Have you ever wanted to be able to make your own materials from scratch or composite your renders so they stand out but were always overwhelmed by nodes? Well no problem! In this course we will learn every single node and ALL of their options. Not only will we learn what each node does but how to use it practically for materials or compositing.

What is covered in this course

In this course we will cover ALL shader nodes and ALL compositing nodes. If you are not familiar with nodes at all, no worries as we will cover everything from the beginning! This course is best done in order as each video builds on the last but if you want to learn a particular node for a project you are working on you can just search for a node as we go over one node per video and each node can be learned independently from other videos!

With every node that we learn, we will use it in a practical way to create a material or composition. So not only will you learn what the nodes do and their options, but HOW to use them.

All Shader Nodes

Once you know these, you will be able to create any procedural material that you want like metal, snow, lava, cloth, plastic, grass, dirt and MUCH MUCH more and be able to confidently use shader nodes. With every shader node we learn here, we will use it in a practical way to create an object with a material for our scene!

ALL Input Nodes: Ambient Occlusion Node – Attribute Node – Bevel Node – Camera Data Node – Fresnel Node – Geometry Node – Curves Info Node – Layer Weight Node – Light Path Node – Object Info Node – Particle Info Node – Point Info Node – RGB Node – Tangent Node – Texture Coordinate Node – UV Map Node – Value Node – Color Attribute Node – Volume Info Node – Wireframe Node

ALL Output Nodes: AOV Output Node – Material Output Node

ALL Shader Nodes: Add Shader Node – Anisotropic BSDF Node – Diffuse BSDF Node – Emission Node – Glass BSDF Node – Glossy BSDF Node – Hair BSDF Node – Holdout Node – Mix Shader Node – Principled BSDF Node – Principled Hair BSDF Node – Principled Volume Node – Refraction BSDF Node – Specular BSDF Node – Subsurface Scattering Node – Toon BSDF Node – Translucent BSDF Node – Transparent BSDF Node – Velvet BSDF Node – Volume Absorption BSDF Node – Volume Scatter Node

ALL Texture Nodes: Brick Texture Node – Checker Texture Node – Gradient Texture Node – IES Texture Node – Image Texture Node – Magic Texture Node – Musgrave Texture Node – Noise Texture Node – Point Density Node – Voronoi Texture Node – Wave Texture Node – White Nose Texture Node

ALL Color Nodes: Bright/Contrast Node – Gamma Node – Hue Saturation Value Node – Invert Node – Light Falloff Node – Mix Node – RGB Curves Node

ALL Vector Nodes: Bump Node – Displacement Node – Mapping Node – Normal Node – Normal Map Node – Vector Curves Node – Vector Displacement Node – Vector Rotate Node – Vector Transform Node

ALL Converter Nodes: Blackbody Node – Clamp Node – Color Ramp Node – Combine Color Node – Combine XYZ Node – Float Curve Node – Map Range Node – Math Node – RGB to BW Node – Separate Color Node – Separate XYZ Node – Shader to RGB Node – Vector Math Node – Wavelength Node

ALL Group Nodes: Make Group – Ungroup – Group Input Node – Group Output Node

ALL Compositing Nodes

Once you’ve learned compositing nodes, you will be able to composite your renders and make them stand out! From things such as adding glare, color correction, green screening to masking and much more, we will learn it ALL!