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Hello there and welcome to the procedural shading training in Blender.

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My name is Simon Thommes and I'm an artist at the blender animation studio.

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If you've heard of me before then probably because of some

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of the crazy procedural shading experiments that I like to do.

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Procedurally generated contents like assets,

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animations and shaders are some of those things that seem like magic if you don't

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really have a grasp of what goes into it and sometimes even if you do.

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It takes a variety of technical understanding, problem solving,

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creativity and a good familiarity with your tools to achieve what you have in mind.

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But if you know what you are doing a procedural workflow

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is an invaluable addition to your skill set as an artist.

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In this course we're going to start from what may be your first steps in the

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shader editor all the way to an advanced

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understanding of procedural shade of creation in Blender.

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This is not a course to get you started quickly creating simple shaders.

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It's rather an in-depth guide to

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help you understand the fundamental concepts and techniques

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and enables you to come up with your own ideas.

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That means that there will be a few rather technical parts in the

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beginning but it also means that you will have more freedom to create.

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The course is supported with a lot of examples and interactive visualizations to

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make it more illustrated. And to give you something to immediately play around with,

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it also comes with a full example scene that

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uses nothing but procedural shaders and only basic modeling.

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By the time this video goes online,

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the course is still in production and it will be released

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as I produce it chapter by chapter. That gives me the

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opportunity to respond to feedback and adapt to suggestions so please

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feel free to engage in a discussion in the comment section.

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This first chapter is an introduction to give you an

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idea of what the course is going to be about

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and to get you started in the shader editor in Blender.

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Okay, so I hope this is going to be interesting and exciting. Let's get started.