Blender 3D: Designing Objects

Chapter 8. Creating Organic Materials

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating an organic-looking shader with procedurals
• Creating a wasp-like chitin material with procedural textures
• Creating a beetle-like chitin material with procedural textures
• Creating tree shaders – the bark
• Creating tree shaders – the leaves
• Creating a layered human skin material in Cycles
• Creating fur and hair
• Creating a gray alien skin with procedurals

Introduction

Following on from the natural materials we have seen in Chapter 3, Creating Natural Materials in Cycles, and in Chapter 5, Creating Complex Natural Materials in Cycles, it's now time to take a look at organic shaders.

Once again, while building the materials, we tried to use only the Cycles procedural ...