Máté Dömötör

Checked Marta Feriani's work and I've found it astounding. It is not the approach I'm thinking of, but still a very nice thing to learn about.

The lightning branching seems to be a quite nice solution for creating the splits in the branches, I might use few ideas from it in the future.

That reference image is awesome, helps me a lot with understanding the patterns of leaf size and rotation.

Thank you for your advice!

Hey,

I started working on a procedural Ivy Tool for Film VFX purposes. I looked into available resources to begin this journey and find theProject Titan Ivy Tool [www.sidefx.com]which seems like a really good. I was following the principles for their pipeline but started adding my own elements. There is a few differences I want to tackle as I progress further with this project:

• Create Procedural Materials for both the Ivy and Leaves, Flowers.
  
• Create proper Growth animation, with Leaves and Flowers Blooming.
  
• Optional Goal: Export it as a tool for usage in Maya.
  

Subtasks I'm working on:

• Finding a way to merge the different sources of base ivy mesh to have it prepared for the growth.
  
• Create the growth control for the ivy with one attribute.
  
• Add procedural flower generation.
  
• Tweak Leaf generation to have more detail (currently placeholder).
  
• Leaf and Flower bloom control with separated rigs.
  
• Create material for Ivy (MaterialX).
  
• Create material for leaves and flower (MaterialX).
  

Any experience or critique is more than welcome regarding this project. Both for the generation of the meshes and the materials itself.
I will keep updating this thread as I progress with the project hopefully until completion.

Current State:





Thanks for your feedbacks!
~Máté Dömötör