Cartoonish trees (wip)

[joel ruiz c]

Starting a new project that has to be done in a little more than a week from now, hopefully.

I'm wondering what would be the best way to add foliage to these trees. I want it to look cartoonish, but have detail. Any ideas?

 

[MonkeyT]

Something I've been tinkering with that might work for you. Meant to be viewed at a distance, playing with scale, but kinda cartoonish/illustrative, and distorting a primitive shape like a torus comes up with pretty good coverage.

 

[joel ruiz c]

I went with the crumple modifier to distort a half sphere and use that as the base for the particle mesh. I'm still playing with the settings.

 

[Helmut]

* You may also consider using particle tags, setting / animating the parameters for the relevant X, Y & Z variations.

 

[joel ruiz c]

Thanks Helmut, yes I'm using tags too.

 

[joel ruiz c]

Small update

 

[joel ruiz c]

Just a different render of the same thing.

The sign is just a placeholder in order to have something to focus on. I like the bokeh (quality of the out of focus areas) in the leaves farther away from the camera.

 

[joel ruiz c]

BTW I feel that the brightness of the forum makes for a bad frame for the renders, I'm so used to dark mode now lol..

 

[joel ruiz c]

Thanks to the Coronavirus and social distancing I made this little house today

Still not finished, it's going to be placed somewhere between the trees.

 

[Fran]

Beautiful stuff! I'm curious to see the texture for the house!

 

[joel ruiz c]

Beautiful stuff! I'm curious to see the texture for the house!

Thank you! I'm not very good at texturing I'll give it a shot.

Same thing, nothing new just different light (sky light).

 

[joel ruiz c]

Simple color.

 

[joel ruiz c]

Update, the house modeling is done I think.

 

[joel ruiz c]

Not the final placement, I'm going to rearrange the whole thing later but I wanted to see how these things look together.

 

[MonkeyT]

Nice.

 

[joel ruiz c]

Thank you!

 

[joel ruiz c]

Thanks to Hiroto's Aligned Particle Spline script, this is a test of a basic fence.

 

[joel ruiz c]

Experimenting with night time.

 

[frank beckmann]

Just a small hint on spreading objects along splines with the Chain-creator:
Object needs to be oriented along Z-axis.

Cheers
Frank

 

[joel ruiz c]

Thanks Frank, I didn't try the Chain creator. I tried the particle spline but it's so basic that it's of little use and then found Hiroto's script. I thought of the chain creator later but I was able to do it with the script so I didn't try, thanks for showing me it's possible with it.