Artistic Trees In Blender

[@Settiis]

I had absolutely no idea how to begin with modeling trees... now after 8 minutes, I think I'm ready to go. What a great tutorial.

[@dakotayocom7764]

Agreed! I feel like I could go build a bunch of trees and grass and have a little world of my own in an hour! In fact I think I will.

[@eggeggington606]

@@dakotayocom7764 how did it go?

[@DanielGrovePhoto]

Man tutorials like these remind me that Blender is incredible and a true artistic tool. Thank you for sharing these amazing tips!! I'm a scifi guy but now I want to go and make a fantasy scene landscape!

[@bangtangirl5900]

Me too, I'm a sci-fi guy😍 I love making futuristic things

[@smdgroup2044]

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[@localfriendlycloud7720]

Even microsoft paint can be artistic if you are willing enough

[@narun23]

dude did i just discover your channel and it is amazing. it takes a lot of courage to start a tutorial channel but I love it and you're doing great. and its one of the best feeling to find a small tutorial channel that too for blender coz u find so many new things and u see how other people approach art and 3D and I love it. keep up the good work.

[@vilgotisaksson3443]

It all works perfectly until I tried to add materials I don’t seem to under stand how to add the texture? can you explain how you added the bark texture from texture haven?

[@HerrDoktorWeberMD]

learning about the skin modifier is a game changer, I've been psyching myself out about trees and now it's just this dang easy!

[@The3DCubeS]

If your planning on not doing any kind of animation, you can plug the camera output instead of object. It basicaly projects the texture from the camera to the object

[@gatofuji7410]

Ooooh. I lost my breath. Fantastic. I have been doing some tutorials on making trees and every one is different from the other. Quite a wonderous journey. THIS tutorial, in particular, is one of the best, if not the best one I did so far.

[@Ash_18037]

That tip for the array modifier on the branches was a new one for me and very useful, thanks. The leaves approach you used was not very good though, it creates stupidly large leaves in proportion to the tree and only looks at all decent from a long way away. A far better approach is to create the 'leaf' in a similar way, but then create a displaced sphere (using a noise texture) and add a particle system with the leaf as the render object, and set to 'volume' This creates many smaller leaves inside the volume, that can then be duplicated and added to branches where it makes sense.

[@mrmeu3480]

But if it's for a game it might take a lot more ressources

[@jonasvirsila4179]

Question: How to apply physics to the leaves? Such as implementing in Unity and adding wind physic to the leaves.

[@exorcist3d99]

Can keyframe the texture on a displace modifier, shape keys would also work.. I'm sure there are many more ways as well i'm forgetting

[@knightguy2699]

You don't use physics here, you animated it

[@blenderer3191]

you dont need a vector node for scale, use value node instead, since it's uniform, the number. And for leaves mix it with translucent shader, not subsurface. It's more accurate for foliage... i use cycles, no clue if Eevee supports translucent?

[@tobinloveday]

It does, you just have to switch the blend mode to alpha blend in the material's settings.

[@reubengecko]

Your channel is criminally underrated, keep up the hard work!

[@fabianogama39]

This is exactly what I needed to my project. The scenes with trees were in stand by untill I found a way to improve the trees I had there, but wasn't looking good.

[@liamrogers9393]

I would love to see a tutorial on your painting in photoshop on top of the blender scene! It really brings its to life!

[@Pertev777]

This tutorial is just awesome in almost every way. Until the part with the Remesh modifier came and again crashed blender. The remesh modifier is my nemesis :(

[@stylie473joker5]

XD

[@vorrdegard2176]

There is a program called instaremesh light n free

[@micmacha]

This is quite possibly the best tree tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you.

[@DaaronIrwing]

yes, but he skipped second par

[@abuloly2690]

07:02 .. How did the green link take out the top of the material output?

[@SimoneBattaglia94]

Lovely! Maybe the only thing I'd add is normal editing into a sphere the normals of the leaves to hide the clustering and rough low poly shading.

[@CriticalGiants]

We actually made a version with that, but we are saving it for another tutorial ;) but it looks awesome!

[@lornemclean]

@@CriticalGiants hi is there a link to that video?

[@laneczora1780]

Another great tool for making plant base structures is the built in Ivy Generator. I even saw the RIOTGEAR guy make lightning with it, given the natural randomness along curves that it generates. Used in tandem with this method, I see some pretty slick trees in my future!

[@GoronTico]

I love this tutorial. Simple for begginers, and full of tricks for intermediate users!

[@Doubleaa500]

Only the best do tutorials like this!! The way you are "doing it" as opposed to telling how it's done... its hard to explain, but you are someone who is very easy to learn from!! Thank you!!

[@campfriend2749]

This is probably the easiest tutorial on blender trees... yet the most rewarding!

[@sidhadhbinu560]

quick quick ! you forgot to show how you made the leaves "move". Please share the technique used, it looked so neat and realistic. ; )

[@CriticalGiants]

Modifier-> Wave -> Animate boom.

[@sidhadhbinu560]

@@CriticalGiants wow!! thanksssss a lot. ill try that.

[@CowboyBoomBoomSlim]

Amazing tutorial! It's great to see how easy it really is to create unique-looking trees while completely avoiding the tree plugin. One minor tip though. For me, it was a little bit difficult to what you were saying near the end of the video. Perhaps you could try to articulate a little bit more clearly in your future videos? But yeah, absolutely great stuff!

[@MoritzAK]

NICE! Awsome Tutorial. Exactly what i was looking for, for a few years ^^. I could only find realistic tree Tutorials (with tree generators) or lowpoly tutorials, but nothing more stylized or for (animated)conceptarts where you have more controll. Thank you and keep it up :D

[@tusharkashyap2431]

If anyone having problem of weird mesh after applying skin modifier then just go to edit mode select all vertices (a) and then ctrl a like he did at 1:10

[@grproteus]

the singular of "vertices" is "vertex". love the tutorial.

[@colejohnson5699]

either is acceptable

[@captaincrispy2184]

I love the channel content, I love the tutorial, I love your personality. It's just such a blessing to be a part of this community.

[@standlethemandle]

Where did you get that leaf texture!!! I can't find it anywhere...

[@ellysiancode]

Entertaining and very insightful - thank you!

[@hdouirgzz9m687]

extremely useful and easy to follow tutorial

[@QuantayPeoples]

3d programs are the ultimate hack for painters who are trying to nail lighting vs shadows.

[@cyrotek3518]

Damnit, how did I never realize this combination of modifiers for something like that.

[@Jay0neDE]

I tried creating trees myself for 2 hours, didn't go anywhere. then 5 seconds into the video I see the old plane to one vertex thing and went "of course!!!". this is so much faster than trying to glue cubes together

[@fro0714]

question from a blemder newbie. how did the texture images popped up like they did in the materials part? did u add them already? and how i make them appear in the shader editor? hopefully this will be amswered

[@dig333]

I think it comes from the Viewer node but i'm not sure

[@arbasss]

Image textures doesn't work on the merged cube.

[@marinamaximchuk4859]

amazing! thank you for this tutorial ❤❤❤🎉😊

[@satyamanu2211]

Subscribed for the background music 😂👍

[@SVisionary]

Friendly reminder to new modelers here. If you're looking to make these for say - game design, you're going to need to learn how to convert the UV's into a proper flowing texture map. You'll notice that he's using a Zed or tri-planar texture projection which is why the texture doesn't flow along the branches. Still, for just getting your foot in the door in understanding how you could make a simple tree, this is an excellent start.

[@sydney19931]

I love your channel! I can't count the times you've uploaded a video that has blown my mind or completely helped me out with projects! Thank you :D

[@roselightmoon]

That was amazing, wow. This is even better than tree sappling. I'm wondering if it would be possible to add the leaves through a particle system on the branches instead?

[@drumboarder1]

Of course you could using weight painting or vertex groups but it seems like that would take about as long as just copying them a handful of times

[@VMP666]

Fuuuuuuck finally some good tree tutorials! I can't goddamn stand those Mtree and other usal suspects trees, and most people make those tutorials like they've never even seen a tree;) thank you, looks great!

[@RevolverPicturesYT]

In 2015 I was taught in a college course to box model trees and leaves. I saw you make a better tree than I ever made in 2 minutes.

[@hugemonkey38]

ended up with 55 million tris only great tutorial!

[@FrankCappello_official]

There is no vector math node in 3.3 now. I guess they moved it to the geometry nodes but can't use that in normal nodes.

[@WalrusesAreTheOne]

How are you extruding up? I;m already stuck at 0:25..

[@andrasbogar-szabo4722]

Awesome Stuff! Can you tell me please how you made the render have that painted effect?

[@CriticalGiants]

The painted effect was made in photoshop

[@aiden_obj]

Your workflow of making the scene in blender, and then painting over it in photoshop is really interesting, I'll have to try it out!

[@EzLevi]

Im switching to blender and this is really helpful :D

[@kadugbuss]

First video i found that teach how to actually make a tree instead of using an automated addon

[@nagysamuel2575]

Holy crap, thank you

[@BlackLeg_Sanji]

This tutorial is very useful if u guys watch it in 0.75xSpeed

[@infamia_aoe4965]

Really helpful, thanks!

[@yurazah]

any idea why this tree slows down blender so much? i have a rx6800xt is it shouldn't be demanding at all...

[@OlegVaganov]

where did you learn about cntr+a hotkey in edit mode? I read skin modifier article on official web site, but there is nothing about cntl+a

[@AGKyran]

Waaaa... My life is changed !

[@yassboss8172]

Hey, I have a problem with the texturing with the texture not showing. I made sure I did it correctly, but it still doesn't work.

[@LuizAlleman]

Your narration style reminds me of Scamboli Reviews

[@hund1267]

nice and on point

[@RugsRabbit]

this channel is so bussy can’t believe i just found it

[@LaszloIvanyi]

There a re a lot of interesting stuff in this, good video. But I don't like your bark texture. Especially n the later warped trees, I see that the texture goes straight up instead of following the tree. I think it would be a better approach to just make a lower poly version and a higher re-mesh, perhaps sculpt it a bit and then bake details over in SP and apply a material there. That way the texture would follow the tree better. I know you made this for concept art so rough shape and colour is enough, I came to this from gamedev perspective. I'll check this later to see how I can make it game-ready instead of paint ready. :-)

[@finechoco1222]

i like ur tutorial, hey why i dont have randomize option in edit mode ?

[@vanziers]

This person is similar to Ian Hubert but more calming

[@markecgazda3880]

Some are sad and some are weird hahahaha awesome tutorial!!

[@artecno882]

I dont know when rotated axis dont make array some suggestion?

[@astrogames8645]

I've been searching for hours but I can't find a single image with a transparent background

[@campfriend2749]

that because it (technically) doesnt exist. You will not find a transparent background in google images. You might be able to find a download of it, but there wont be as much variety. If you dont have photoshop, than you might want to do what I do. You go to a site called 'photopea'. Import your photo and in the left bar, go to rectangle select (press m). If you have done that successfully, right click on you image. It should say 'magic cut' as one of the options. click that, and it should automatically try to separate the image from the background. Use the tools to fine tune, export, and there you go!

[@sandick999]

Bro, why when i add subdivision surface modifier its become just a line? Please answer

[@roxanneparis3770]

Is there a fix for the side being stretched? I leaned the tree but as result the part that had to stretch to make the lean now doesn't match the rest of the texture

[@kumarsaurabh9216]

Thanks! Great tutorial. It helps beginners much better than CG Geek's video.

[@DeveloperAdri]

the array modifier is confusing it makes the copy bigger than the original

[@giorgilezhava1877]

can you show us how you workinphotoshop how you get that painty look

[@robert-brydson-1]

when i do the object on an select the empty i get a second larger tree ?

[@shark779]

I'm having a problem after I had applied the array my original tree disappears. I think it is because of the remesh, but I don't know how to fix it.

[@nikadams8091]

This tutorial is incredible! Thank you.

[@mareksierocinski]

I'm just learning Blender, but this technique is just mind-blowing! Keep in good work!

[@avekatten3207]

As someone new to blender, why does everyone skip 5:47? How do i add the defuse...

[@benjaminespuche9734]

This tutorial is punching me !

[@MrSmileyPVC]

Can you use this same UV Mapping in Unity without unwrapping? I've been looking everywhere, and I can't find a video that explains how to use the Texture Coordinates and Mapping here in Blender and exporting so it shows the same in Unity

[@lentar]

so have you found? I have the same problem:(

[@draesounds]

any suggestions when Remesh crashes blender? I've got a Ryzen 9 & 64GB of RAM and this thing still crashes

[@julian7434]

0:42 how do you do that?

[@ShiftK]

I managed to do it by clicking R, then left-clicking. Then in the bottom left corner, open the "Rotate" tab and enable "Proportional Editing". Then change the Angle value. There's probably a better way of doing this but I can't find the hotkey he used.

[@degreerust]

What do you do if the material won't apply to your object once you've input your material "jpeg"?

[@camilosalvadorbatho]

Keep it up! Amazing tutorial!

[@mist9036]

why when i use the skin modifier it only puts the modifier on the top of the tree

[@thelastbandito4778]

when I add a skin mod it doesn't actually make the the tree thicker. anybody know what I am doing wrong?

[@aesthetixstudio]

Finally after a year I found what I was looking for...

[@Black_Sheep-01]

hi, how can I carve into the tree with my sculpting tools?

[@LovelyBigga]

which texture did you use

[@ClaudioMalagrino]

Compact tutorial, with lots of useful information without the usual BS. Thank you!

[@raincale7985]

This is an excellent method for creating trees thank you. I find however that the remesh ends up lagging me quite a bit and I can never quite get it to work without making jagged glitchey topology

[@alexandere8415]

7:03 what button did he press to get the viewport node to show up

[@yeshacroe9354]

hi i have problems that when i am finish with array and the tree is already rotated, i then go and wanna edit but when i go edit mode i cant click on the vertices its like its paused why is that??

[@rejoininghottako3861]

Dude I loved your way of talking and overexposing thoughts XD

[@YuukiArt-94]

I have to use the Industry Standard option as thats what i learned in school and regular blender makes no sense to me. How do i do the scaling on the ends with industry standard???

[@CriticalGiants]

I have taught many people who used to use the industry standard way, and everyone who switches doesn't go back, as it just makes sense for blender, I reccomend trying to get used to the blender way as opposed to using industry standard, in the long run it will be worth it (I was also taught industry standard first through maya at university)

[@YuukiArt-94]

@CriticalGiants I found out how to switch it back to blender standard. It makes sense to learn it since all the tutorials are using it too.

[@mudassirali3209]

Your Skills are Amazing. Do you have other learning materials too

[@WW_Studios]

How can I say this... this is so helpful! Best tut I've seen in a long time!

[@lekavolt7820]

This is awesome!!

[@AsaCarson]

Where do i get the leaves from

[@andreiamendes5449]

Here i was, modeling my own leaves, this guy just uses a png... well played

[@lornemclean]

Great tutorial. When I select all of the leaves and (CTRL + J) to join them some of the textures get stretched. How did you group and move then without Joining them. Please explain!

[@tihomirdanailov1912]

Just i needed! Thx. 👍🏼

[@CriticalGiants]

No problem!

[@NICK....]

I have been searching for something like this for days, thanks!

[@CriticalGiants]

Glad it was helpul!