Creating Realistic Vegetation and Foliage with XGen and RenderMan

XGen's versatility combined with Renderman's new shading and lighting is a match made for high-quality setting design. In this course, you will get to see the process of creating a forest using XGen and Renderman.

XGen is one of the most versatile tools available for object instancing and propagation. In this course, Creating Realistic Vegetation and Foliage with XGen and RenderMan, you will get to use XGen for set dressing of a forest inside Maya 2017. Additionally, you are going to render the forest using Renderman 21 and its new shading and lighting system. Finally, you will see how to composite the forest with NukeX using deep compositing. After completing this course, you will be better prepared to create your own CG forests.

• Course Overview 1min
• Project Overview and Initial Scene 41mins
• Assets: Rocks Creation 23mins
• Assets: Trees Creation 33mins
• Set Dressing Using XGen: Rocks 43mins
• Forest Propagation with XGen: Trees 45mins
• Lighting the Forest 46mins
• Compositing the Final Image 63mins