Learn a production workflow to layout, set dressing, and time-saving techniques for modeling, texturing, and scene development. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training and guides artists step-by-step through a proven approach to story-telling with set dressing, designing with art direction, and processes of building natural sets and environments as seen in animated feature films.
Popular highlights include:
* Using References in Set Design
* Creating a Natural Layout
* Story-telling Through Layout
* Working with Art Direction
* Creating Foliage with Paint Effects
* Placing Models with geometryPaint
* Displacing Geometry with Height Maps
* Working with Issues of Scale
* Rigging Props
* Animating Props
* Modeling Natural Objects and Props
* Adding Procedural Texture
* Adding mental ray Shaders
* Painting Placement/Texture Guides
* Importing Artwork
* Scene Management
Lesson Outline:
1. Introduction and project overview; importing artwork of the island 5:12
2. Blocking in the island and coastline 8:52
3. Adding an ocean plane 12:53
4. Adding mid ground and back ground hills 6:59
5. Sculpting the beach with Artisan 11:11
6. Painting a layout guide onto the island 8:45
7. Building a palm tree 11:49
8. Working on the palm leaves 14:42
9. Finishing the palm tree model 6:32
10. Rigging the tree for interactive deformation 7:50
11. Arranging the trees on the beach 10:49
12. Building rocks 10:11
13. Adding texture procedurally 5:41
14. Placing rocks using geometryPaint 5:45
15. Building a vine with a bend deformer 7:48
16. Placing vines 5:10
17. Creating a natural layout with plants and bushes 8:07
18. Adding grass to transition areas, breaking up lines 7:18
19. Placing the hut and modifying terrain 5:37
20. Creating a sense of scale 5:06
21. Adding props to create a story 12:05
22. Painting the beach texture 10:06
23. Finishing the beach texture 7:42
24. Adding foliage to the mid ground hill with Paint Effects 9:26
25. Displacing the background hill with a height map 4:35
26. Adding a sky 3:13
27. Adding the ocean shader and environment fog; conclusion 7:47
Total Run Time:
3:41:11
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