How to Make Realistic Animated Water in Blender | Eevee & Cycles Tutorial

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Welcome to another Blender tutorial! In today’s video, we’ll be creating realistic, animated water that looks great in both Eevee and Cycles render engines. Follow along as we cover everything from setting up your scene to animating the water surface for a dynamic look.

In This Tutorial:
1. Enabling the Node Wrangler Add-On – A must for efficient node management.
2. Setting Up the Scene – Adding and scaling a plane, and configuring render settings.
3. Creating the Water Shader – Step-by-step process to create a realistic water material using Bump Nodes, Color Ramps, and Noise Textures.
4. Animating the Water Surface – Learn how to make your water surface animate smoothly with a simple rotation formula.

Steps Covered:
- Enable Node Wrangler in Edit - Preferences.
- Scale and apply the plane for the water surface.
- Set render engine to Eevee and configure HDRI lighting.
- Create and tweak the water shader in the Shader Editor.
- Add animation for a looping water effect.

By the end of this video, you’ll have a stunning animated water surface ready to enhance your Blender projects!

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Links:
-Download Blender : (https://www.blender.org/download/)
- HDRI Textures : (https://hdrihaven.com/)

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