Simplistic stylized environments are great, visually appealing projects. There is so much to learn in this workflow!
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In part 1, we created stylized tress (watch part 1 here).
In part 2, we made simple plants to add to our scene (watch part 2 here).
In part 3 (this video), we will create our beautiful sandy stylized beach (watch part 3 here).
Finally, in part 4 (this video), we will bring it all together and create our whole island scene.
Above all, this style is super FUN to create. Their simplicity is not only appealing to look at, but it also enables for faster creation compared to their photo-real counterparts.
Environments are perfect for using Blender's linking system. The idea being that we create individual .blends for each asset then link them into a new .blend where we assemble the overall environment by duplicating the linked assets and placing them appropriately. The benefit with this is that any changes we want to make to the individual asset .blend files will be applied to the assembly containing links accordingly. It's a crucial function for working on complex scenes like this.
More often I see Eevee being used for singular objects like characters, vehicles, or small contained environments (sci-fi corridors and single-rooms). So we're going to figure out how to make Eevee work for large-scale scenes.
Till Linux Luke broke in to my cell dressed as a storm trooper and liberated me.
I definitely was. Till I broke free with Linux Luke
Yeah Mac users are.....very attached to their ecosystem of choice.
Wayne Dixon is having glitches and bugs galore with 2.8, including the RC. A lot of things aren't reproducible for me. I'm not sure I have the heart to tell him it might be his hackintosh..
Phil, that is great news about Blender receiving 1.2 million dollars/euros grant.
Only a few days until the full official release!
The RC has been good so far, I've only noticed one problem with it
Cool to weird new people out I suppose.
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