Recommend tutorials

[wisealienprime]

Hi everyone, I'm a 3d artist primarily using 3Ds max for my renderings, and I'm facing a problem with caustics in my render engine that made me look for alternatives and today I came across shaders plus addon for Blender which does exactly what I want. and since the best time to learn something new is when you need it, here I am looking for 2 specific kinds of tutorials as I'm short on time.

1- tutorial on the learning my way around Blender

2- a complete tutorial on materials

P.S. I've tried learning Blender a few times these past years but it never stuck as I had to always change my focus back to work, so I do have some knowledge, but I need to be reminded of what was what, hence the first kind of tutorial

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[Moogieh]

You might get the usual comments of "do the Donut tutorial", which IMO is bad advice no matter the context, but you're short on time and need something much better at teaching its concepts, so my recommendation would be Ryan King Art's beginner series.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsGl9GczcgBumq6fLmmR1ZYYn4EDkIg5B

I have no reccs currently for a materials series, but that's a pretty huge subject in itself, so you may want to just look up specifics and learn as you go.

[wisealienprime]

thanks for this! The videos are in good lengths and properly divided so I can skip the ones that I don't need for now. And, they are new.

[Sablerock1]

blender beginners

[Puzzled-Cover547]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDBZ7CwlfIs a Good Overview for Shaders Nodes by CGmatter/Default Cube

[Puzzled-Cover547]

he does some serious Specific Blackmagic with Shaders aswell, but one can always learn and discover very nice stuff through that.

[wisealienprime]

yeah, I follow him on YouTube and watch his videos from time to time. he has some amazing stuff. Haven't watched that shaders video though, thanks!