Dreidel toy: Texturing, part 1

This tutorial walks through the process of setting up the base wood texture for the toy. It shows how to create a rough, somewhat glossy appearance using the fresnel interpolator, the Smoothness and Index of Refractions channels to control the appearance.
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UV Maps and Physical Size, Part 2

This tutorial shows how to create a UV map that conforms to the size of existing Illustrator art whose physical size needs to be maintained. UV space is an abstractly measured system, and this tutorial shows how to create UV template which relates to the physical size of Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop artwork.
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Specularity on Metals, primary and secondary smoothness

This texturing tutorial shows how to use the Primary Mix Ratio to use two specular components on metallic surfaces. This allows materials with no diffuse component to interact with direct light sources.
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Air Freshener Display, Part 5: Final Setup and Rendering

>This is the final tutorial in the ‘Air Freshener’ display packaging tutorial series. It sets up the final scene, including the posing of the riser and packets, lighting set up and camera setup.
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