WIP-Leaves Swaying Example - Rustboy

[Gene]

Hi All,

 

I tried the technique to build a tree as used by Brian Taylor who is working on Rustboy (www.rustboy.com).

 

I think the results were quite good and this is a much faster technique when compared to using hair (or at leas that is my experience).

 

Here is a quick summary of what I did.

 

1. Create a patch and past a Cookie Cut decal of leaves.

2. Animate the patch (by tweaking splines and cp's) to give a wrustling movement to the leaves.

3. Render as a QT with an alpha channel (do not use any compression for the QT, just use Animation).

4. Make a model of a tree trunk

5. Make a patch and add a decal of the animated QT as a Cookie Cutter.

6. Copy and paste several of the "leaves" patches and arrange to look like a tree.

7. Animate the tree/patches of leaves so that it appears the branches are swaying in the wind.

8. Render in a Chor.

 

My example is attached....thanks to Johnl3D for his advice and examples.

 

Cheers,

 

Eugene

TreeSwaying_004.mov

[mtpeak2]

Nice tree. The animation looks good too. Did you animate it in an action or choreography? If you did it in the choreography, animated it in an action so you can set it to repeat it in the choreography.

[Cortes]

Well thats pretty dang good man. Holy Macrel if i could do that i would be happy.

[Gene]

This was animated as in an Action so it could be repeated easily.

[johnl3d]

Hey Gene I thing you got a winner. And so you know why I help instead of modeling I present you with my green canary qt or "even feathers don't help"

 

 

Again great work despite my help

model.mov

[KenH]

Good stuff. Worthy of the 2005 CD.

[Gene]

John,

 

The Green Canary is hilarious! I don't know where you get your material from, but you've got one heck of an imagination.

 

I've attached another example, this time the tree was not animated at all...the only things which are moving are the animated decals...so, the movement is quite subtle. Best to save and loop in Quicktime.

 

The Project file isn't really setup for the tree to be viewed at all angles, but perhaps I could work one up and make it available.

 

Thank you for all the comments.

 

Eugene

TreeSwaying_003.mov

[Gene]

Hello Everyone,

 

I did up a cleaned up project of the trees with animated decals as leaves and I would like to make it available to anyone who wants it.

 

The problem is that the project file is about 11Mb zipped and that means only about 20 downloads and my account will be frozen.

 

Could anyone offer up some webspace to make this available to others? The project file is large due to the animated decal

 

Thanks,

 

Eugene

[pia12254]

I think I could host it...

 

If you want to go ahead and post it on your account, send me the link, and I will download it and then post the link for everyone to have access to it.

 

Email me the link at pia12254@excite.com

 

Later!

[Zaryin]

I did something like that about a year or so ago. I never finished mine, but if I did I still don't think it would look as good as that! Nice job.

 

Ps: John, I love the canary, lol!