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!
