Blender Market: Dark Forest
Oliver Villar Diz’ ‘Darl Forest’ training is now available from the Blender Market. Learn how to create a moody forest scene from scratch.
Dark Forest is a series of tutorials from Oliver Villar (blendtuts) that covers the whole process of creation of a promotional video in which a camera flies through a forest and shows some glowing titles with the beat of a soundtrack. The tutorials go from the inception of the project, its preproduction and organization, through the whole modelling, sculpting, texturing and animation stages up to the render (with Cycles), lighting and compositing! The series is made of 11 Chapters containing 49 videos: Almost 13 hours of tutorials!!
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Not sure about the quality of the contents in this tutorial series, but the end result isn’t really that amazing. It lacks in terms of shading, texturing and overall quality of art. It obviously doesn’t matter if tutorials are golden when it comes to learning principles of keeping things organized, but it eats heavily credence of this product.
I can’t really agree with what you’re saying about the art. That all totally depends on what you are going for. It just looks like a style to me. I can, however, agree with the rest of your comment. As for Oliver and his tutorials, from what I’ve seen in the past he does an excellent job and is very thorough in his approach. Check his site out.
I have this tutorial series already and there’s actually a lot of techniques covered, including planning out your animation on paper first before jumping into Blender. The coloring style may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but the course does teach you texture painting so you could change that up to something that more suits your style. The main idea behind this course is to teach you how to plan and implement an animation project. Hope that helps.