environmental design

The environment for our animation we thought was very important we wanted it to have a very appealing and fitting design. After a few ideas about how the trees should look we did a test piece to see how they could possible look and whether our idea would work in 3D. James modelled the tree from the designs and I then took the UV's from it to do test textures.

I was unsure what would work but I knew it should be a little different we wanted it to be pretty but still fit in the blocky world (whilst not looking like minecraft) I drew a few test textures to wrap round the tree then we could compare to see how they all looked.

Once we'd settled on a pattern I made it for the entire tree UV and wrapped it on to give the result below. We were both very happy with this test and will definitely be using the design in the animation.