Late in 2011, The DAVE School's Executive Director, Steve Warner, gave his signature Lighting and Rendering lecture to the students at the school. Now DAVE School offers whole two 5 hour lecture to see for all visitors and 3D modelling fans. They started to post the entire series in hour-long instalments. Today they are posting the first segment which examines the material properties found in most 3D programs and explains how to translate the characteristics you see in the real world into recognizable surfaces in the 3D world. Mr Warner covers the basics of 3D material properties and how to translate what you see in the real world in to parameters you can use in your 3D software.

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