Nature Academy Part 1

I took part in Blender Guru's Nature Academy online training course. Nature Academy It concentrates, as the name suggests, in creating realistic nature scenes in Blender. I've learned some quite useful new tools and also learned to do compositing in Blender which I haven't really done before.

Due to school projects I haven't managed to finish every course in time, but luckily that isn't a problem since all the tutorials can be viewed at any time. There's also rather good collection of pre-made objects to use to add more variety your scenes, although I prefer to model my own.

Anyway, here's the results so far :) I'll post part 2 once I have time to complete rest of the course.

Grassy field. Practiced using hair particles to create grass.

Gone fishing. Fog effect and ripply water surface

Ocean. Larger waves. This looks much better when animated, but haven't had the time to render it.

Plants. Lots of plants. Practiced modeling various plants and used ivy generator.

Rocky coastline. These rocks are really nice. There's practically endless variations of them. These are really dense meshes, but could easily be baked into low poly rocks.

Mountains. Practiced using ANT landscape generator to create... mountains! and also created snow / stone mix material.