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Originally Posted by ea6b607
I'm going to have to disagree on this with you buddy. It's quite simple to make good looking trees in not a whole lot of time (about an hour). Here is a great tutorial for it http://3dm3.com/tutorials/tree/ I will warn that they can get pretty high poly so keep that in mind. |
Yes, you can make a really nice looking tree, I never said that you couldn't. But you must take into account if it is worth it. Do you really want your computer to spend more than an hour rendering out the bunch of trees in the background even when they are going to be blurred? Just look at some paintings, the artist could have spent hours making detailed trees in a painting but they don't, why? because they are not the central focus of the animation. You do not want to distract the viewers away from what is really important.
Now if your tree is in the foreground, or it is the central focus of the animation then by all means go nuts! If you want a to make a tree character or a shot of a specific tree that you want to show the viewers then pour as much detail into it as necessary, but the trees in the background should be basic. Because they are only background elements, that only add to the atmosphere of the scene.