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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Creating a thin label for the outside of of a clear plastic bottle

Christopher Tyler Jun, 17th 2017 0 Comments
This tutorial creates a thin label that applies to the outside of a liquid bottle. It shows how to generate the label geometry using the bottle component as a starting point. It then walks through the process of using a boolean operation to ‘slice’ the label into the correct shape.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Toothpaste packaging with metallic label elements

Christopher Tyler Feb, 10th 2017 1 Comment
This tutorial shows how to not only create a label with metallic components, but to understand what makes the metallic parts metallic. It discusses reflections on metallic surfaces vs reflections on glossy diffuse surfaces.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Properly setting up a glossy material

Christopher Tyler Jan, 6th 2017 1 Comment
This tutorial walks through the process of setting up a glossy material. It shows the basic and proper steps to setting up a material with a diffuse and a glossy component so the material uses the fresnel interpolator and is properly energy balanced. It also explores the Smoothness channel as it relates to the Fresnel interpolator.
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