Tutorials > Rendering and Shading

Chaos has published a detailed explanation of sub-surface scattering. Read it on their blog. 

Wes McDermott has released a new tutorial explaining how to create a custom snow material and apply it to a scanned mesh from Substance Sampler. Watch it on YouTube. 

Lee Griggs has published a new tutorial on how to use denoising with Arnold for Maya. Watch it on YouTube. 

Pixar has released a short tip on how to use a free plugin for Adobe Substance Painter can be used to speed up workflows between Painter and Renderman. The script allows the user to export materials from Painter into RenderMan's Preset Browser and then re-assign on to your models in either Maya, Houdini, Blender or Katana. Watch it on YouTube. 

The U-Render team has created a new series of beginner tutorials to help users get up and running with their renderer. Watch them on YouTube. 

CG Cookie has released a tutorial that demonstrates several techniques for improving the quality of glass real-time rendered with Blender's EEVEE. Watch it on YouTube. 

Unity Technologies has released several tutorials to help users understand the Universal Render Pipeline, plus some examples of how its features were used to create a downloadable demo game. Find out more on Unity's blog. 

Chaos Group has published a new written tutorial explaining how to make a translucent fabric for V-Ray. Read it on the V-Ray documentation site for Max and Maya. 

Quixel has released a new 3 part tutorial walking through the process of creating a UE4 scene with Megascans assets. (more...)