How to create an amber material in Blender

Create an amber material in Blender
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I’m sure we’ve all seen amber fossils, famous for preserving ancient plants, insects and more just as much as their own gorgeous orange tint. It’s absolutely possible for us to create a digital reconstruction of amber too, taking no more than five minutes in Blender with this swift workflow. (Read our more detailed Blender tutorials to create complex projects.)

Before we get going, make sure the Blender render engine is set to Cycles. After that we can create a new sphere and modify the shape a little to look like an amber gem, before creating a new material to apply to the model. Give your new material a recognisable name such as ‘Amber material’, which can be useful for keeping your own material library well managed. As always for materials, enable the Use Node option on the Shader panel, and we’re good to get going with the material set-up.

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Pietro Chiovaro
3D Artist

Pietro is a freelance 3D artist and YouTuber with more than 10 years of experience in different fields of 3D production, from animated movies to VFX and game production. He shares many of his creations on his YouTube channel @PietroChiovaro.

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