Growing Foliage Animation

[Claudio Branch]

Has anyone out there ever done or seen an animation sequence showing trees, grass, and plants growing?

[pentool]

These are quite nice:

 

Growing Trees

 

Blossoming Flowers

 

 

You can find some more animations on www.xfrog.com. Unfortunately, they are scattered over the site in various places so you need to hunt for them.

[BillyElNino]

We've had a go in the office in Cinema 4D with scaling and deformers...It does not produce the effect of organic sped up 'growing' though... More of an appearing and springing into place.

[Claudio Branch]

Getting the grass to grow with V-Ray Fur turns out to be pretty straightforward. Now I need to get a little wind blowing it around.

 

I've tried Wind and Noise and now I am working on adding a Noise Float controller in the Curve Editor to modulate the Fur modifiers' gravity value.

 

Beam me up Scotty...

[alias_marks]

would love to see some examples and workflow when you get somthing you'd like to share.

[Claudio Branch]

would love to see some examples and workflow when you get somthing you'd like to share.

 

Oh most definately.

 

Using the Noise Floater to push around the gravity value has been working, but every single blade of grass is synchronized so you get the affect of a porcupine strung out on Starbucks.