Refining Metal Textures & Studio Lighting in Blender Tutorial

Refining Metal Textures & Studio Lighting in Blender TutorialRefining Metal Textures & Studio Lighting in Blender Tutorial

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Zak Smith

pro

• Feb 20

If you're ever feeling stuck for creativity, I suggest looking back at your old work to see what you'd improve. It’s a great way to measure progress without the pressure of starting from scratch.

I recently opened up my project archives to do exactly this. What started as a simple modeling exercise evolved into a full lighting and material study. I used this session to refine the metal textures and dial in the studio lighting, all within Blender.

3D Rendering 3D Design Blender 3D Modeling

Stephanie Asoegwu

pro

• Feb 20

Revisiting old work with fresh eyes is such an underrated creative exercise. The Technics turntable render has beautiful material quality and the lighting on the chrome is spot on. Going back to upgrade old projects is genuinely one of the best ways to see how far you have come.

Andrii Svatyk

• Feb 20

perfect

Oluwatoyin Atanda

pro

• Feb 20

This is a solid reminder... Looking at old work takes the pressure off and shows how far you've come.

Curated by Alex Ginsberg for Illustrator

JAVIER | DSpot

max

• Mar 12

Craft Remains! At our studio, we enjoy incorporating AI tools to improve our process, but we still have a strong love for the craft and the human aspect behind it. Here’s a reel of some illustration processes created by our team, DSpot, over the last year. Is there an illustration process you’d like to share? We’d love to see it and provide feedback and tips!

craft process

Desmond Dankwah

• Mar 13

Amazing process and reel!

Lucas Poelman

• Mar 12

Designers, we can finally move past building sections and layouts. Threejs is getting easier to make, and we can focus on becoming creative directors.

Using ThreeJS & AI & PeachWeb Builder. I made 3 visual remixes in 1 hour. Just focusing on the brand identity and creative direction. Does that sound like fun?

Web Design PeachWeb three.js aidesignflow website

rajesh chaudhary

• Mar 12

amazing work done 🔥.

Dan Silva

pro

• Mar 12

Over the past few years I've had the chance to build a series of interactive real-time experiences for major aerospace and defense clients, deployed at large-scale industry events including the Space Symposium.

Three projects, three very different briefs:

A lunar rover experience, an abstract real-time game built around cybersecurity themes, and a satellite model viewer. All optimized for real-time 3D.

All three required the same core skillset: taking highly technical subject matter, building it into something visually compelling and interactive in Unity, and shipping it to run reliably in a live event environment in front of thousands of people.

That's the work I love doing. If you're building something interactive for a launch, a convention, a brand activation, or an enterprise experience, let's talk.