Blender Procedural Bubble Material 🫧

🌟 Product Overview

This product contains a Blender procedural material for rendering a bubble-like material — with aesthetics inspired by the swirling, multi-colored “shimmer” that often appears when bubbles are floating in the air and exposed to light:

The shader nodes consist of procedural logic that generates a number of aesthetic characteristics — including (but not limited to):

• A colored, swishing, shimmering swirl with configurable saturation
• Transparency strength to control the shimmer’s reach into the object center.
• Subtle, configurable bump noise.

Furthermore, as a benefit of Blender’s shader node architecture, it’s seamless to configure, customize, duplicate, and extend according to your needs 💪

✨ Key Features

• ⚙️ Extensively customizable controls for the material’s aesthetic characteristics.
• 🎨 Optimized for Blender 4.1 to leverage the features of the new Principled BSDF shader.
• ✨Clean, well-architected node trees — crafted with care for logical coherence and extensibility.
• 🎭 A starter set of demo objects showcasing various ways to use the material.

📦 Contents

• A Blender file containing:
  • The aforementioned procedural material.
  • A usage demo with models showcasing the material’s application.
  • A “studio” setup with lighting, multiple cameras, and multiple backdrop surfaces to experiment with.
  • An environment-lighting setup with multiple “World” configurations to experiment with.
  • A Compositor setup with utility node groups for experimenting with different background compositions, glare effects, recoloring effects, and more.
• A collection of images showcasing final renders from the demo.

🧩 Compatibility Notes

• Built with Blender 4.1.
• Configured for both the Cycles and EEVEE rendering engines.
  • In EEVEE, consider enabling Screen Space Reflections and Ambient Occlusion for more accurate transparency rendering.
• Should be compatible with previous versions of Blender.