Trees

[glorybound]

Any clue what trees these are? I am a fan of his work.

http://www.d-e-s-i-g-n.ru/facades/seriya41.htm

[jacksc02]

ummmm no picture?

[jujubee]

Very nice.

Some of those trees look washed however. Also, he has some sky clipping issues in the last image lol.

Overall, those trees are most excellent!

[bakbek]

Re: Trees

Any clue what trees these are? I am a fan of his work.

http://www.d-e-s-i-g-n.ru/facades/seriya41.htm

i think most of them are onyx trees, maybe some xfrogs

[Neilg]

What trees you use doesnt matter nearly as much as colour balancing the leaves and making them sit into your scene right.

His models arent bad, but its the balance thats making them good.

[flino2004]

they look like xfrog to me

[glorybound]

Trees

I guess I could e-mail him and report back. I haven't had luck with x-frog. I have spent so much money on trees... I can never get anything to look as good as some of the images I see. The last tree library I bought was NatFX, but I rarely use them. They are cool because each tree you add grows differently and you can prune, but the final render isn't so great. I guess like anything it is the artist and not the software that makes a good image.

flino2004,

your avatar irritates my ADD

[gilpo]

Bobby,
We use Onyx here. It really is more about the person using the program than it is the program itself. It took us about a good year to really get good with the program. We still haven't mastered making low-poly conifers that look good, but have pretty much got flowers, shrubs and broad leaf trees down.

The thing that's nice about Onyx over X-frog or NatFX is that there is no limit to the number or types of trees you can generate. No purchasing additional collections or 'seeds' to get a different tree. But you do have to do some good research and get good photos of the trees you want to model and spend some time learning Onyx's clunky interface. Also, you're not stuck with whatever poly count the company decides to give you. You can constantly tune and tweak branch and leaf density to get down (or up) to a level you need. Then you can save the settings and generate an unlimited number of unique 'seeds' of that general plant style for variation.

But, also, like an earlier post said, the main reason those look so good in that site you posted is texturing and balance.

[mikeh]

Bobby,
We use Onyx here. .....and spend some time learning Onyx's clunky interface. .

Amen to the comment on onyx's interface. You would think after getting complaints year after year they might change things but all i see on their end is either laziness or the "you don't like it then go some where else" attitude.
I create new trees by modeling them from photos i download from internet searches. Onyx is only half of the equation, i do the other half of the modeling and texturing in max.(i detach onyx leaves and use scatter to replace them...the onyx leaves are the scatter object.) Onyx, for all their posturing, only takes you part of the way to a final tree.
mh

[glorybound]

Detail

If I had to work on something it would be paying more attention to detail. I would never spend hours modeling a tree when I can plop one in from a library, but that is what probably separates the smucks like me and the higher end stuff I am seeing here.

[gilpo]

I guess we look at it as creating a library for future and continued use. We will make around 5-10 new plants for every project (sometimes more if the client requests) and we keep using them over and over.

[glorybound]

Trees

Can you link me to some of your images that show off your tree?