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Iridescent Soap Bubble Shader - Arnold for Maya

Important:

standard surface thin film can also be used to create a bubble shading effect.

This tutorial shows how to shade the swirling rainbow color effect on a soap bubble. It can be achieved using a fluidTexture2DShape. This scene file consists of a fluidTexture2DShape that is connected to standard surface specular color.

The scene can be downloaded here.

fluidTexture2DShape -> specular color

Note:

You must play through the animation time slider in order to see the fluidTexture2D effect.

Further examples

Thanks to Duncan Brinsmead for his original fluidTexture2DShape texture.

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