I made this in Maya using the paint brush tool. I used two different types on grass in this image and painted onto a bumpy plane I created. I really like this effect as the grass looks so 3D and realistic. This only took me 2 minutes to create once I'd figured out how to do it. I'm so impressed and thought for some reason that creating grass in Maya would require making each blade of grass from scratch or downloading Vray 2.0 or something alike in order to make this happen.
However....
I did run into a few problems.
This render is done with the Maya renderer.
When trying it with Mental Ray nothing showed up. After figuring out that I need to convert the grass to either NURBS or Polys.. My file became much slower and then I rendered....
The render time was incredibly slow just to render out one frame and the grass looks horrible in comparison to how it was looking before.
So I may need to create different layers and render them individually with different renderers and then piece them together.
Watching this tutorial here to learn how:
I've also found a really good tutorial fr making cogs in the machine:
I've also been playing around with what I could make for the scenery using the Paint Brush. I've discovered I can make trees, water and flowers easily. There's also types that come as polygons so are more successful at converting into polys.
Tree concerted to a polygon and rendered in Mental Way.
Non poly trees. This is a Maya Software render. They didn't successfully turn to polys as I think they're an image wrapped around an object. Made a plan with paper texture which makes the trees going through it look like they're sitting in fog.
Snowing! I think this effect looks awesome. Also mushrooms.
Flowers and water. The water looks amazing but I don't think I'll need to use it.
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