July’s Top 5 is an inspiring group of creators including digital matte painters, professional production designers, and Quixel masters: don’t skip a single one.
Tran Ma – Floral Crown
Tran Ma is a professional artist whose titles include Ender’s Game, Godzilla: King of Monsters, and Thor. “Floral Crown” is her stunning ArtStation debut and it demonstrates that SpeedTree can be used for more than bushes and trees. Create a string of pearls like those adorning, “Flower Crown” by distributing custom meshes along your branches and vines using the leaf mesh generator.
Vivek Chaurasia – Giant Tree Small Village
Vivek Chaurasia is a digital matte painter with a portfolio full of misty mountains and mysterious landscapes. “Giant Tree Small Village” features a towering tree with an inviting natural bridge extending from the trunk. The flat, lower plateau of Vivek’s tree village appears to have been a split trunk that was cut down to make space for the town. Learn how to create a tree with a split trunk for your development purposes with our split tutorial.
IED Milano Student Group Project – Progetto Alarith
IED students’ utilized clever animations, dramatic sound design, and stylized environments in their captivating animated short. Create a gnarled tree like the one found at the center of, “Alarith,” with our hand-drawing tool.
Vladimir Lepotic – Avalon 2051
The foliage lining the abandoned road in, “Avalon 2051” is closing in, serving as a barrier around which the hover car’s masterful driver must navigate. Vladimir pays extra attention to mood and lighting in this UE4 scene. If you’re utilizing static light maps in your real-time engine, make sure to visit our docs on Lightmap UVs so that your foliage is optimized for your scene.
Hassan Nisar – Tropical Beach
Hassan’s breezy, “Tropical Beach,” is an incredible example of the realism that can be achieved combining SpeedTree and Megascans. After admiring the windy palm trees in his scene, build your confidence in your frond mastery with a quick trip to our docs!
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Blue Agave
(Cinema)
The succulents in Tran Ma’s, “Floral Crown,” remind us of our Blue Agave and its flowering stalk.
Coastal Live Oak
(Cinema)
While not built for a village, Vivek Chaurasia’s enormous tree in, “Giant Tree Small Village,” brings to mind our Coastal Live Oak, complete with spanish moss hanging from the branches of its elegant, shady canopy.
London Plane
(Cinema | Games)
The trees lining the roads of Vladimir Lepotic’s, “Avalon 2051,” remind us of our pollution tolerant London Plane, thriving in a strange and desolate future.
Coconut Palm
(Cinema | Games)
Our iconic coconut palms would feel right at home lining the shores of Hassan Nisar’s realistic, “Tropical Beach.”