On a night of faraway dreams, a teapot pours out over the clouds beneath the stars’ charms, the soft clouds that accompany the sky.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
3D illustration, Eevee engine, Blender
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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
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Thank you so much, I really appreciate it
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Hey Anaël, It’s a nice piece of art !
I’m looking into stylized stuff myself and I hope you don’t mind me asking questions :
In a case like this, how you handle light and colors for something like the clouds ?
Do they have an unique material and it’s light and environment that makes the gradient in the distance ? Or you mix different material/colors to have full control over that gradient ?
Would you use stuff like volumetrics to make that gradient or is it faked in the material by tweaking distance to camera ?
Thanks in advance and sorry if that feels a bit silly, I’m having a hard time in a few area to get the NPR mindset !
Keep up the good work, I’ve noticed your stuff regularly it’s pretty cool !
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Thank you very much for the compliments on my work, really appreciate it.
Well, I like to experiment with combining different shaders until I get the result I want. I mainly use Emission, ColorRamp, Fresnel, Gamma, and MixShader
I use the object’s normal as I rotate it, the clouds aren’t affected by the light, there’s only one light source that affects the color of the teapot. I never use texture images in my objects, I only use colors and, very rarely, gradients. I make extensive use of light and color effects. I really rarely use volumetrics, I don’t really like it, I prefer to experiment with transparent color models combined with lighting.
In compositing, I use Deth Atmosphere, which I combine with Bloom and some strange mixtures that blend together to achieve the result. It can take several hours or a few days to figure out the composition in my head.
If you’re really interested in my work, I’d love to invite you to check out my Instagram, which features all 249 of my works since 2016.
https://www.instagram.com/anael_3d/
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Hey ! thanks a lot for those explanations ! it helps a lot !
I’m not on IG but if I would I’ll definitly check more work from you !
Keep up the good work !
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I’m glad to know that. Thank you so much for what you said
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