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Making things look presentable or realistic is an important skill for many designers and engineers and they use a huge range of different skills and techniques to achieve the correct look.

In this unit of learning, you will develop skills in creating attractive illustrations and renderings using bot manual techniques and 2D and 3D computer work. 

simple scene

In this simple task, a simple scene has been created using 3D CAD. It has been saved in both IGES and STEP formats.

You will quickly discover that the 3D models have been simply assembled - not realistically at all! This is fine - it is only for illustrative work. This is a technique used by designers to cut down on production time.

You will learn about material and texture mapping, lighting, decalling and rendering a high quality output.

You are tasked with creating a pleasant illustration to this simple scene. If you are feeling confident you can add further models to the scene to increase realism.
Creating Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) is a huge industry all on its' own. In Graphic Communication you will learn some of the basics of this field.

Here I provide video tutorials and supplementary files so you can render CAD challenges, using Blender 2.8 or above. 

Blender is completely free software, which is incredibly powerful. 
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Orange Peeler Render
In this first rendering task, I provide a lighting rig and a supplementary model. This will help you with some of the very basics of Blender 2.8, and able to create some of the renders shown in the gallery. 

You will soon want to edit the strength and position of lights, and some of the camera properties. 

Remember to DOWNLOAD the files below!
Vee-Block Render

Vee-Block Tutorial Videos

Video #1 | Importing models to the scene
Video #2 | Lighting the scene with HDRI
Video #3 | Applying materials to the scene
Video #4 | Applying materials to the Vee-Block
Video #5 | Camera and render settings

Vee-Block Assets

Pillar Drill Model
Scene Textures
HDRI map 
Toy Rocket Render
Cup Render
Light Bulb Render
Introduction to Bump Mapping
Texture and bump map files for this tutorial.
Test Text goes here.

textures for scenes

Here are some useful textures to add to scenes you make. 
Brick | Colour Map
Brick | Bump Map
Concrete | Colour Map
Concrete | Bump Map
Pine | Colour Map
Pine | Bump Map
Rusty Metal | Colour Map
Rusty Metal | Bump Map