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 Ctrlspacebar

Toggle wireframe display Shiftz

Duplicate object Shiftd

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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