Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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”:
youtube.com/watch?v=EsufneMOvWA
The Blender Principled BSDF shader web page is here:
docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/shader/principled.html
Blender can be freely downloaded from: blender.org
You can also obtain the free GIMP photo editor from: gimp.org
And the free DaVinci Resolve video editor from: blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Note that I have several DaVinci Resolve videos, most recently including this review of DaVinci Resolve 18: youtube.com/watch?v=XyzO2MTKwY0
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.
For additional ExplainingComputers videos and other content, you can become a channel member here:
youtube.com/channel/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNPrJU7jA/join
More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:
youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: youtube.com/@explainingthefuture
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
#Blender #Materials #Rendering #explainingcomputers
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”:
youtube.com/watch?v=EsufneMOvWA
The Blender Principled BSDF shader web page is here:
docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/shader/principled.html
Blender can be freely downloaded from: blender.org
You can also obtain the free GIMP photo editor from: gimp.org
And the free DaVinci Resolve video editor from: blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Note that I have several DaVinci Resolve videos, most recently including this review of DaVinci Resolve 18: youtube.com/watch?v=XyzO2MTKwY0
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.
For additional ExplainingComputers videos and other content, you can become a channel member here:
youtube.com/channel/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNPrJU7jA/join
More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:
youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: youtube.com/@explainingthefuture
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
#Blender #Materials #Rendering #explainingcomputers
