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5 Texturing Tips for Technical Artists

Bart ·

Greg Zaal shares some solid texturing tips on Blender Cookie

While I’d love to call myself an artist, the truth is that I’m more of a technical user than a creative one. I cringe every time I have to go into texture paint mode to paint by hand, but if I can create the desired effect in the node editor with a couple of gradients and baked maps, that’s what I’ll do!I don’t think I’m alone here either; Blender and CG in general is a rather complicated field with a steep learning curve where you couldn’t get very far if you weren’t at least a bit of a nerd.

So if you’re curious about how to be a shading artist without really being a master of the fine arts, here are a couple of tips for techies to make your life easier.

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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.
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