Creating Simple Eevee Environments in Blender - Tutorial Series Part 1
Live Stream Host: Kent TrammellLet's start a summer Blender project 🏝
Simplistic stylized environments are great, visually appealing projects. There is so much to learn in this workflow!
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We are going to create our tropical Blender island
We will start by creating stylized tress (this video, part 1).
In part 2, we will create simple plants to add to our scene (watch part 2 here).
In part 3, we will create our beautiful sandy stylized beach (watch part 3 here).
Finally, in part 4, we will bring it all together and create our whole island scene (watch part 4 here).
Today, we are making these palm trees!
Here's the result of the 4-part tutorial series
Building simple, stylized environment assets
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.
Link-based Blender workflow
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.
Eevee for large scenes
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.
Practice the Last Samurai "No Mind" Principle for the streams Kent
Sweep the sand beneath the rug
Palm trees in the closet everyone
You're all a fantastic audience. Thanks for joining! Till next week 👋
Ok I'll keep that in mind
angelwitch
Cool tut.. Don't speed up too much next time, I'm coming from 2.79 and haven't done any work in 2.8...
Have a good day everyone!
right on learning how to fix
Thanks for the stream
theluthier 😊
Bye everyone!
I do like these streams because I like to see the instructors make mistakes and then go through the problem-solving process, it's so much more educational than a video where the teacher does everything perfectly
this was great thank you so much
Thank you so much for the stream. Always nice with you all!!
Great stream! thank you!
nice
Kent - thanks for the stream. Can't wait to see the rest of the scene fill up!
Bye everyone and good day, cu Kenty
Great stream Kent! Thanks as always
Thanks for the stream! See you all
Thanks for the stream as always, Kent!
Great stream, Kent! Learned a lot!