Blender Materials & Rendering Introduction: How to create stills and animations

Blender materials and rendering tutorial, introducing material allocation, shaders and nodes, rendering still images, setting the background, and rendering animations.

This video follows on from my episode “Blender Modeling Introduction”:
   • Blender Modeling Introduction: How to...  

The Blender Principled BSDF shader web page is here:
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/la...

Blender can be freely downloaded from: https://www.blender.org/

You can also obtain the free GIMP photo editor from: https://www.gimp.org/

And the free DaVinci Resolve video editor from: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...

Note that I have several DaVinci Resolve videos, most recently including this review of DaVinci Resolve 18:    • DaVinci Resolve 18: The Best Free Vid...  

In this video, I used the following Blender keyboard shortcuts:

Render -- F12

Maximize area -- Ctrl-spacebar

Toggle wireframe display -- Shift-z

Duplicate object -- Shift-d

After duplicating an object, press x, y or z to constrain movement to that axis.

View select -- press the key below Esc (which is the tilde on a US keyboard).

Insert keyframe in the timeline -- press i

To scroll a menu bar, press the mouse wheel (middle mouse button) and drag.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 The Basics
09:27 Multiple Objects
12:49 Booleans & Dice
17:02 Saving & Backgrounds
20:30 Materials & Nodes
30:12 Animation
34:00 Wrap

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