This comprehensive course offers all the knowledge and skills required to model and animate detailed, high quality trees and plants for visual effects. By creating several different tree types, students will become familiar with essential areas like generation modes, curves, variance and leaf meshes, as well as wind and growth animation. Special focus will be given to new features in version 8, like seasonal variations, shape control, lighting, multi-pass rendering, and PBR materials.
Eran Dinur is an Emmy and VES award winning VFX supervisor, and the author of the popular book The Filmmaker's Guide to Visual Effects. He has lead Brainstorm Digital's team on over 35 films and TV series, including The Wolf of Wall Street, Boardwalk Empire, The Greatest Showman, Wonder Wheel, The Lost City of Z, Papillon, Hostiles, Triple Nine Limitless, Café Society, The Men Who Built America and more. Before joining Brainstorm Digital, Eran was senior compositor at Framestore NY and ILM Singapore, where he worked on films such as: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Surrogates, Terminator Salvation, Star Trek, Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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