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Material Fundamentals: Procedural Textures in Blender 4
939 students
Material Fundamentals: Procedural Textures in Blender 4
Build a strong foundation in material creation using procedural methods
Created byCanopy Games, Erindale Woodford, Michael Bridges
Last updated 3/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Navigate the Shader Editor and speed up workflows with essential shortcuts
- Build procedural materials from scratch using Blender’s math and texture nodes
- Set up and manipulate PBR and custom shaders for greater material control
- Bake textures for reuse outside of Blender and optimise for different render engines
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Course content
3 sections • 50 lectures • 7h 41m total length
Requirements
- No prior shader experience required—ideal for beginners
- Blender 4.4 installed and ready to go
- Basic understanding of Blender’s interface is helpful but not essential
- All assets are provided—just bring curiosity and creativity
Description
Introduction to Procedural Textures
This course has been fully remastered for Blender 4.4, bringing it up to date with the latest features and workflows. The updated version is available now and free for all existing students.
The materials we use in a scene – how they react to light and how they interact with one another – play a crucial role in storytelling. However, stepping into node-based procedural workflows for the first time can be daunting.
In this course, written by Erin Woodford and presented by Mike Bridges, you’ll be guided from the basics of navigating the Shader Editor through to building a fully procedural shader from scratch, including the maths involved. The course is project-based to ensure skills are applied immediately, and you’ll receive extra challenges along the way to reinforce what you’ve learned. All necessary assets are included so you can focus entirely on the content.
You will learn how to:
Navigate the Shader Editor
Use shortcuts to speed up your workflow
Understand how texture coordinates and values are processed in shaders
Set up an image-based PBR texture
Create procedural surface imperfections
Build custom glass shaders for added flexibility
Manipulate built-in procedural textures like Voronoi and Noise
Create textures from scratch using maths
Bake textures to images for use outside Blender
By the end of the course, you’ll have the foundational skills to explore your own ideas and create custom materials suited to your projects.
About the instructors:
Mike Bridges has been teaching Blender professionally since 2014 and has helped tens of thousands of students become confident in 3D. As co-founder of Canopy Games, he delivers in-depth Blender courses covering topics such as low-poly modelling, geometry nodes, and the grease pencil. He also shares practical Blender tutorials on YouTube.
Erin Woodford has over 12 years of Blender experience and began working professionally as a 3D artist and educator while completing their degree. Their work spans stylised TV, photoreal product rendering, and architectural visualisation, with a core focus on procedural workflows and education within Blender.
Join our community
For course help, support, and to share your work, be sure to join our Facebook group and Discord server.
Who this course is for:
- Blender users ready to dive into the world of procedural materials
- Beginners intimidated by node-based shading systems
- Artists who want more control over how their materials behave and look
- Anyone looking to level up their material creation skills through hands-on projects