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Stylized Rendering with Brushstrokes
Geometry Nodes from Scratch
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Procedural Shading: Fundamentals and Beyond
Introduction
  1. 01

    Introduction

    Free
  2. 02

    Definition

  3. 03

    Content Overview

  4. 04

    The Shader Editor

1: Fundamentals
  1. 01

    Colors, Values & Vectors

  2. 02

    Vectors and Pixels

  3. 03

    Coordinate Types

  4. 04

    Value Control

2: Procedural Textures
  1. 01

    Noise Textures

  2. 02

    Shape Control

  3. 03

    Repetition

  4. 04

    Texture Composition

  5. 05

    Space Manipulation

3: Shading Principles
  1. 01

    PBR

  2. 02

    Geometric Dependency - Context Sensitivity

  3. 03

    Generating PBR Maps

4: Shader Composition
  1. 01

    Blending & Masking

  2. 02

    Randomization

  3. 03

    Semi-Procedural Workflow

  4. 04

    Volumetric Shaders

5: Modular Setup
  1. 01

    Parametrization

  2. 02

    Nodegroups

6: Automation
  1. 01

    Drivers

  2. 02

    Animation

Workflow Examples
  1. 01

    Walls (Chapter 2+)

  2. 02

    Wood (Chapter 3+)

  3. 03

    Dynamic Walls (Chapter 4+)

  4. 04

    Wooden Boards (Chapter 5+)

  5. 05

    Fire (Chapter 6+)

  6. 06

    Rainy Window (Chapter 6+)

Files & Tools
  1. Example Scene
  2. Example Scene - Simplified Free
  3. Visualization (Chapter 1-4): Value Graph
  4. Visualization (Chapter 2-5): Space Origami
  5. Example Shader (Chapter 3-1): Rock
  6. Example Shader (Chapter 4-1): Dilapidated Cube Scene
  7. Example Shader (Chapter 4-3): Image Texture De-Tiling
  8. Example Shader (Chapter 4-3): Semi-Procedural Fishbones Boards
  9. Example Shader (Chapter 4-4): Procedural Volumetric Clouds
Simon Thommes
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18 comments
RemzArt
RemzArt
April 2nd, 2024

Let's do this

Aaron Belchamber
Aaron Belchamber
Sept. 10th, 2022

This is a brilliant course, you will learn A LOT!  Mr. Thommes, you are quite the Blender master thank you for all the work and information, it will take quite a while to digest!

Robert Archer
Robert Archer
Aug. 1st, 2021

Looking forward to this! :)

VJ Galaxy
VJ Galaxy
May 29th, 2021

Blender Cloud should follow this kind of structure for all courses.

Mikhail Gavrilec
Mikhail Gavrilec
May 14th, 2021

It would be great if ray marching topic would be covered.

Apollo Bukowski
Apollo Bukowski
Feb. 14th, 2021

I’m stoked to begin the journey! I’ve dabbled in blender, but now I’m wanting to take my learning seriously. Let’s do this guys!

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Jan. 18th, 2021

I am so excited that I have found this course. Thanks a lot for doing it. Can't wait to dive in deep into the topic :)

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theartguymail
theartguymail
Jan. 16th, 2021

Hi Simon. What's your opinion on procedural shaders vs image textures?

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes
Jan. 25th, 2021

@theartguymail They both have their place. I like the freedom and flexibility of procedural textures but for fast results and manual control image textures are extremely useful. A good workflow usually combines the two methods in my opinion. But it really depends on the artstyle as well, as they have different strangths.

wyatt wilcox
wyatt wilcox
Dec. 31st, 2020

thank you

Michael
Michael
Dec. 20th, 2020

looks awesome, definitely gonna learn from this, i was thin king if its in the works to get tutorials on lighting, rendering and rendering, thanks

Luis Saybe
Luis Saybe
Dec. 9th, 2020

Thanks for doing this course, I recently subscribed to blender cloud and noticed a lot of the older courses are not as organized at this course and the recent courses, so I'm really hoping to see more courses take on this format rather than paying for courses on other platforms

Shikher Pandey
Shikher Pandey
Aug. 22nd, 2020

Thank you for this course!

MartinKlekner
MartinKlekner
Aug. 12th, 2020

Finally have time to dig into your course, Simon, can't wait!

Shrey Shukla
Shrey Shukla
Aug. 10th, 2020

thanks for making this. waited for this since nodevember

Cédric Born
Cédric Born
Aug. 7th, 2020

Sound great. Thanks

stan su
stan su
Aug. 3rd, 2020

thanks for your works!

Jenae Renee Jordan
Jenae Renee Jordan
July 31st, 2020

Thank you so very much for providing this course, Mr. Thommes.

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