Rendering Jewelry in Blender Cycles | Part 1: Advanced Metal Materials and File Prep

This tutorial is the first part of a series on rendering jewelry in Blender Cycles. This one covers file preparation, some understanding of references and lighting prior to beginning the project as well as where to download a special dispersion glass material from artist extraordinaire Jocafa.
This tutorial will not cover the dispersion glass material, area lights or render settings. Those will be covered in the following tutorials so make sure you are subscribed for those.
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Final Project file available for download here: djtutorials.gumroad.com/l/eoqvkf

[@polygonmasterddd2229]

Thanks a lot for your tutorial! for sharing your experience! studying jewelry according to your lessons ...

[@paulnguyen3069]

Love the video. Good job.

[@xurde35]

Amazing material texture. You are a crack! Thank you!

[@STILLTHINKING656]

Cant wait for next

[@empatikokumalar8202]

great tutorial

[@allensamuel9966]

Thank you so much for making these tutorials

[@djtutorialscgi]

❤️

[@3DGraphicsFun]

Modeling and rendering jewelry is so fascinating! Your render shot at the beginning is beautiful. This is really a great tutorial. Big THANKS! :)

[@djtutorialscgi]

No worries! Thank you for the compliment!

[@3DGraphicsFun]

@@djtutorialscgi You are welcome! Great work my friend :)

[@igglybluff7019]

Thanks a lot!

[@jaedalzaber1201]

Amazing video

[@djtutorialscgi]

Glad you think so!

[@alexihunt101]

Really a great help thank you for the tutorials. I wonder how do you know hich nodes/steps are needed to create a close to accurate metal render? I come from just using Rhinos mostly default render settings.

[@djtutorialscgi]

I’m god it helped! There are a lot of documents and data showing what makes a good metallic shader so I just make mine according to what works for me.

[@Leukick]

You are the goat! 🔥 Buddy how do you get the diamonds to have those rainbow-y fire reflections?

[@djtutorialscgi]

Thanks! I have a video on that.

[@reuegabe9037]

Thanks for the video, can you tell me, where can i download "lightbox" hdr map?

[@djtutorialscgi]

There aren’t that many for free unfortunately but you can make your own. If you set up a scene as a light box then render out a 360* image (save as a 32 bit exr at 6K) you can basically create your own HDRI.

[@Gettutorials123]

Ultra realistic renders!

[@altar7885]

Hi, great video, thanks a lot. I'm using Rhino 7, which uses the Cycles renderer. Would the same procedure work in Rhino do you think?

[@djtutorialscgi]

It should except Rhino tends to be more straight angles etc since it is for engineering, correct? If so, I would try adding a Bevel normals node to the shader so that you can round off the sharp edges so it doesn’t look so mechanical

[@altar7885]

@@djtutorialscgi Rhino has improved on the angles problem. I should really learn Blender, but I find it very daunting. I'm not sure that could learn it on my own.

[@djtutorialscgi]

I have a TON of tutorials but also I recommend Grant Abbitt’s beginner series. It’s really good.

[@JRHainsworth]

The normal seems to give me flat shading.

[@djtutorialscgi]

Please connect via the discord for help

[@craftingkid]

I'm having the same issue, was this ever solved?

[@djtutorialscgi]

Are you using GPU or cpu for rendering?

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