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.
can someone tell me why I keep losing my texture, even tho I saved it over n over?
Yes that's the one, from John Denver. Then I went into Wikipedia to read on the man and wow, kinda tragic
Yes indeed! Supposedly the full official release will be 1 to 2 weeks after the RC.
WOOT! 2.8 has been a long time coming
Two days until the 2.8 release candidate drops....
I see
I say employment to make the difference between work and a job
Yes a two-week vacation does sound grand
Oh okay - glad to see I misunderstood. :)
Kent, you are from West Virginia, right? because that song appeared on my YouTube and I remembered people here singing it
No no, I've been on that job for 11 years now, I'm on a 2 week vacation
I brought the coffee!
no sugar or creamer tho you'll have to add that yourselves :P
Why not? it is actually really good
That doesn't sound like the good kind of vacation
I am on vacation from employment
I do have cookies here
But do you have cookies? Today I brought knock-off Thin Mints that taste just as good.