Create a complete 3D Animation- C2- Environment Animation

Name: Create a complete 3D Animation- C2- Environment Animation
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Chapter 02: Learn how to create an animated environment in 3DS Max & Vray

Created byALAOUCHICHE Abdelhamid

Last updated 10/2021

English

What you'll learn

Create an animated environment for your character
Kitbaching an environment using 3DS Max & Vray
Animate cloud of bats with a realistic behavior
Integrate a crawling insect, butterfly into the scene

Course content

6 sections • 21 lectures • 3h 39m total length

Add the terrain11:30
Learn terrain creation for a complete 3D animation environment by using pre-made assets, refining displacement, roughness maps, and albedo textures with HDR lighting.
Populate the scene with background pumpkins4:17
Populate the scene with background pumpkins by importing free models, reducing poly count with Pro Optimizer, and placing varied pumpkins to enhance the environment in 3d animation.
Introduction to Vray hair and fur for grass4:17
Explore how to create grass with Vray hair and fur, adjusting length, thickness, gravity, and color, then render previews and refine with geometry painting and randomization.
Manage the scene - Animating the camera - Adding the atmosphere12:49
Populate the scene and push it further5:50
Select low-poly assets and animated characters for a night-mode scene, using insects as lighting fillers and instances to save memory, while keeping a consistent scale and layered rocks.

Adding the crawling insect13:31
Tweaking the crawling insect9:35
Tweak the crawling insect by adjusting the center pivot, applying a bend modifier, and refining the bending angles to achieve a smoother, more believable crawl.
Adding the crow & Planning the scene animations8:15
Position the crow and crew, create an animation layer for flight, and group the mesh to avoid double transformations while planning bats later.

Tyflow basics25:57
Particles VS Physics nodes12:23
Convert objects to particles, compare particle and rigid dynamics, and control gravity, collisions, friction, and time-based events to craft interactive 3d environment animations.
Spawn-Voronoi-MaterID-Slow and Force32:04
Explore spawning and voronoi fracture workflows to create fractures, assign material IDs, and control slow motion and forces like gravity and wind for dynamic collisions in 3d environment animation.

Import the animated background insect9:41
Import and animate a dragonfly background insect to light the scene, looping a 19-frame motion with time flow, and apply texture; organize the Maya outliner and resolve mesh light issues.
TyFlow - Animating the background insects9:54
Create a TyFlow workflow to animate background insects by naming the flow, adding shapes and instance materials, and tweaking speed, particle counts, and forces for a lively scene.
TyFlow - background insect optimization6:32
Explore TyFlow background insect optimization by culling insects outside the camera view with a bounding box, surface tests, and kill actions to reduce calculations while previewing the scene.
Import the animated bat6:11
Learn how to import an animated bat in blender, export the model, and set up the armature and skinning while adjusting geometry, materials, and camera for a smooth 10-frame loop.
TyFlow - Animating the cloud of bats5:49
Create a dynamic cloud of bats using TyFlow, grouping the mesh, building a flow, applying a preset, and looping ten frames with random variations for natural motion.
Adding life to the could of bats10:57
Choreograph a stylized bat swarm by setting a target and tuning velocity and distance to achieve believable following from the camera view.

Animating the butterfly prey5:47
Animate the butterfly prey within a complete 3d environment by adjusting background animation, chase speed, and glow materials to create a dynamic, engaging scene.
Animating The dying bat 016:51
Animating The dying bat 029:13
Explore integrating dynamic simulation with animation in a 3D environment, using path constraints, motion paths, and frame-by-frame techniques to depict a bat scene with fire effects and timed rotations.

Requirements

Be familiar with 3DS Max

Description

In this course you learn about the whole workflow starting from a concept to a finished sequence using industry standard packages. The techniques used in this course are suitable for small to medium studios. The software used are :Zbrush to create the model , Maya for Rigging and Animation while I used 3DS Max for VFX and rendering.

Each chapter can be watched separately. so you can jump between chapters at your ease.

Chapter 02: Environment Kitbaching - Implementing the animated characters in 3DS Max

Knowing that every project has a deadline, It is impossible to model every object yourself especially for such a huge project. To surpass this problem we rely on kitbashing using free models from the internet.

We use kitbaching to create a suitable environment for our main character and you are free to come up with your own environment that suits your scene. For our scene is kinda "bittersweet" so we go for a nighty forest with some grass, rocks & some insects...

TyFlow was used to simulate the background swarm of insects and also to simulate the cloud of bats. Several techniques were tested to achieve a satisfying (stylish-realistic) behavior for the animated insects / bats.
Concerning the butterfly & the crawling insects we had to manually integrate them into the scene. Various techniques were used to achieve that.

You will learn very valuable techniques that can be used widely and you will be comfortable animating any swarm of “sth” and integrate different type of insects for your future scenes.

Who this course is for:

3D artists who are looking to push their skills to the next level
3D artists who are looking to learn how to build an environment using kitabashing

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Course content

Working on the environment props5 lectures • 39min

Integrating the Animations into the scene3 lectures • 31min

Introduction to TyFlow3 lectures • 1hr 10min

Animation with TyFlow6 lectures • 49min

Animating the butterfly & the falling bat3 lectures • 22min

Export the animation to Maya1 lecture • 8min

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