An excellent guide to Blender nodes

Saw this on BlenderNation today...

The complete beginners guide to Blender nodes, Eevee, Cycles and PBR












Wow. I like this. I like this a lot.


http://artisticrender.com/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-blender-nodes-eevee-cycles-and-pbr/

Blender Animation Nodes

There is so much great info on Blender Animation Nodes, but getting started with them can be a huge step. 

To get Animation Nodes:

https://animation-nodes.com/#download

Getting started guide:

https://animation-nodes-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/getting_started/interface.html

I needed a tutorial to apply some theory, so I gave this one a try:

https://youtu.be/xcjrD5SwQBw

And here is my result:

I'm very pleased and I look forward to making some interesting things to put up on the planetarium dome. 

Nodevember!

https://nodevember.io/

I might try some of these, since I want to step up my node-based procedural textures game!

From nodevember.io

I won't have time to do them all, but I'll try to some of them. I will of course be using Blender, but any procedural/node based software can be used.

Blender procedurally generated circuit board...

I saw this today on BlenderNation.

A very easy to follow demonstration of setting up nodes in Blender 2.8 to create a circuit board texture from Leroy Xie.

Direct link: https://youtu.be/9iO-7RbDSw8

https://youtu.be/9iO-7RbDSw8