I've started this quest with Sequoia. Magnificent tree that exists today and is naturally growing only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Most of these monumental trees (about 95%) were obliterated during logging in late 19th and early 20th century.
Hopefully we will preserve and rebuild at least part of these forests that were there before.
Anyway, to go back to the topic. I own Vue 8 Infinite software that contains comprehensive library of trees and plants.
There is one Sequoia tree there but it just doesn't look good if you need to render it in any proximity to the camera. It could work well for distant shots of complete forests on vast terrain.
For my work I need trees and plants that can bee set closer to and around subjects of the illustrations, both foreground and background.
Bellow you can see the rendered tree. This is the alpha tree. It is built in pieces so I can easily rebuild it using its parts to form more unique trees from it. I also made 3 varied tree trunk textures. This way I can avoid having obvious repetitive elements within one or series of illustrations.
Click on image then right click and select view image for a closer look.
Fantastic bark texture. You've really captured the species. I'm learning Vue and Plant Factory, but there seems to be a real scarcity of high resolution species-accurate models available, and almost none of them model mature trees/forests.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see a process you use identical or similar to that you used to make this beauty.
ReplyDeleteDo you realize that there is a difference between coastal redwood and giant sequoia? The bark of the trees you made appears to be a great example of coast redwood NOT giant sequoia. Btw 95% of COASTAL redwood forests were destroyed, roughly only 2/3 of giant sequoia forests were destroyed.
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