Creating Simple Eevee Environments - Part 3
Live Stream Host: Kent TrammellLet's continue our summer Blender project. In this tutorial, we are making our beach 🏝️
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
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.
Finally, in part 4, we will bring it all together and create our whole island scene (watch part 4 here).
Today, we are creating this sandy beach with waves
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.
Hey Michal
Hello hello!
Hello everyone just joining!
!! try not to go to start up too fast at first I gotta go set up at the coffee shop x)
I really liked The Rock when I was a kid, the movie I mean, with Sean and Cage
hi all
Hi spike
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Hi everybody!
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Rendering is going good. Thanks for all the help. I'm thinking of making a small video with the results so far
Don't get confused, he doesn't men Dwayn Johnson
ah damn i haven't started on the rock
cool Omar, hows the rendering going?
Sorry but I'm trying to simulate a chain falling to the ground, but my chain links simply keep breaking in mid-air. Does anyone know why?
I think you can watch Sheyla
have to get used that enter doesn't post immediately lol
Been working on CG courses really hard recently, thank you for all the knowledge Kent! My goal is to make nice appealing and simple models, but the courses are getting a bit complicated, so I can't wait to watch this stream and watch some simpler workflows!