本视频教程是由CGCookie机构出品的Blender卡通煎饼流浪汉制作视频教程，BlenderCookie Shading the Pancake Hobo，大小：2.91 GB，MP4高清视频格式，附工程源文件，教程使用软件：Blender 2.69，作者：Kent Trammell，共13个章节，语言：英语。

Blender是一个开源的多平台轻量级全能三维动画制作软件，提供从建模，动画，材质，渲染，到音频处理，视频剪辑的一系列动画短片制作解决方案。blender以python为内建脚本，支持yafaray渲染器，同时还内建游戏引擎。动画工具，包括了反向动作组件，可设定骨骼，结构变形，关键影格，时间线，非线性视频编辑，顶点量重及柔化动量组件，包括网孔碰撞侦察和一个具有侦察碰察的粒子系统，固体碰撞、布料、液体、力场解算。

BlenderCookie Shading the Pancake Hobo

Make your Cycles materials more tangible and appealing!

In computer graphics, “Shading” is the process of developing surface qualities for 3D models. The way your model interacts with light is very important. It’s a key step in achieving realism, tangibility, believability, and appeal. If you ever have doubts about this, go watch the film “Rango”. The artists responsible for the visuals clearly spent a lot of time perfecting the thousands of material types throughout the movie. The tangible quality of each eyeball, rock, wood board, and glass bottle is nothing short of stunning. The materials are so believable that you can forget to notice them because your brain accepts them as authentic.

If you’re new to the concept of shading, the best place to start is to intentionally observe reality. Take note of your car’s reflections; the spotty specular quality of an asphalt road; or the frosted transparency of a condensating glass of water. Lucky for you and I, scientists have done the hard work of measuring reality’s phenomenon and programmers have mathematically implemented them into 3D software like Blender. Thanks to those rockstars we have the freedom to use their discoveries and tools to more efficiently create something beautiful.