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title: "Dielectrics and Conductors"
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Understanding the difference between Conductive and Dielectric materials is crucial in creating beautiful, realistic shaders, and this lesson will provide you with all the fundamentals you need to get started.

Before you watch the video, here’s a straightforward explanation:

**Dielectrics **are materials, such as plastic, glass, wood, and fabric.

**Conductors **are materials that ‘conduct’ energy, commonly found in metals such as brass, chrome, bronze etc

Armed with this basic understanding, watch the video below to see how to mimic those two main types of materials in RenderMan


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