Presentations

Below is the presentation my group created to show our progress so far.

 

Creating the base mesh

This week I also began creating the base mesh for my tree. I started by trying to use meatball in blender to create my tree but I found I was unable to make the tree hollow. I then moved to Maya and was able to start making the basic shape. Below shows how far I’ve gotten.

So far I feel the tree looks good and Im happy with the roots and the general shape of it. Using Maya allowed me to easily make the hollow and make twisty roots and branches however I still have to add more branches and leaves. In order to help me design the tree I used one of my concept drawings as a reference image for the shape and in order to scale the tree correctly I put in a model of a human.  I also looked at many images of willow trees and types of long twisting roots. I focused on the root shapes, bark types and shapes of cracks in tree. Below are the references I used.

 

In order to help me know what to do next I decided to write out my pipeline.