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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
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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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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
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Car Key, Part 4: Lighting and Rendering

Christopher Tyler Jul, 25th 2016 0 Comments
This tutorial walks through the process of using HDR Light Studio to light and render the car key object. It walks through the use of the ‘Illumination’, ‘Reflection’ and ‘Visible Rim’ buttons to produce predictable lighting.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
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How to vary reflection smoothness according to incidence angle

Christopher Tyler May, 21st 2016 0 Comments
In this material and rendering tutorial the ability to vary the degree of surface roughness according to view angle is explored. This is a powerful technique that simulates real world material properties which can be useful for architectural and product/package design.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
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Nut Bar Project, Part 4: Creating the nut bar label material with a clear plastic region

Christopher Tyler Apr, 1st 2016 0 Comments
This tutorial shows how to use the Mask function to control the interaction between stacked materials. In this particular case it shows how to create a product label with a clear plastic region.
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