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Learn a production workflow to layout, set dressing, and time-saving techniques for modeling, texturing, and scene development. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training and guides artists step-by-step through a proven approach to story-telling with set dressing, designing with art direction, and processes of building natural sets and environments as seen in animated feature films.

Popular highlights include:

Using References in Set Design

Creating a Natural Layout

Story-telling Through Layout

Working with Art Direction

Creating Foliage with Paint Effects

Placing Models with geometryPaint

Displacing Geometry with Height Maps

Working with Issues of Scale; Rigging Props

Animating Props

Modeling Natural Objects and Props

Adding Procedural Texture

Adding mental ray Shaders

Painting Placement/Texture Guides

Importing Artwork

Scene Management

Lesson Outline (27 lessons)

01. Introduction and project overview; importing artwork of the island

02. Blocking in the island and coastline

03. Adding an ocean plane

04. Adding mid ground and back ground hills

05. Sculpting the beach with Artisan

06. Painting a layout guide onto the island

07. Building a palm tree

08. Working on the palm leaves

09. Finishing the palm tree model

10. Rigging the tree for interactive deformation

11. Arranging the trees on the beach

12. Building rocks

13. Adding texture procedurally

14. Placing rocks using geometryPaint

15. Building a vine with a bend deformer

16. Placing vines

17. Creating a natural layout with plants and bushes

18. Adding grass to transition areas; breaking up lines

19. Placing the hut and modifying terrain

20. Creating a sense of scale

21. Adding props to create a story

22. Painting the beach texture

23. Finishing the beach texture

24. Adding foliage to the mid ground hill with Paint Effects

25. Displacing the background hill with a height map

26. Adding a sky

27. Adding the ocean shader and environment fog; conclusion

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