Create an animated digital landscape with photorealistic effects using VUE. Learn about modeling natural materials, lighting, keyframing, and rendering the animation.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Setting application options
- Choosing display options
- Importing a model
- Framing the camera shot
- Sculpting a terrain
- Adding water
- Scattering plants
- Populating with the EcoSystem Painter
- Directing sunlight
- Editing atmosphere parameters
- Adding a cloud layer
- Editing a cloud function
- Filtering cloud density
- Controlling exposure
- Managing materials
- Editing materials
- Material nodes in the Function Graph
- Adding node outputs with a Combiner
- Creating a gradient color map
- Fine-tuning with a Slope Filter
- Bump mapping
- Displacement mapping
- Compositing mixed materials
- Auto-keyframing in the Timeline
- Manual keyframing
- Function curve editing in the Animation Graph
- Rendering a preview
- Adding wind to plants
- Adding cloud wind
- Keyframing the atmosphere
- Setting Render options
- Rendering animation
- Next steps
Taught by
Aaron F. Ross
