Creating a Realistic Environment in Blender
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this Blender tutorial, we'll learn how to create a realistic environment. Software required: Blender 2.75a.
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Course Description
In this Blender tutorial, we'll learn how to create a realistic environment. We'll build the environment by sculpting and using the ANT Landscape add-on. We'll also create a fairly complex ground material using multiple textures. Along the way, we'll model and create materials for many environment props such as rocks, grass, flowers, bushes, and trees. We'll also use a few different techniques to generate our environment ecosystem from manual placement to particle instancing. We'll create a river water system using the ocean modifier as well as the dynamic paint features. Then we'll render with Cycles and composite the final image using the node editor. By the end of this Blender training, you'll have an array of techniques to create your own stunning environments with Cycles in Blender. Software required: Blender 2.75a.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 34s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 34sCreating a Realistic Environment in Blender- 4h 25m
—Exploring Where to Get CC0 Textures 3m 31s
—Setting up the Scene and Composition 10m 22s
—Using the ANT Landscape Add-on 10m 13s
—Refining the Environment 9m 13s
—Painting Stencils to Separate Terrain Textures 10m 34s
—Creating Terrain Material with Three Textures 9m 55s
—Refining the Terrain Material 6m 18s
—Modeling Procedural Rocks 10m 26s
—Creating Grass Variations 9m 26s
—Continuing Grass and Flower Creation 9m 59s
—Creating Clovers and Small Plants 11m 31s
—Using Sapling Add-on 10m 0s
—Creating a White Birch Tree 8m 27s
—Continuing White Birch Tree Leafs 11m 5s
—Creating a Pine Tree / Conifer 9m 39s
—Finishing the Pine Tree 10m 30s
—Creating a Bush Plant 9m 34s
—Instancing the Background Forest 8m 52s
—Continuing Instancing Trees 9m 22s
—Adding Grass to the Foreground 9m 44s
—Editing Grass Particles and Material 11m 1s
—Finishing the Grass and Adding Rocks 10m 57s
—Refining the Rocks and Adding Modeled Grass 10m 14s
—Adding More Variations to All the Materials 10m 47s
—Creating Believable River Water 9m 34s
—Adding Wetness to the Rocks and River Bed 9m 10s
—Compositing the Final Image 11m 0s
—Recap of the Project 3m 28s
