Brushed Metal

June 19, 2015

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a model of a house that I’m intending to upload to SecondLife. While most people don’t put kitchens in their SecondLife houses, I feel it brings it a little more realism. In my kitchen, I’m creating stainless steel appliances, for which I needed to create […]

Almost Photo-Realistic African-American Skin

January 25, 2015

Almost a year ago, I posted a video on YouTube about how to create a nearly photo-realistic skin material for Blender’s Cycles renderer. User TheWickfield asked, in a comment on that video, to explain how to change the skin tone to a darker color, like Latino or African-American. It’s taken a few days, but I […]