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.
Jack Bauer
I'm still working on the previous stream at the tree, blender keeps crashing with all of those leaves
Hey all!
Hello everyone!
😅
And there she goes, as if a wave took her
Flip fluids is really great. Easily the best fluid sim option in Blender by far
Have a good day Tanya!
See ya Tanya
Best of luck, Tayna! Happy blending 👋
Is flip fluids worth it? Now really gotta go. Thanks!!1
figures, but that is what I would really like to do. Gotta go, thanks again for the streams, l read the comments as I follow along. Been to Hawaii once, ocean was unbelievable.
Haha you need to AAA team of Disney artists that made Moana for that to be the case, Omar
Yeah that FLIP fluids is something else too - but oh so complicated to set up.
It's a first-hand glimpse into how tricky the effect is
Ay ay I thought that intro in the video was the render
Oh wait, speaking of Grant, he did post this video a little while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWhPJmfLzNo&feature=youtu.be
You need to go to Hawaii Tanya
For the ocean I would just animate the vornoi texture that I will setup for the bump in today's stream. But actual ocean waves crashing against the sand..that's one of the hardest things to do in CG period.
I am after surfing size waves