Creator Wizard Seth's Blog

www.creatorwizardseth.com So I am creating more trees today. Let's start with one inspired by some of the branching formations of oak and maple trees. This looks a lot better then my last attempt. The branching looks much more natural. The way the branches thin out near the top however is incorrect and needs more tuning. There is a linear shrinking from trunk to twig and this is not natural or correct. Let's throw on some leaves and see what it looks like. I am using a different style of leaf that I have created. The geometry is more randomized and facing many different directions. This makes it easier to perceive the volume because there is more samples for your eyes to analyze for how light is interacting with the leaves at that location. Now here is a floating branch which has leaves which dimensions are half of the bigger leaves. Half the dimension means 1/8th the volume because we are working in 3 dimensions. This means 8 times as much control over the shape and 8 times mo...

 We are here today to make some improvements on some trees that I have created. I created a single branch and duplicated it in order to fill out the tree canopy on the basis of a prototype. Now it is time to refine it further.  We can see clearly that this tree branch has a much better shape. The leaves are distributed in a much more natural and organized way compared to the last tree render that used leaf clusters that were arranged in a spherical way making it harder to achieve a specific shape. Below I have created a variation of a branch, on the right is the old variation, and on the left is the new. The difference being that the leaves are much more organized and face a more similar direction to one another. This will make it easier to shape the branch in a specific way. And below is another branch I have created which also has a couple leaves on the upper part of the branch to give it some nice variation and detail. The branch on the right is the new branch that utilizes...