Turning a 2D Illustration into 3D

Опубликовано: 25 Февраль 2026
на канале: Levi Magony
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Credits:
Original illustration by Andrey Prokopenko:   / bpextgygzyk  
woman on the thumbnail: https://bit.ly/3TIxLWv

In this video I'm showing you how I recreated a 2D illustration in Blender. You'll learn how to make a procedural color banding effect using nodes, how to make procedural stars, waves and the reflection of the Sun. I used toon shader for the lighthouse. I faked the reflections. In the end of the video there're two bonus tips. The first one is about how to convert a real life footage of a bird to a colored silhouette, and the second one is about how to shade beveled corners correctly using material indexes in the bevel settings.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Modeling
1:05 Sky
1:46 Color banding effect
3:02 Lighthouse
3:57 Reflection of the Sun
5:12 Waves
6:10 Fake Reflections
6:21 1. Bonus tip
7:26 2. Bonus tip

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