Rendering Photorealistic 3D Scenes in Blender
Blender and 3D Modeling 2
A course by James Tralie , Producer and Animator
About the video: Blender and 3D Modeling 2
Overview
“Let's continue exploring Blender and the essential tools it has to offer! I will show you how to create a simple texture with the shader editor. Then, I will teach you how to add lighting to the scene and import HDRIs for full environmental lighting. Finally, I will add a camera and manipulate its view and properties. ”
In this video lesson James Tralie addresses the topic: Blender and 3D Modeling 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Rendering Photorealistic 3D Scenes in Blender. Learn to create engaging 3D environments using creative lighting, modeling, and texturing techniques that turn your observations into eye-catching imaginary worlds.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Blender and 3D Modeling I want to show you how to quickly add in a texture to this. I pulled up this bottom menu so that we can see our shading layout, which is this Shader Editor. By hitting that dropdown, you can switch between modes. I'll be using the Shader Editor. Click on the object to add texture. Here, let's add a simple texture to this cube. I'll click on that. We can now add in a new texture and give it a name. I'll call this Test Texture. It's important to keep good naming for the textures as you go along. You will see when we added that in, we were given two nodes here. This i...”
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Course summary for: Rendering Photorealistic 3D Scenes in Blender
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Category
3D & Animation, Architecture & Spaces -
Software
Blender -
Areas
3D, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, ArchVIZ, Digital Architecture

James Tralie
A course by James Tralie
James Tralie is a producer and animator at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who specializes in creating animations and visualizations that explain complex scientific topics in engaging ways. He has always had an interest in film and animation, and first started creating videos with his flip video camera and LEGO sets in middle school. James went on to study geosciences at Princeton while working on documentary productions as well as for commercial clients. After graduating, he began his career at NASA.
Alongside his work on planetary science missions, James creates commercials, album cover artwork, concert visuals, and more for clients in the film, TV, music, and advertising industries. His clients include Nissan, Facebook, NVIDIA, Apple, Zara, and Marriott. He also shares his expertise with 145K followers on Instagram.
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