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dwsel:
I started a little animated scene. I plan to make matte painted background (island) with some animated trees composited in the scene. So far I have raw background rendered in Bryce and environment map for the tree (used as temporary backdrop in the video, but not casting light on the palm yet) and a chopped into pieces model of the tree (got from here: http://www.gfx-3d-model.com/2008/12/palm-tree-model/ ) animated by me with expressions.

WiP animation of tree here :D:


Waiting for your critiques and comments ;)

EDIT:
v2 with more natural movement:

cooldude234:
The tree looks nicely rendered but movement of the trunk is too free (it looks like jello being shaken), and the leaves don't move at all, which if anything were to move they'd be the first thing.

Raxx:
Looks very nice dwsel. I'm not 100% familiar with palm trees w/ wind, so I can't say a whole lot, but your v2 looks very natural. Just one comment that may or may not be true: the trunk has a lot of movement for such a solid object versus the palm leaves. Perhaps for that much movement of the trunk, the leaves should look like there's 4x the wind going through them, in one direction.

dwsel:
@cello95:
I've got 'Leaf26' image in diffuse and bump (-100) channel, and 'Leaf26_o' in specular and transparency. Images were in the archive with the model. I just converted them to *.bmp.

@cooldude234, @Raxx:
Thanks for your comment folks! I see what you mean. I have another version in works - the one with more steady trunk and bendy leaves. Currently they're only rotating around their pivot point near the top of the tree with high frequency (thus shivering). I've already made high noise morph for each frond (that is used with quite high frequency) and I plan to make another morph for each that will be following major low frequency movement of the trunk. Also I need to find good references of similar species.

I really wish EVERYTHING was ASL-scripted. At the start I attempted to rig the palm only to find out that bones can't be animated with expressions yet.

cooldude234:
Your version 2 looks a lot better, cant wait to see more!

And yea, if everything was in asl script, it can help with the organization of things (IE you can animate way more trees automatically instead of having to waste time doing it manually)

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