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naked trees the alphaskin+polymesh-way

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#1

what i did:

:large_orange_diamond: fill canvas with black, paint "treeshape" with paintbrush and snakehook and zadd-off in white.      :angry: what i did wrong here was other than not being able to paint a nice tree was neglecting default settings: paintbrush is rgb-intensity 90 only - increase that to 100! + i should have drawn much thinner branches.

[img]http://www.cyber-webs.com/zbrush/juandel/paintedtreeRGBGrab01.jpg[/img]    

:large_orange_diamond: a mrgbz-grab and texture>modifiers>make alpha

:large_orange_diamond: make 3d - i think it was 192 by 5

:large_orange_diamond: because i was going to make a polymesh i optimized the mesh to achieve as few polygons as possible

:large_orange_diamond: i rotated the alphaskin-tool in the tools preview-window and dragged the red crosshair a bit off its center. though this is making the handling of the tool a bit unaccustomed it helps to prevent markers to be set on the same spot (and therefore just one tool being remembered when doing the multimarkers-procedure)

:large_orange_diamond: i dragrectangled the tool, rotated it so i saw it from above (just a rather thin line), placed marker 1, snapshot it via ccommand+S and rotated and moved its clone into place (same center for stem). i did so     :angry: 5 times, which definitely was overdoing it - three or four times should be enough. furthermore it would have helped to save the tool and to do a mirroring for variation. before mm-ing it, it looked like a star.

:large_orange_diamond: multimarkers, make polymesh + applying the wooden texture, a little inflate, thats all.

the awful tree to the right is from an earlier experiment in the same session :D.

hopefully this experiment will inspire others to create (and share ;)) better treesā€¦ mine is too big to post here, in case you are interested, just send me a private message giving a mailadress :slight_smile:

  • juandel

:red_circle: edit as per 052803: thank you for below comments, ZBs :smiley:

i replaced the original squirrel-less trees with squirreled ones :smiley: this wonderful model was created by DM (Dave Maguire) and one of my next projects will definitely be starring one :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: squirrel in big size

#2

Hi Juandel
Trees ā€œNaĆÆfā€ style :slight_smile:
Could you change the :red_circle: in :large_orange_diamond: because your text seems some severe :roll_eyes:
and discordant with the Interface of the post and trees :slight_smile:
On my own advice of course :slight_smile:
Pilou

#3

Interesting technique Hansl, and some promising results in a naive style. This would be good for making some nice branching coral too. :+1:

#4

Love your tree method and the resulting trees!
They have a very illustrative, ā€˜Where the wild things areā€™, appearance. Very stylish. :sunglasses: :+1: :+1:

#5

very nice tree juandelā€¦ i could use a tree like that in my back yard to block the mid day sunā€¦

#6

Oooooo gettin nekid in the trees are we Juandel? Paintbrush too small??..donā€™t you just hate when that happens? :smiley: Thanks for sharing bud! :slight_smile:

#7

Some great info and useful stuff Hansl, thanks for sharing your work. The end result is excellent, and glad you found somewhere for the Zsquirrel to climb.
:+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:
Dave

#8

thanks, everybody, part. to you, Dave - your :+1: :+1: :+1: squirrel is starring in the below off-seasonal one again :slight_smile: checking its stash:

btw: sky was done on a darkgrey flatcolorplane with highlighter2 in bristle mode at different rgb-intensities with a smokey alpha, then smudged with spraystroke and a tree alpha loaded. the fog alpha was a grab of the polymeshtreetoll placed at the canvas bottom taken with autocrop off. it didnt turn out the way i expected - it looked awful without blurring the alpha before turning it into a texture for loading it into the fog-render-slot, and doesnt look much better blurred.

doc: let the sunshine in :smiley: those blocky trees would drive squirrels nuts :wink: - no chance to hop from twig to branch

Mentat: problem is, its too cold to get nekid when the trees are, too :smiley:

  • juandel
#9

I still havenā€™t got the squirrels eyes, poylmeshed with the body Hansl, as soon as I poylmesh it the body polygons look rough and it breaks the texture up. I will have to try using UV mapper, then I can texture it in C4D, plus give the eyes a specular material and assemble it in C4D. The the end result being hopefully a file with material detail as well.
Great job with the image.
:+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:
Dave