COLLAB2021 – If You Wanna Have Some Fun – NATURE FG

[Cannon Raymond]

Hey everyone! I can’t wait to start working with you all!

I believe I am working on the E tree but I am still being approved 

[artifact]

Hey Parker! Great to see your here.

[artifact]

Hey @stickdonkey ! Most welcome!

[spikeyxxx]

Hi Parker, we appreciate your visits

[Ben Reichel]

Hey @spikeyxxx! I’m excited to join the team.  I’ll be learning a lot with the FG Trees.  Close up stylized leaves has me nervous.  But a good nervous.

[Martin Dablander]

Since I never used the sculpting tools before,  I tried to get familiar with them today. Especially the Scrape Brush. After  creating a base mesh and subdividing it, I used the Scrape Brush to carve some flat surfaces. Later on I will add some more details. Don’t know if this is the right approach to the stones. So if anybody can have an eye at my outcome to confirm that it’s going in the right direction. After that I have a couple of Questions: 

The hardest part so far seems to match the stones to the template. So how close do I have to get to the picture with each of them? 

Should I model all of them, or just a few to copy them around?

And what is with the parts of a stone that will not get seen?

[yukino hatake]

decided to keep it flat so it would be a bit lesser verticies , also removed some extra geometry of the other parts of the flower

[Florian W]

Flowmaps, yes – some guy from Leipzig made the addon I intent to use 🙂 Free Flow Map Painter Addon – BlenderNation 

[James Langley]

Hi Martin,  fellow rocker here. Thanks for asking the above questions as I’m equally confused. Should we divide up the different rocks for us to re-create? Say divvy it up into three sections? Also, do we need to create the rocks so they match the image exactly? @spikeyxxx 

I’m going to do the rock tutorial just refresh the pallet. really like your above examples especially the one with the slight scrape on the right

[spikeyxxx]

Hi Martin, that is looking really good!

I#d say model all of tehm, as they are not too difficult and still a great practice, but (and is a general rule) if you can get away with copying and scaling and rotating, without it being noticeable, you can do that (woudl deifinitely do that with some trees ;)).

The bottom can be left un sculpted if you want, but if you want to copy stones, it can be an advantage if you can turn them over for a different look. The backside (from camera view) should look good, as the camera will move around.

And James, I’d say everybody makes all stones.

As to how close to the artwork, well it should definitely match the style as close as possible, but the shape and details do not have to match exactly (I’d try to stay close to the size though). Like, for the trees, not every leaf has to be exact like in the artwork.

[bun-bun]

Hey guys,
I am so glad to join the best team of Collab2021!

After the requested 24h grace period, I decided to join @yukinoh1989 on his quest to grow a flower bed.
Hope I am going to learn a lot from you guys. Already loving the communication and support in this channel!

[spikeyxxx]

Welcome bun-bun!

There will de flowers 🙂

I will be keeping a close eye on you two, while I am making the grass 😉

[yukino hatake]

nice to have you onto the flower quest 🙂 lets try to make bunch of awesome flowers and plants they can use 😀

[bun-bun]

I feel you and thanks for the warm welcome.
I think I will do some experimentation during the week and decide on an approach on the weekend.
Having to be resourceful with geometry while still creating awesome results sounds definitely like a challenge to me.
Looking forwards seeing first results!

[rstich]

Hi folks, 

happy to join the Spice Girl Nature Team 😀
Lot of Rockin Dudes here.

Will do some Grass here. Never done it on such a scale. So lot to learn especially performance wise. Currently experimenting a little bit with the possible techniques.
theluthier mentioned particles as one heavier way to approach this. Was thinking about trying Geometry Nodes on this aswell. Should be a more controllable result. Wondering if it has some better performance than particles. The final Result might be some combination of different approaches i think, particles or nodes and image planes anyways so good opportunity to try them all.

What do you think? 

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