Rendering a Guitar in Blender with Cycles

Bart · May 31, 2012

Learn how to render a guitar scene with this Blender Cookie tutorial by Kent Trammell.

Kent writes:

This tutorial will walk you through all of the steps needed for the lighting, shading and rendering of this guitar in Cycles. You will how to create a soft, satin cloth material, how to create layered shaders for the guitar body and other various techniques needed to give you the final render result.

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Rendering a Guitar in Blender with Cycles

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

12 responses

Phobiss

31 May 2012 at 18:16

Nice guitar and render!

chromemonkey

31 May 2012 at 18:54

Is that a photo or is it the finished render?

Jonathan Williamson
31 May 2012 at 20:18
Finished render :)
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1. Jony
  1 June 2012 at 03:40
  Yes and no…
  Textures = photo.
  I dont like this tutoriel, very basic.
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Dewald

31 May 2012 at 20:15

Beautiful render!

David Sousa

31 May 2012 at 21:00

Pardon me but, how did you do that background?
The guitar is very nice, but the brackground… it is wonderfull :|
Looks like black velvet!

blenderholic
31 May 2012 at 21:54
Im just guessing but sculpting and cloth simulation.
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Kent Trammell
31 May 2012 at 23:36
@767742a5b6a0a3512352c3fa307d3bf9:disqus hit it – it’s just a cloth sim. I think this same question was asked on the video page on Blender Cookie…I answered it more thoroughly there. =)
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