Above: The finished vision. There's so much detail that I want to add to this scene and each of them will be firsts. I can't say I had modelled a tree before on this project and it took many attempts for it to look natural.
In the end, rather than trying to fit the tree around the house, I simply researched into Bonsai shapes and went with it. Bonsai trees are such interesting shapes, and do allow for a space to be made for a house to sit on top.
The tree in Zbrush.
The surface was entirely modelled by hand as alphas couldn't reproduce the effect that I wanted. However I discovered surface noise to help with the texture, and things went much faster.
3 types of Hokora shrines, with some room for improvement.
The Torii gates to be placed at the base of the tree. They will definitely be getting nice wooden textures to look more realistic.
Painted in Zbrush
More images will be added for the in between, but this is the tree exported to Cryengine without any of the other details.
