Animating a Landscape with VUE

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

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