NancyGormezano Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I was so inspired by Will Sutton's tree - that I had to give it a go. I had a leftover tree from when I was playing around with Marcel Bricman's Treez plugin - added hairy foilage - (2 emitters, 2 diffuse color decals) - When I rendered - decided I didn't like the colors - went into photoshop - changed to Grayscale, added the mountain horizon in the background - tweaked the contrast - Produced something very unusual for me - not cartoony - not really real - but pseudo-tromp-d'oeil... Will also post the original rendering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 And now: The original hot off the render press from AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfree68f Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Holy Crap! Nice! C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Very nice TREE ! must be great to be able to model so nicely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Nancy, Really nice image. Has a kind of surreal look to it. Oil painting meets 3D....Cool! Good work Eugene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesshmusic Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Trippy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Jaqe Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 look at the forms...and...and...the tree...and...and...the leaves...aaand... that's a fiiiiiiiinE tree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 must be great to be able to model so nicely Uhhhh, bluhhh...Model? Me? Wait a minute youse guyzzz - this is all procedurally generated - the tree is from marcel's plug-in, the leaves from Hash hair, & the ground plane is 1 big FLAT patch with image added (repeated 10 x 10, seamless). And of course the sky is a rotoscope (actually 2, cloud form - superimposed on a squished gradient) Now I will take credit for all the textures used...Details to follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Here's the tree in wire form - (beautiful canopy shape - lovely limbs) - as I said before - procedurally generated - I did click a few buttons - does that count? Probably not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 I decaled the canopy surface with two different images, to use for coloring the leaves - the decals were both images from previous projects I did, -just liked the mix of colors in the images - and also added an image to all canopy patches that was just a blank (alpha all black) so that the canopy would be invisible, but that the hair (leaves) would take on the decal colors here's the decal images on the canopy (1st is used for emitter 1, second is used for emitter 2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Like I said before - I used 2 emitters - I found that if I tried to use something that resembled a leaf - it looked too fakey (which I usually love - I love FAKEY) - this is the tree with two different emitters, each colored by a different decal - pretty - but not enough variation or noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 This is the tree - with two emitters but using the same image for both emitters - but each emitter colored by a different decal - mo' noize mo better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 And here is the emitter - looks nothing like leaves - but has a gradient applied (black to white) - I colored the non visible with ...ummm...puke mustard so that you can see the shape of the emitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 and just to be complete here is the noizy ground pattern that I created in painter to repeat on the big ground plane - pattern done in another project (originally for a stone wall type thingy)- applied 50% to a ground plane group which had dark green as the surface color. again MORE NOISE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 And to be complete - also added combo of two images (rt click - add image) to bark (non-canopy groups) - images combined 50-50 - also again from previous projects - By the way - did I mention don't get too close to tree - thats when the fakey takes over . This is all meant to be viewed in a static image at the appropriate distance. Unless you're like me & love the inauthentic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaryin Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Very creative use of squiggle . It's like painting with a few brushstrokes. Most painting are not meant to be viewed close up, but from farther back you get the illusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenH Posted June 28, 2005 Share Posted June 28, 2005 I missed this thread (I've since become interested in trees ) and that's a mighty fine model you have there Nancy. Would look good in Oz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 Nancy--- WOW! If you were to make several of these and go for authentic (yeah-yeah, I know!) you would have yourself a saleable commodity! I know it's not intended for motion...but could'nt you give us an encore and do a small motion test???? PWEEEZE! Thanks for the info on how you did it....DANG, now I have to try it!!! BTW- I enjoyed your 'pass the ball' entries as well. Keep-up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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