Collab2021-WIP-notcastanza

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April 6, 2021 at 2:48 pm #13727
Ben Reichel
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Collaboration 2021 workspace
April 11, 2021 at 7:47 pm #65217
Ben Reichel
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Week 1 – WIP Submission. FG – Tree (E)

Tried to Matchup as close as I could. I used the Skin Modifier. I think I’m going to try using the geometry nodes for the leaves.

Angle Shot
April 12, 2021 at 1:11 am #65218
spikeyxxx
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Looking great!

Don’t forget to @theluthier to your homework submission (or is this still a WIP?).
April 12, 2021 at 8:54 am #65219
Ben Reichel
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@theluthier I forgot to tag you when I posted this yesterday
April 12, 2021 at 8:55 am #65220
Ben Reichel
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thanks @spikeyxxx
April 14, 2021 at 4:28 pm #65221
Kent Trammell
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Holy matched tree limbs, Batman! Very impressive commitment to authenticity @notcastanza. Way closer than I ever anticipated. You’ve easily earned full points + a little extra for the effort 👍

My immediate question after seeing the first image was “But how does it look in 3D…” and I’m thrilled to see that you thought of that alredy. Looks awesome. My only note is that the center of the trunk feels awkwardly thin, like it would break trying to support the branches. I recommend thickening that up a bit and you’re golden:
April 14, 2021 at 4:37 pm #65222
Kent Trammell
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One other thing: Sculpting detail is going to look so good on this! However if you sculpt the whole trunk + branches you’re going to have a very busy week. I recommend only sculpting the area of the trunk I’ve highlighted in blue:

Very little chance the camera will be up in the branches close enough to see such detail. You should probably separate the non-highlighted branches into they’re own mesh for sculpting. Otherwise they’ll lag your sculpting experience big time.
April 14, 2021 at 7:27 pm #65223
Matthew Ullrey
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@notcastanza I am liking how your TreeB is turning out. I like how you doubled the concept art to get the other side of the tree. 👍🏻
April 15, 2021 at 5:19 pm #65224
Ben Reichel
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Week 2: Sculpting first attempt WIP
April 18, 2021 at 8:29 am #65225
Ben Reichel
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Week 2 – WIP Submission. FG – Tree (E)

@theluthier @spikeyxxx

I widened the trunk a little.

I baked the highpoly to the lowpoly and then cleaned it up with texture painting. I still need to work on the leaf branches but I feel like the profile is close to the image. However, I messed up my camera angle but from front view the tree still matches the image.

I’m leaving the high poly tree in my blend file. Not sure if you wanted that included. I’ll need to figure out the Google Drive thing.

Multiple Lighting

Single Lighting
April 18, 2021 at 8:35 am #65226
Vincent
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Amazing work!
April 18, 2021 at 9:28 am #65227
spikeyxxx
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Looks fantastic Ben!
April 18, 2021 at 7:15 pm #65228
Ben Reichel
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OH MY GOODNESS!!! I spent a good 2 hours on texture painting the bark this morning. I forgot to save the image file. Oh the sadness. Dang Dang Dang.
April 19, 2021 at 9:22 am #65229
Ben Reichel
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Well, deep breath and smile. It is a new day.

And, as long as I need to go in and redo some things, I’m planning on looking at my lowpoly tree with fresh eyes. I am going to take this week and clean up all of the unnecessary edge loops. I’m going to manually create seams and focus on getting a really tight texture map and new bake.

Time to make some lemonade.
April 21, 2021 at 1:59 pm #65230
Jonathan Lampel
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This is looking great! Easily full points for this week. Sorry to hear about the bark texture – I’ve done that too many times! I’m encouraging the other folks making trees to go the image texture on planes route, but since yours is right up close to the camera for the main shot I think individual leaves like you have it is fine. If you want to optimize at the end by baking out the colors and normals onto a more simple object that would be awesome, but I don’t think it’s a crucial requirement for this one. I would love to see some basic textures on the leaves and branches though once you have the trunk and bark wrapped up.

Again, this looks amazing, so keep up the excellent work!
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