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Animating a Landscape with VUE

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Create an animated digital landscape with photorealistic effects using VUE. Learn about modeling natural materials, lighting, keyframing, and rendering the animation.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Setting application options
  • Choosing display options
1. Scene Layout
  • Importing a model
  • Framing the camera shot
  • Sculpting a terrain
  • Adding water
  • Scattering plants
  • Populating with the EcoSystem Painter
2. Lighting
  • Directing sunlight
  • Editing atmosphere parameters
  • Adding a cloud layer
  • Editing a cloud function
  • Filtering cloud density
  • Controlling exposure
3. Materials
  • 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
4. Animation and Rendering
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Aaron F. Ross

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