Growing Tree Animation

  • January 31, 2017
  • 324 Downloads
  • 8 Likes
  • Blender 2.7x
  • Render: Cycles
  • Creator: snu
  • License: CC-0
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Description:

This is a short animation of a growing curly, kindof cartoonish tree. This was based on a stock image and used for an event logo, I was tasked with making it animated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0BZ6xuXJXg

The tree trunk and roots are all beveled curves. The trunk 'growing' is accomplished by animating the bevel factor applied to the trunk, limbs, and roots, mixed with shapekeys on the curve bevel objects. The leaves are placed ahead of time, and animated with a shapekey and scale up from 0.

Modifications: The speed of the animation could be adjusted fairly easily (select all objects and scale all animation curves). Existing branches and leaves can be moved or have their shape changed easily. More branches or leaves can be duplicated and grown with minimal effort.

Created by Hudson Barkley (aka Snu). This .blend is free for all use, credit is not required.

tree growing leaves animation

Comments:

  • mramshaw profile picture
    mramshaw

    Amazing, like all of your stuff, well-organized and well-documented.

    Written February 05, 2017
  • Bearpro profile picture
    Bearpro

    Nice! thanks

    Written February 12, 2017
  • patricia3d profile picture
    patricia3d

    Great its better then mine growing tree, downloading and i will show the animation within 10 days. Thanks.,

    Written February 04, 2018
  • damosdesigns profile picture
    damosdesigns

    Beautiful!

    Written April 28, 2019