Reply To: Collab2021-WIP-PFBourassa

Homework Week 1 – BG Bushes
@theluthier

I’m not exactly sure what to do for this first assignment, since these bushes are so far away.
And it’s hard to get much info about “L” from this picture.

So I’ve been focusing on testing out different techniques with respect to efficiency and accuracy to the artwork.
As you can see above, I think I’ll be using the Ghibli method to make “clusters” then rendering those to PNGs, and using a few planes to build out the bushes. Here’s how it looks:

From here, I can keep refining the shader to match the various colors. And animating a little sway.
And I think we can use these cheap bushes to fill in any gaps in the background as we figure out exactly what will be surrounding the house.

A few questions moving forward:
Will the camera stay close to the house, and low to the ground. These planes will look mega bad from other angles, but I think the cheat will work if the camera is somewhat constricted. Within the fence at least?

Can we make a shadeless material in Eevee?
Should we?
I see emission, but I don’t want the bushes to cast light obviously.
Also, I considered making them not cast shadows, but just adding a simple ground shadow manually. So the planes won’t shadow each other and break the illusion.

P.s. I wouldn’t say you are a brutal grader, but you do always give constructive criticism. It’s the only way to grow, and just hearing “great job” doesn’t really help with that.