This YouTube video is what led me to creating my two tree models, of course I changed the shape and textures and what not, but the basic skills and techniques came from this video. Though to be honest the person that made this video, did a lot more than what was shown, but I got the gist of it. Nodes and the Shader area still give me trouble, and honestly I never like going to that area as I always feel confused and not sure what I am doing is right. But I created trees and really that’s my high point out of all of this.

Now I actually had a problem with these leaves. At the beginning, they weren’t transparent and I needed them to be transparent, and it frustrated me a lot because I thought I was doing things right for them to be transparent. Eventually got what I wanted, but the process of getting there was a pain. Also learnt about ‘vertex group’ and ‘hair’ when working with the leaves. Very handy those two but it did cause my laptop to freeze up a couple of times.

This, these, these things. I want to stay away from these things, makes me nervous.