Blender Octane Plugin Tutorial - For Illustration and Concept art

In this full Blender Octane plugin advanced tutorial, I will show you the node systems I use to create amazing looking illustrations and environments.

Tutorial suitable for beginners and experienced users.

Trailer video presentation included in the preview above.

This tutorial is directed at concept artists and illustrators who would like to learn Blender Octane plugin. This one will focus on landscapes and environments concepts. Part of it is Jama Jurabaev's workflow adapted to octane nodes.

I cover a large range of usefull techniques that I use in my work. All of the materials were created on a simple unsubdivided plane.

Creating complex shaders by mixing multiple materials and texture masks:

Four different types of Fogs :

Options on lights:

Bring everything together :

BONUS CHAPTER (Update 11/29/2022):

Learn how to access & use the Octane Live Db material Library, save your own shaders in your Local Db, import ORBX materials :

BONUS CHAPTER (Update 07/11/2023):

Learn how to scatter tons of assets with octane's scatter on surface node.

Included in this tutorial

• 3h of Blender Octane Plugin narrated videos (16 Chapters)
• Various Jpeg Renders
• Node system screenshot for every chapter
• a PSD file with render passes, and retakes
• 2 textures for FX

Topics Covered

• Basic settings
• Octane Custom node wrangler
• Importing megascans assets and surfaces from Quixel bridge
• Scaling shaders within the viewport
• Mixing two materials
• 3D Assets material integration with various ground materials
• Creating a Water mask
• Texture displacement
• Random texture with object scattering
• Octane camera imager settings
• Setting multiple cameras, length and aperture
• Background image integration in final render
• Four types of Fogs
• Images as planes for simple FX
• Light options : image projection, IES profiles & God rays
• Rendering passes
• Octane Postprocess
  

Config: Intel core 7-9700K, RTX 2080 Ti

If you want to see the kind of things you can create with blenderOctane, check out my Artstation

Blender Octane plugin Free Tier is a free software. You can download it here