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Creating trees in Maya/Paint effects /

In this DVD-ROM, Alex demonstrates how to use the Paint Effects engine in Maya to create realistic trees. We begin by looking at the default PFX library, which has been converted to polygons for a Mental Ray workflow in an interactive instancer driven scene. Alex than demonstrates how to customize a...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Software Video
Language:English
Published: Hollywood, California : Gnomon Workshop, [2012]
Series:Forest techniques ; Part three.
Professional training for artists.
Subjects:
Trees in art.
Maya (Computer file)
Computer animation.
Computer drawing > Special effects.
Three-dimensional display systems.
Instructional films.
Nonfiction films.
Table of Contents:
  • 01. Paint effects
  • 02. Customizing a tree, part one
  • 03. Part two: Twigs, leaves, wind
  • 04. Branching options/PFX modifiers
  • 05. Textures, materials and rendering
  • 06. UV tiles, wind animation tests
  • 07. Duplicating/randomizing with history
  • 08. Park scene set-up workflow
  • 09. Park scene rendering: ZDepth, composting
  • 10. Park: volume fog, final composite
  • 11. Leaf resolution
  • 12. Palm trees
  • 13. Pine trees
  • 14. Willow tree
  • 15. Bamboo.