It’s amazing the help you can get on a Blender project when you want to solve a problem. I wanted to create this old Australian Cottage. So I started with • Looking up various cottages on the internet • HOUSE STRUCTURE I wanted the boards to bend and for it to look real. Andrew Price has a brilliant tutorial on creating an abandoned house, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNnERnHRZg , so to create the basic structure I started with some of his techniques. • TEXTURES Many of the textures I used are from Extreme PBR addon for the wood textures but PolyHaven has many free textures. https://polyhaven.com/hdris/outdoor • SAPLING The Sapling is included in Blender • DECREASING NOISE AND ARTIFACTS Blender Kit free assets have a number of great logs and I used one for the bottom of the Sapling because I couldn’t stop a section of the sapling from flickering in the final render. I tried everything but in the end covered it with bark. Along the way, found a lot about white noise, artifacts and denoising. I like to use the compositor for denoising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3JV0D4sOao • BACKGROUND HDRI AND FOREGROUND GRASS I originally used the HDRI as my background and foreground but couldn't move without it moving the foreground which looked terrible. Used high grade HDRI which I obtained from Polyhaven https://polyhaven.com/a/epping_forest_02 . I made my own foreground by following an amazing grass tutorial at CG Geek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAm-7_3N6g but I wanted to animate the grass. I spent hours trying to learn how to do this so that it looked real. I tried to follow many videos and In the end it was easy. I followed another great tutorial by Oby 1 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPYFCe1XKOU . Using the particle system grass from the video above, you can animate it easily with the Wind Force Field in the drop down Add button in Object mode. Then use a Turbulence Force Field. Animate the Turbulence to move across the grass using only the location. • SHADOWS To get the idea of shadows from the sun coming through the trees onto the roof of the house I used two spotlights but attached a movie file to it. I learned how to do this by following an amazingly simple tutorial from Blender Daily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ56n1CzRbI • LEAF FALLING To get a leaf falling I followed another great tutorial by CG Boost at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-zfEqMQS88 . • BIRDS To get the birds in the background I used a CC video of birds flying and using UnScreen at https://www.unscreen.com/ I deleted the background sky and included the video as an image into the scene – Add – Image - Image as plane. Make sure you use the alpha plug. • SMOKE Smoke from chimney. I used a tutorial for the smoke. It was steam from a coffee cup tutorial Blender Made Easy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0XsHht6pg . The smoke looks amazing. • ASSETS The free assets like the guitar, log, axe, and windmill come from BlenderKit addon. Ivy generator used without leaves on wall and chimney. • RENDERING Took a lot of time to render this animation. You can shorten this by half using AI flowframes interpolater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3ppld1vAc&t=356s . Transferred movie created to Imovie on my ipad. Added some stills from the scene plus smaller animations. Got some free music from Imovie to add to scene, some free sound effects of birds and crickets and windmill. Added these.
It’s amazing the help you can get on a Blender project when you want to solve a problem. I wanted to create this old Australian Cottage. So I started with • Looking up various cottages on the internet • HOUSE STRUCTURE I wanted the boards to bend and for it to look real. Andrew Price has a brilliant tutorial on creating an abandoned house, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNnERnHRZg , so to create the basic structure I started with some of his techniques. • TEXTURES Many of the textures I used are from Extreme PBR addon for the wood textures but PolyHaven has many free textures. https://polyhaven.com/hdris/outdoor • SAPLING The Sapling is included in Blender • DECREASING NOISE AND ARTIFACTS Blender Kit free assets have a number of great logs and I used one for the bottom of the Sapling because I couldn’t stop a section of the sapling from flickering in the final render. I tried everything but in the end covered it with bark. Along the way, found a lot about white noise, artifacts and denoising. I like to use the compositor for denoising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3JV0D4sOao • BACKGROUND HDRI AND FOREGROUND GRASS I originally used the HDRI as my background and foreground but couldn't move without it moving the foreground which looked terrible. Used high grade HDRI which I obtained from Polyhaven https://polyhaven.com/a/epping_forest_02 . I made my own foreground by following an amazing grass tutorial at CG Geek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAm-7_3N6g but I wanted to animate the grass. I spent hours trying to learn how to do this so that it looked real. I tried to follow many videos and In the end it was easy. I followed another great tutorial by Oby 1 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPYFCe1XKOU . Using the particle system grass from the video above, you can animate it easily with the Wind Force Field in the drop down Add button in Object mode. Then use a Turbulence Force Field. Animate the Turbulence to move across the grass using only the location. • SHADOWS To get the idea of shadows from the sun coming through the trees onto the roof of the house I used two spotlights but attached a movie file to it. I learned how to do this by following an amazingly simple tutorial from Blender Daily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ56n1CzRbI • LEAF FALLING To get a leaf falling I followed another great tutorial by CG Boost at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-zfEqMQS88 . • BIRDS To get the birds in the background I used a CC video of birds flying and using UnScreen at https://www.unscreen.com/ I deleted the background sky and included the video as an image into the scene – Add – Image - Image as plane. Make sure you use the alpha plug. • SMOKE Smoke from chimney. I used a tutorial for the smoke. It was steam from a coffee cup tutorial Blender Made Easy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0XsHht6pg . The smoke looks amazing. • ASSETS The free assets like the guitar, log, axe, and windmill come from BlenderKit addon. Ivy generator used without leaves on wall and chimney. • RENDERING Took a lot of time to render this animation. You can shorten this by half using AI flowframes interpolater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3ppld1vAc&t=356s . Transferred movie created to Imovie on my ipad. Added some stills from the scene plus smaller animations. Got some free music from Imovie to add to scene, some free sound effects of birds and crickets and windmill. Added these.