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Brushed Metal Material

Brushed Metal is a metallic surface that's covered in small directional scratches that causes the metal's reflection to be anisotropic.

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Chrome Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a chrome material in a number of different ways for 3dstudio max, although the theory will work for any renderer.

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Complex Organic Materials Using Falloff

Here's a tutorial discussing two materials, both using falloff, and how I made them.

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Complex Shaders Using Procedurals, The Green Tongue

Complex Shaders Using Procedurals, The Green Tongue

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Flat Metallic Surfaces

Ever notice how a metal shader can look great on a curved surface such as a sphere, but that same shader looks bad on a flat surface like a cube? What's up with that? (the example below uses the default Metal Chrome material that ships with 3DStudio MAX)

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Glass Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a glass material. For my example, I'll use the Brazil renderer inside 3dsmax, although there are equivalents in any renderer that allows raytracing.

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Glazed Pottery Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a glazed pottery type material. For my example, I'll use the Brazil renderer inside 3dsmax, although there are equivalents in any renderer that allows raytracing.

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Microscope Materials

Tutorial on how you may wish to go about making your own electron microscope material.

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Rubber Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a rubber material. My tests were done in 3dsmax, but the theory of how to put the material together works for all 3d apps.

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Satin Material

This is a quick tutorial discussing a satin shader I made in brazil, and some of the thought behind making it.

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Sparkling Snow Material

Ever notice how snow in soft light tends to sparkle? This tutorial tries to explain it.

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Wet Looking Materials

This tuorial explains on making a wet looking material and some need to know physics behind it.

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Xray Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create an xray material. My tests were done in 3dsmax, but the theory of how to put the material together works for all 3d apps.

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Water, Fire and Smoke Effects Using Particles and Opacity Maps

This is by no means a new technique, in fact, I saw it being demoed at the Kinetix booth at Siggraph, but people have asked several times how I create my smoke and water effects. So here's a quick tutorial discussing the concepts, and a max file you can download that has all three examples.

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Creating a Toon Shader

Maing a toon shader. To make your images look like from a cartoon.

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Anisotropic Highlights

Before reading this tutorial, please read my Anisotropic Reflections tutorial, which discusses the theory of what makes an anisotropic reflection.

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Anisotropic Reflections

We've all heard the word, but may not have a solid understanding of what they are in the real world, how they get produced, and what our options are in 3d to replicate them. This tutorial is meant to hopefully answer some of those questions.

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Creating Realistic Water with Wakes

Making nice water material whit wakes.

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Metals And Reflections

Metals And Reflections By Neil Blevins, also available in Italian. Highly recommended - Laxman.

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Translucency and Sub-Surface Scattering

Translucency and Sub-Surface Scattering By Neil Blevins .

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