award winning artist with 15 years of experience in sports motion design. He is also Founder and CEO of The Pixel Lab, which has become the biggest collection of 3D VFX and VDB assets in the world!
