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title: "How to Create Iridescent Materials with Thin Film"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VMAYA/111741674/How%20to%20Create%20Iridescent%20Materials%20with%20Thin%20Film"
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This tutorial covers some easy steps for creating several iridescent materials: soap bubbles, as well as colored ceramic and pearl-like cat figurines.


## **Overview**

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## **Part I: Using Soap Bubble Preset**

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## **Part II: Creating Iridescent Colored Ceramic Shading**

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### Adjust the Coat Layer

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### Adjust the Thin Film Layer

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## **Part III: Creating Iridescent Pearl-like Shading**

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### Adjust Texture and Coat Layer

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### Adjust the Thin Film Layer

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## **Final Results**


The images are rendered on CPU with V-Ray for Maya 2023.3 and may look different when rendered with an earlier V-Ray for Maya version.