Shading & Materials projects for Blender: 13 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
13 free project files
This is a free hour-long Space VFX course for Blender by Poly3Blend, rendered in EEVEE with procedural shaders. It covers procedural nebula backgrounds baked to an HDRI, procedural stars, cinematic comets, an asteroid…
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This free Blender project file from Poly3Blend accompanies a tutorial on building a procedural animated star, or sun, rendered in EEVEE.
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These free Blender project files from Vertex Horizons accompany a tutorial on building a stylized procedural material without any external textures.
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This free Blender 4.3 project file from Poly3Blend is the scene behind a ten-minute tutorial on creating a space nebula in EEVEE.
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This Blender shader file comes from Charley 3D's French-language tutorial on creating a realistic metal texture in Blender, published through the CGPoly blog.
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This free Blender file from Лев Федоров accompanies a Russian-language tutorial on building an old, painted metal material entirely with procedural shader nodes.
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This free Blender 3.3.1 file comes from Yuki's blender school, a Japanese channel, and belongs to its 'Yuki drill' series of exercises for absolute beginners.
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Yuki's blender school shares this free Blender 3.3 file from 'Yuki drill No.2', a Japanese beginner tutorial on modeling a strawberry cake.
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KiryToonShader Ver2 is a free anime-style toon shader for Blender, created by Ryuma Channel and distributed as a material node group inside a .blend file rather than as a full scene.
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This Blender file accompanies a Spanish-language tutorial by GDT Solutions ES (GameDevTraum) on combining two textures in Blender using nodes.
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This Blender class file comes from Wellington Coloni's Portuguese-language tutorial on downloading and using HDRI images in Blender 3D.
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ChuckCG shares this Blender scene from his YouTube video on hard surface modeling a sci-fi control panel, which covers modeling, shading and texturing the panel.
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This free Blender project file from MeiU, the first in the creator's 'Blender Project File' series, is an abstract scene for Blender 3.4 and newer.
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