How to Create Ghibli Trees in 3D - Blender Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video, David from Lightning Boy Studio will show how to create 3D trees in the style of Ghibli films, all in Blender 2.83
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Who is this guy, why was he recommended, why is he so good, and why didn't he delete the default cube?
So many questions, far too fewer answers.
Only the true masters know that the default cube is the best. You can delete and re-add a cube all you want but it will never be the default cube.
@@mortemmalum7228 Touched my soul
That default cube needs to be excommunicated at first light before anything else can be done! We all learned this!
He is in my recommends too, i dunno why, im russian, but there is english guy in recommends
He... didn’t delete the default cube? He’s the Chosen One!
I watch a blender tutorial like 10 years since the last time, and now not deleting the cube is something?I am not surprised why a trivial water color tree is called ghibly tree
I know deleting the cube is a meme and all, but why don't people just save a layout that loads on startup without the cube?
@@zackhenderson2392 it would end meme
@@zackhenderson2392 haha i deleted the cube and bought it back to life by control+ z
@@zackhenderson2392 blender loads way too fast so i like to delete the cube to wait a little longer before i start doing anything
I've never used blender in my life, it's not even installed on my computer. But I watched this whole video and enjoyed it thoroughly
You should give it a try then if you are interested in 3D.
saurav banerjee it’s probably more the same effect as watching Bob Ross paint 🎨 happy little trees 🌲 and happy fluffy clouds ☁️
One of my other channels has a few blender videos. Speed modeling mostly, it’s another subcategory of “watch for pleasure” Blender videos.
Intall it..
its very light (only arounf 80MB)
unlike any other 3d program...
Well u need to start using blender. Just bcuz its free dont mean its not good like Maya. Blender could do anything n most industri are starting to switch over to blender
And I don't do 3D things.
Imagine learning how to spend countless hours on something and just sharing how to do it for everybody else to learn. This man needs more subs.
There are two types of blender users
1 - Obliterate the default cube
2 - Let's subdivide this pretty boi
Neither side will ever kneel to thee other
There is a third type with an empty startup file that laughs about this stupid default cube "problem".
Fun fact, subdividing the cube doesn’t actually make a sphere. It looks like a sphere but when you rotate it, you can see humps at where the edges used to be. It’s also a waste of vertices so it’s much better to add a UV sphere instead.
@@RyoMassaki Guilty as charged.
Just decided to nix it even appearing to save that precisous 3 seconds of time, lol.
I'm at the delete gang, that's the only way to go, the correct path of a true 3d artist, especially if you delete and then create another one right away
You studied the Ghibli environment. You cracked the secret. And You are showing us that process?! People like you is what makes me love the Blender/3D community. Thank you! Really THANK YOU!
Great tutorial! The Shader to RGB node is so powerful, I wish there was an alternative node for Cycles! Maybe one day...
@Pranjal Rathor no u
@Pranjal Rathor Nope.
@Pranjal Rathor no, but your opinion does
Yes man, one day. Well, I hope to see great tutorials on your side as well.
@Pranjal Rathor why so?
23:35 "put negative number, and you can cast shadow with the light"
Physics has left the chat...
Normal person: "Darkness is just the absence of light"
Point light with negative power: 27:30
This looks like a great way to make some stylized clouds and smoke as well. Thanks! 2 tutorials in 1!
oh that's an awesome idea
My thoughts exactly. Or even stylized fro hair!
great comment
Hmmm i was actually looking to make a cloud like that.. Thanks for this comment, i totally missed it myself :)
@@Chachumbabub For a Low poly charecters love it
A few things I discovered while working with this technique.
Since the Foliage base object isn't changed when we get to build the trees, you can apply all modifiers, and remesh the object in Sculpt mode (using the pipette to set the detail to what's already there works well). This reduces the amount of polys quite significantly.
To use this in a game, you'd naturally want to create a low poly mesh and bake a diffuse texture from the high poly mesh. I managed getting the foliage down to about 2k of polys.
Since baking is only done in Cycles, and the Shader to RGB is EEVEE only, bake the diffuse to a texture, and input that texture to the color ramps instead. Gives pretty much the same end result.
Also, you can heavily decimate these trees to get pretty cool "low poly" trees! :)
Also, for game assets, this foliage works well to export textures from different angles and apply on planes to get "sprite based" trees.
I'm trying to follow what you recommend and I know it's great advice here, but I don't understand everything you're saying. So I managed to remesh the Foliage object, but I don't know how you wuld bake a diffuse from the high poly mesh. You mean do that in Blender? Also, where would I plug that baked texture? Is it instead of Shader to RGB node? And last, you say to export texture from different angles to get sprite based treed. I can't find anything on the internet. I hope you see this message. If not, thanks anyway.@@jorgenhall854
2 years later, yet this guy is still god. Thank for this amazing work
Me : sleep
LBS : *Ghibli tree in Blender*
My brain : *NO SLEEP FOR TONIGHT!!!*
I never thought a tutorial like this was going to exist.
Dude I know right, Blender tutorials for highly stylized props amidst the forest (heh) of photorealistic ones are a godsend.
Same.
Can't believe he didnt delete the cube.
For people using blender 2.9, on the data transfer step around 10:30, the custom normals option is under face corner data
Thank you so much. I was scratching my head digging around cause my trees were a lot blockier. I knew it was because they moved the option but couldn't work out where
ThANK YOU
Thank you!
2:57 if nothing appears after "particle" object being linked, check if amount value is = 1 in Particle Instance Modifier. It's = 0 by default and that make it shows no results.
Nice this issue confused me. Thanks so much for your insight :)
Thanks!!
This comment deserves to be pinned.
I have tried this on both blender 2.81 and 2.9. This modifier does not seem to work at all on 2.9
omg thk you !!
Stylized grass next plzz...that"ll get alotta views for sure because alot of ppl want it and there is no good tutorial on how to do it....dma great job cant wait for dinomancers
There's this tutorial that I think is pretty good:
th-cam.com/video/3tE7mr8GDyY/w-d-xo.html
Here's a nice one. :) th-cam.com/video/46yAuZ1GBb4/w-d-xo.html
@@AshleyAlyse oh dam this will do beautifully ty
@@onei3411 thnxx much onei sama
@@AshleyAlyse whoa, this is a great one.
7:19 you can completely proceduralize this step by adding a displace modifier and setting it to either voronoi or clouds
edit: make sure the displace modifier is at the top of the modifier stack
Thanks, good thinking!
Musgrave seems to work pretty well too.
Where are you finding the voronoi or clouds options? I don't see it - I just get an option to use a texture and there aren't any textures by those names in my scene.
@@CGPacifica Add the Displace Modifier and under Texture click + New. You should see your displacement change and 'Texture.001' appears as the Texture Name. Go to the Texture Properties tab, the checkerboard icon under Material Properties. You should see Type: Image or Movie. That's a dropdown menu which has Voronoi, Clouds, Musgrave and other options.
@@LightningBoyStudio Could you make a tutorial on how to make cherry blossom trees? Or would it be the same process?
It is always so inspiring to see a person with so much shine in the eyes because of enjoying the work.
In a world, where default cubes never make it past the first 5 minutes. One cube, will become a Ghibli tree.
Honestly dude, this is so impressive that you found the best ways to keep the system from slowing down in the process. Not a rookie at all. Got my sub.
as soon as you clicked autosmooth on the normals i was like "yes, this is the excellent content"
Damn, these are by far the best looking npr trees i've ever seen!
Man, this was the video that actually got me to switch to blender and fully adopt 3d as a hobby. A lot changes in just over a year and a half!
Didn't think a 30 minute tutorial would take me all day to do, but really shows how much you can learn from a good quality, short tutorial. Thanks so much!!
11:15 "it's starting to look like something"
Dude, it looks like magic to me
Thank you David and LBS we are now one step closer to materialise our Ghibli dreams.
some number of years into blender and I can finally follow a tutorial and end up with the same result without pausing one million times. You made this tutorial so easy but also so fun to explore different systems in blender. I don't watch as much anime as I used to but so many works by Ghibli mean a lot to people, myself included and being able to emulate that style thanks to you is a crazy feeling I never thought would happen. Cheers.
Quick edit to say I also invested in lightning boy recently and if I had to keep one of my addons, that would be it. It literally transformed powerful, but time consuming shading/texturing features into something that feels on par with c4d or maya in terms of quality, style, and ease of use.
This is by far one of the best Blender tutorials that I've seen (free or paid for). A+ for innovative use of shaders, instancing, and decimation to keep things snappy. I could have experimented for a year and not come up with this recipe. +1 to many of the other comments too. There are a lot of techniques here that can be broken out and used elsewhere.
18:23 There's actually an built-in addon "import image as planes" that let's you import reference photos without all the UV fuss
You can also just drag an image in.
@@HAWXLEADER yup
You could even make an image viewer panel and drag the image in there.
yeah that killed me XD
Where do I go for that because I’m having trouble making the orange square bigger
The moment you pressed Smooth Shading it completely blew my mind. This is really good, thank you for these tutorials. This unlocks so many ideas in my head its crazy.
That was the big moment for me as well. Felt like the sky opened. It all led up too that, "daaaaaamn, there it is..." moment.
I've messed around with Blender some before but every time I've given up on trying to figure it out... I cannot express the pure joy I felt when what happened on my screen looked exactly like what you were showing. This is a fantastic tutorial! Keep it up!!!!
I just want to say that this is amazing.
They’re all instances yet you’re able to “change” their material? Witchcraft!
He did it with object color. But you can do it with materials, too, if you want to.. just associate the materials with the 'Object' instead of its 'Data' ( little dropdown, bottom right of material slots)
Oh, I have been waiting for this stylised natural assets for a long time. Please keep on making tutorials on natural assets in ghibli style. Huts, rocks, river, mountain, bridge, clouds etc.
I was literally just trying to make these! Perfect timing! Thank you SO much.
Dude, I am experimenting with the final result and... I can't believe blender can do this. It feels so natural, and it has so much language, it really feels like handmade, it has a lot of pression on it. Never thought 3D could do such a thing, I always thought the end result would look or feel synthetic. It's amazing.
I know this was posted 2 years ago but the tutorial is amazing, well done and thank you!
Also you can literally see the way he is looking at his creation by the end of the video and constantly smiling. :)
Me: "Why am I here"
TH-cam: "You keep watching blender stuff"
Me: "Ok"
You pass the butter. / Rick and Morty ;)
Didn't want to type in "stylised" tree, because you would only get those extremely low-poly tree tutorials. But I also wasn't looking for realistic trees.
This is the perfect middle ground. Pretty much exactly what I wanted. And the video is only 5 days old! So had I looked this up a week ago I wouldn't have had any luck!
Edit: Would this work in games or would it be too heavy? My pc is kind of lagging already making this XD
baking is your solution mate
@@saketokai1021 what do you mean my fellow traveler?
@@FuranTenshiFK baking help you save texture or light and make 3d obj lighter (by applying baked texture on low-poly model)
@@saketokai1021 Right. Thanks. I've never really researched any of that.
@@TheToneBender if you have never researched any of that why are you talking about games at all XD
Haven't watched Blender related videos in a while, this came up randomly. Saw the intro and was immediately hooked! Can't wait to see more videos coming out of this channel!
The object color is the single most useful thing I've learned yet from blender! Very cool!
Gorgeous! Love the style and the process.
27:55 that is such a great trick and I’m really happy to see you can cast shadow/absorb light now!
Might have been in 3DS Max I tried, but remember playing around with this and could not get it working some years ago.
The negative value on the point light was the cherry on top to the whole tutorial 👌🏾👌🏾
You are such a great instructor! I love the way you explain why things should be done not just how. Thank you!
You can get increase the hand painted look by mixing the shader to rgb with a noise in soft light mode. Very nice results, I'll be playing with this style.
Can you share this method by showing the nodes, thanks
hi! this sounds really cool, what is "a noise in soft light mode?" is that a shader mode? something else? what is it specifically called?
@@maggiepeters2046 maybe he means pugging a noise texture into a MixRGB node with the blend mode set to soft light
Yo! Thanks. (I did not use ambient occlusion in my project so the color ramp was not functioning as expected) You can also use an ambient occlusion node if your project as a whole does not use it. this was my solution: Diffuse bdsf -> shader to rgb -> to mix rgb set to linear light -> color ramp. the mix rgb mixes an ambient occlusion node in to a factor of the ambient occlusion node
Tutorial is great! Using it for a project for school! Quick tip for ppl stuck at 10:30 please remember to tick that "custom normals" button in data transfer! I was stuck for a bit and went through the tutorial 2 different times before I realized XD
You're a legend, I've always wanted to learn anime stylized 3d art but didn't have the capability to understand the gda talk from arc system works but your easy tutorials are a perfect first step, thank you so much, I don't know how to express my gratitude, but please keep making more videos of. This nature, thank you onec again
Darn... This method is so awesome, i literally cried when you showed how it looks with the transferred normals. You helped a lot, thank you!
Truly helpful, I'm actually working on a character that needs an afro, and this helped me A LOT! thanks so much for sharing and I can tell, you are good at teaching :D
This guy:
Studio ghibli: 👀
As someone trying to learn and create stylized environments, this was very helpful. I have followed the other videos on your channel as well and had great results. Please keep making more videos! These are very helpful :D
That's amazing ! It Reminds me of an old trick for clouds rendering in 3DSmax used in the short film "Paths of Hate". But blender makes it sooo much easier haha. Thx for sharing your R&D ! :)
We remember that short! The art style is so inspiring.
Amazing. This looks great. What about a tutorial on ground elements like grass and rocks in Ghibli style? Tree trunks in blender would be great too. Thanks.
Such a great idea, and so well executed. The best things in life are like this tree method: amazing yet simple once you know it, but it takes a frickin' genius to discover it the first time.
My goodness, you have no idea how perfect a time you're posting this vid. Been subbed for months and using your techniques has propelled me so far in stylized 3d scene composition.
Glad to hear it! Thanks Isaiah!
Hey, just a tip. You can enable the images as planes addon in the settings, so you can drag and drop images to blender and they will automatically be set with a image texture. (:
Yes, just heard about this! Thanks for the tip!
1:27 if duplicating doesn't work when pressing Shift + D, make sure your mouse cursor is in the 3D area next to the ball
this is mind blowing! I never even considered that blender could do everything you did like the custom normals
this is by far the coolest blender tutorial i have ever seen
freaking awesome these "object color" trick to different materials bro!
THANK YOU for that bit of wisdom transfer :D
Hayao Miyazaki: *stares angrily and walks out to puff a cigarette*
wait, is this a goro miyazaki's tales from earthsea premiere reference??
madge
Hayao Miyazaki: Blender was a mistake XD
I want to thank you for making this tutorial!! Ive been dreading learning Blender for years, every single tutorial I tried I never finish it due to how overwhelming they are. But THIS ONE I FINISHED IT 100% , and I am so proud of myself ;w; THANK YOU
I woke up with a shitty mindset and a gnarly case of anxiety, but watching this was enlightening. Being able to create something from nothing really is a feat of dedication. Your work flow and design are amazing.
Thank you Patrick! Hopefully, it cheered up your day a little. :)
As a beginner in Blender (I haven't even finished BlenderGuru's donut tutorial series yet), this was super easy to follow, you definitely earned a sub!! I was wondering, since my laptop seems to be slowing down quite a bit if I have more than 1 tree in my scene, would there be a quick and easy way to temporarily replace these trees or foliages by placeholders (e.g. low-poly spheres)? That'd be very useful in large scenes with many trees, especially if they can be switched with just a few clicks.
Update: This was kind of obvious but turning off the particle systems in the viewport already cuts down on a lot of polygons, though the remaining spheres are still relatively high-poly.
Do you need placeholders? If not try just hiding the trees with the eye icon
Use ALT +D to copy objects. This will save memory.
Came across this through YT recommendations - really enjoyed this! As a hobbyist game dev would be interested to see how you would export these and get them into an engine like Unity or Godot... Will maybe give it a bash and report back...
Particle system will make it a bit heavy for games but i am sure you can make lighter model of tree. And as for shader, it want be that hard to recreate in shader graph or writting a custom shader
You have to write a custom shader, its not that hard, since is just a toon light with good color and multiple bands, there is tutorials and shaders alredy out there. And even though current pc and console deal very well with high geometry, for a tree, is just not worth.
I'm going to see what happens when you bake a normal map using the custom normals onto a low poly skin.
Looks terrible :(
This covered the most topics in a single tutorial ever - you are my favorite TH-cam
. Thank you so much!
Thanks for kind words. Glad it helped ! :)
Thanks for all the effort you put into this, dude. Very good tutorial.
Great tutorial.
I just want to ask:
how do you import this object to Unity (with the same look)?
Mine looks far less cool : (
I know nothing about blender, but the important thing is to convert the particle systems into a mesh, and you can export that to Unity, UE4 etc. The "toon look" can be achieve with a Cel Shading Material, there's plenty on the internet. But I don't think there's a way to convert the particle system into a mesh :/
@@alternative_sub
You can conver partical system to a mesh by aplying the modifires(at least i think so).
The problem was that unity didn't used the nodes in the material. So I had to copie a "toon shader" on the internet. Now the tree does look much better. I used the shader on other objects to. It realy makes the game look nice.
Thans for the coment: )
10:50 When it worked on my end, I got lost in thoughts and needed some time before I could continue 😮
What excellent work you are doing! Also, you have a very natural way of explaining this kind of tutorial. Well done! Really enjoyed it!
Thank you, this was really helpful! I am a complete beginner at blender, but I could follow along the entire video without any problems at all and I learned a lot! It looks amazing too! :D
Great tutorial, I think I being dumb though I dont have 'color' as an option in Object info?
update your blender version, i had the same problem but this fixed it
@@benedict3965 you are a hero! Thank you
@@greenmancartoons im glad it helped 🙄
my laptop was burning
@@marcodvbr8641 lmao
If you're using Blender 2.93, dont forget to change the instance modifier setting to LOCAL rather than WORLD, otherwise your system will be floating away from the object you created.
MA MAN /\
damn thanks
What a brilliant tutorial and wonderful effect! Thank you.
absolutely awesome
I'm using blender 3.4 and can't find the view node used at 12:17 and can't find anything on the internet, can anyone help?
it should be ctrl+shift+node you want to see
Me too. I did put on the Add On Wrangler, saving it and doing the Sortcuts but nothing happens.....
Hi!
I had the same problem.
Shader to RGB is only valid for EEVEE it seems to me
It is an emission shader. You don't need a viewer node to do it, but it's a useful shortcut
3:00 in when I select my Particle Emitter with the eyedropper the ball just disappears. using Blender 2.91
make sure you are in cycles not eevee
I loved this tutorial so much! Is such an ingenious way to make easy beautiful trees, perfect for indie studios. Thanks a lot
Amazing!! I appreciate your help! Recently I just started playing with blender and looking for toon shader tips.
So fun to make Ghibli look style! Thank you so much!
3:00 *Can someone help?* My model just turns invisible when i eyedrop the particle emitter to the foliage :( I have tried this twice from scratch, version 2.91.0
(edit): AFTER READING THROUGH NEW COMMENTS I found a fix that helped me: 'check if amount value is = 1 in Particle Instance Modifier. It's = 0 by default and that make it shows no results.'
thank you for the help, I also had that bug
@@magokill4016 any time, friend
Does someone knows the Workflow in Maya 2019.2 to get a similar result? Would be cool if this would work there too. i would actually need it for a school project :D
Updated!
nvm. did find it by myself xD actually its working with MASH and then convert the Vertex normal in Mesh -> Transfer Attributes and set the Vertex normals on On. after it working with a toon shader oder a rampshader to get a toony look on it :D
Hey, I'm interested in this, could you please elaborate more ? You would be a life-saver. I don't really know how to use MASH :/. Thanks a lot !
that collection instancing alone just blew my mind.
Right-click.. copy to selected.. You just saved me a ton of time. God bless you
I saved my Blender to where it doesn't put in the default cube. I didn't wanna see that disgusting thing.
I'd do the same but I get too much satisfaction out of deleting it every time
How you do that??
hold up-
did you just make an entire 29 minuet long tutorial about making a tree and forget that they have trunks???
I can't describe how great this tutorial is.
I have no idea what kind of black magic did this "custom normal" option but i'm blown away! thank you for this tutorial
This dude is brilliant and Blender is amazing. I cannot believe that it's creators thought of so many things!
Huge thanks for this long format tutorial! LBS add-on is just awesome, btw.
This was great! i was always scared of touching the shader options in Blender, but you make it sound so simple 😀
This tutorial completely changed the blender npr scene imo
Thanks a lot!
This is absolutely brilliant. I love this so much!
I came here just looking for a quick rundown of how to make a tree.
The video was so good, I subscribed.
Fantastic man, thank you. That normal transfer really is the key here!
so skilled and generous! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us :)
This is incredible I'm literally amazed !
Brother, I've just started using blender on my ahh laptop watching things here and there and this is BY FAR the best tutorial i've come across. Hands down to you for giving us all of this. New Sub right here
These look seriously accurate to the films! I cant wait to add some cool trees to my scenes. Thank you!
This is the best recomendation i ever had on youtube, PLEASE continue with this type of content 😘
This video is one galaxy brain moment after another. It's like watching a wizard at work. I thought I'd seen it all when he did the thing to switch between the colors but when he put a negative value in the light to cast shadow I completely lost it. I can't wait to try the techniques tomorrow. Mad respect.