After watching some wonderful tutorials by Alex Alvarez on creating plants in Maya's paint effects and rendering them in mental ray I figured I'd have some fun and create some of the plants I see in Sydney when bush walking. These Paint Effects plants have been converted to Polys and have been instanced along a poly plane.
I plan to keep growing a library of plants and trees so I can quickly make environments and animate them.
Here are two useful scripts....
1. The SpPaint Script
2. The Leaf UV Tool
Software Used - Maya, Mental Ray and After Effects.
Tests:
