3D Environments: Create Otherworldly Fantasy Lands

Description

In this course, you will :

• Ale explains his process for creating imaginative digital settings from conception to finish, as well as how to simplify what appears to be hard. 

Syllabus :

1. Workflow

• Pipeline and Workflow
• The Mood Board

2. The Layout and Blocking the Scene

• The Layout 
• The Interim Review
• Exporting to Houdini

3. Houdini Terrain Modeling

• An Overview of Heightfields in Houdini 
• Working on the Background Mountain 
• The Castle Mountain 
• The Foreground Terrain 
• The Water Terrain and Export to Clarisse iFX

4. Pre-lighting

• An Overview of Clarisse iFX 
• Creating an Asset Library 
• The First Pass of Lighting and References 

5. Look Development

• Texture and Look Development for the Castle 
• Procedural Look Development for the Terrain 
• Look Development for the River 
• Look Development for the Atmosphere

6. Dressing the Set

• Assembling the Rocks 
• Scattering Small Rocks 
• Scattering Grass and Flowers 
• Scattering Bushes 
• Scattering Trees 
• Adding Volumes

7. Rendering and Compositing

• Creating Layers, Optimizing the Render, and Rendering
• The Final Composite

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