Tutorial Preview - Designing and Animating a Birch Tree in Maya using Paint Effects
Tutorial Link:
http://cg.tutsplus.com/?p=21473
Trees, plants and other forms of vegetation can go a long way in adding additional detail and a level of believability to any scene. And what was once considered to be an extremely difficult, time consuming task, has been made considerably easier with advances in modeling tools such as Maya's Paint Effects.
Gone are the days of pushing and pulling verts in an attempt to create something believable, realistic trees can now be created extremely fast and efficiently directly inside Maya and they've never been easier to animate. In this lesson you'll learn how to do just that, as author Chandan Kumar walks you through the entire process of designing, texturing, shading, animating and rendering your very own birch tree inside of Maya.