Cycles, the upcoming Blender default renderer, already gives jaw-dropping results! Learn how to light, texture and apply materials in this new BlenderDiplom.com tutorial!

Learn how to set up a more complex material in Cycles from the ground up.

Learn how to set up complex organic materials in Luxrender and find out how the camera works and how to re-light your scene while it is rendering.

This 3DS Max video tutorial explains how to create a glass material through Arch&Design and Raytrace materials.

Want to have a Day/Night terminator effect on an Earth sphere and use lighting to control the materials? Learn how to create a Falloff material in 3dS Max for a realistic Day/Night Earth globe. Learn how to composite this effect in After Effects and how to build the scene.

Learn how to model the basic geometry using simple poly-modelling including all of the essential parts which are crucial for achieving this effect. But what eye tutorial would be complete without some rigging to give that all important movement and animation...

Here is a simple video tutorial that I made on making frosted glass (sandblasted glass) with V-Ray and Autodesk 3ds Max.

A tutorial that explains in a very simple manner how to create a wet material shader with 3ds max and vray. Model and textures are included.

This tutorial teaches you how materials work, and how to create materials in Maya.

In this tutorial we will learn about creating double sided materials using sampler info utility