How To Get That Modern 3D Look in Blender (it's easier than you think) 

honestly this "modern 3d"look ,looks like a updated version of the silver and shine look that dominated the 2003-2007 era of computer hardware advertising,but looks better in motion as that was one of the technological barriers of the time.still dig the look

Thanks! I've been trying to replicate this lighting for a long time, but I usually end up with an early 2000s / frutiger aero look

this type of design really looks so calm and elegant at the same time

Dear Nathan Duck, could you make more of these and keep us updated about the developments of this style. It is really great !

One way to increase the shadows without messing with world light, is just changing the intensity on the color ramp on your light. Testing this now!

Great tutorial, I think a great addition might be to have the shadow of the cubes look semi-transparent since that would probably cast some kind of cool distorted-looking refraction

The weird issues with the lighting in the cubes might come from the cubes intersecting. And one way you could fix that "perfectly" would be to make the cubes in to rigid bodies, let them fall and settle however they do and then render that result. The rigid body simulation would ensure that the cubes don't intersect, but it would also let the cubes form an imperfect array. two birds with one stone.

Hi! thank you so much for this beautiful video, it's mostly thanks to you that I started my design career, I also recently started doing Blender tutorials on RU-vid, well what can I say, thank you for the great inspiration you gave me!

This is exactly what I was looking for, infact I thought it had something to do with render engines and colorspaces, So I started researching about them. Thanks for the video.

Very. Nicely. Done! I'll be coming back to this a LOT.

Can you start displaying keyboard strokes on top of your videos? This would be a major help to beginners still learning how to maneuver around blender

literally what i was tryna do a few days ago and here you are saving the day again. Thanks!

Great tutorial! It’s a very good blend between analyzing art direction and the specific tools used to achieve the look!! Hope you can do more like this in the future

THANKSS A LOTT!!! You and your videos have helped me soo muchh in learning 3d modelling and blender. IDK if you'll see this but I'd really loveee to get in touch with you more as a studentt!! LOTS OF LOVES AND APPRECIATE IT MAN!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

I don’t know if I like that style. But did the scene cuz Ducky did it lol… learned new stuff about glass in blender so it was worth it.

I have learned so much from you! like in a single tutorial I am learning lots of techniques thank u soooo much!!

what an AMAZING tutorial!!! you explained everything so well. Thank you for putting in the time and sharing.

muito bom esse tutorial eu estou tentando recria usando octane blender e tive um resultado muito legal obrigado por nos ajudar com os ensinamentos sobre blender

Wow, learned so much from this video. Simple but insanely useful tricks. Thanks a lot.

Would be really great if we set a caustic in this scene. Really liked it.

I learned a lot from this tutorial. Thank you so much ☺

The shadow its so solid, its possible make them more realistic? like a refraction shadow

11:18 you've been rickrolled

awesome ! thx for sharing, i was looking for so long how to make this light!

please can your make video about Illustration Design in blender for motion graphics

Also, you could've increased the power of the lamp a little bit so that you didn't have to increase the strength of the emmision shader so much.

Thank you so much!! I learnt a lot with this tutorial! I was trying to look for this style on google like "modern 3d" or "moder 3d Microsoft themes" but I didn't find anything, how do you search for this kind of style to find inspiration?

16:45 You can copy material to another object by pressing CtrlL> L then Link Materials

This should be titled "How to make Cycles look like Octane or Redshift" for instance if you look at a lot of modern 3D work on Behance it's almost a given that they're not rendered with Cycles, the render quality isn't quite there yet.

Could you make more Geo nodes tutorials?

i love you bro ... thank you for sharing your knowledge in this videos !!

How did you get that Principled BDSF node with all the elements stacked up instead of in accordion menus? Is it just the Blender version you were using at the time?

this is gonna help me out so much

Pretty awesome and refreshing tutorial!

That was a very inspiring video! Thank you! ♥

Tons of life hacks! Thanks for your work!

really great tutorial, really like it.

can u show how to make shabow for the glass then it will look more cool btw i love your content

This is excellent, thank you!

Hey bro you make amazing stuff in blender, really impressed. I just started using blender (almost finished my first donut lol), and I just wanted to ask how did you get all that knowledge from? How did you learn how to do all these incredible stuff? You just watched youtube tutorials or what? I wish I'll have the knowledge you have about the software.

Really Enjoyed this one ❤❤

It was a great tutorial! Thanks

Thanks! I am most grateful!

Nice man. Great work.

thanks mr ducky

thanks a lot for the video

by the way, on the light settings if the spread is set to a higher number it will not work,

Could you share that pinterest board? looks like a curated and amazing inspiration source.

Niiiice!=) But could you provide the link on pinterest board where you show those references?

Nice thank you !!

Thank you Ducky. I gotta say it's kinda painful watching you not use the shortkeys for moving and scaling and all that lol

so how did all the boxes become glass at once??

its not becoming brighter now in blender 4.2 when i increase the value in base color

Great vid! Whats that shortcut you use to switch between different viewpoints?

My man!

Interesting thank you for sharing

thank you!

Made it and set as my wallpaper too :)

when adding the material to one of the boxes , how do you apply it to all the boxes once you have finish creating the material ? just happened too quick for me !

what would be a good animation for this?

Thank you!!

16:56 Glass material showing black in camera and also in render. I'm using blender 4.1.0. Totally frustrated. Everything looks fine in view mode but not in camera

Beautiful stuff!!!

I love your work 🥹🥹🥹

It is possibile to add soft looking materials like "microsoft style" (glass, ceramic, plaster, paper, plastic for example) to Realtime materials addon?

how do you make that glassmorphoism that has a translcunet glass and solid color under it?

My glass turns almost black, as yours is way brighter. Would you mind explaining how to fix this?

Love the tutorial. I'm wondering how you made the light ray wider at 14:24

even after doing the same thing my light either goes all dark or bright, not getting this effect please help

how did you add the material to all of the boxes?

beautiful 🤍

why is the glass with me get dark spots any one knows

What hashtag do you like to use to find this kind of abstract imgs?

and how did you get those realtime materials?

Lighting, coloring etc starts 12:05

What do you think of Blender Octane? If you use it, can you make a tutorial on it please?

❤🎉wow! Thank you!

It looks great! What render settings did you use? denoise, samples, etc? :D

damn, that's awesome

what graphics card do u have?

how would you animate this?

written tutorial: Spawn a cube Select all edges Ctrl + B Scroll a little Drag out Done, you got a fancy cube.

Nice

Using arrays when people drool over geo nodes is a proof that one actually knows blender.

I've tried to use this in a loop but the pattern stays still while the background moves. I've tried moving both the area light and the pattern in the shader but the pattern still stays still and so the loop jumps when it restarts. Any ideas how I could move pattern with the background?

Hix :( Does anyone know what keyword for this style ?

Demadiado lindo este man!!!!! ❤

What gpu are you running? Wondering if I need to upgrade from my 3070 to get these results

i hit a snag when trying to separate the rubik into loose parts, it won't for whatever reason. I selected the mesh in edit mode, hit P, selected loose parts aaaaaand nothing. hm.

Let’s go ahead…

🔥💙🔥

what is this style acthually called? microsoft style?

C4D

Hey I have a question!! Im a small blender based content creator and I just started my owen official discord server would you like to join? my goal is to help and learn together as a community and not competitively like people are doing nowadays, Are you interested in joining?

How To Get "That" Modern... why not "A Modern" ?

You made an offhand comment about 'you could do this in Geometry Nodes but you wanted to keep it simple.' That's just a reflection of the bad press Geonodes gets because they're misunderstood. As a self appointed representative of all ~ 3 dozen Geometry Node Practitioners globally, (maybe a few more) Index = 0 to 35; I take offense. Geometry nodes, like mathematics when not taught by those that fear mathematics like the social studies teacher forced to teach me 9th grade math only teaching me her fear, is easy, IF you break it down, think step by step, watch a ton of tutorials and have lots of time and high frustration tolerance. No skill in life worth having is easy. Nothing great created is fast and easy either, Ducky. Even the genetic anomalies that compete in the Olympics train their butt's off to get to that level. This is mostly tongue in cheek, so don't take it the wrong way, even though it's all true.

Thanks a lot!