I made this artwork in celebration of Vietnamese Teachers' Day. I create a tree in SpeedTree, which come with the best wind animation out there, but the tree is too realistic (comes with individual leaves mesh) and not suitable for anime style. So I import the animated tree into blender, then using Geometry Node, I generated billboard mesh (planes that always face camera) that attach to the leaves mesh so they move along with the leaves animation.
I also create a anime cel shader for the leaves, which is very necessary when create anime style assets.
Now it has the anime look with the realistic wind animation.
What do you think, these are all experiment that I had a lot of fun researching.
Breakdown on my yt channel.
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