Creating Grass in Blender

On July 21, 2018

Release date:2016

Duration:00 h 59 m

Author:Jonathan Lampel

Skill level:Intermediate

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Course Summary
Grass is just about everywhere outside, so it’s really handy to know how to render it well. This course covers everything you’ll need to make your own: modeling, shading, particle instancing, animation, and more! We’ll cover two different ways of creating grass – hair particles and mesh particles. Since they both have their advantages and disadvantages, we’ll cover why you would want to use one over another, or the best ways to use them in combination.

Grass is tricky to get right, but if you set it up once you can reuse and tweak it again and again extremely quickly. It is just about everywhere outside, so it’s really handy to know how to render it well. This course covers everything you’ll need to make it your own:

modeling
shading
particle instancing
animation
weight painting
and more!

We’ll cover two different ways of creating grass – hair particles and mesh particles. Since they both have their advantages and disadvantages, we’ll cover why you would want to use one over another, or the best ways to use them in combination.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Hair Grass
Use Blender’s hair particles to grow the first layer of grass.
Creating Grass Hair Particles 7 min
Shading Hair Grass 5 min
Chapter 2: Mesh Grass
Find out howto instance mesh objects using particles for a second layer of grass.
Modeling Mesh Grass 12 min
Shading Mesh Grass 8 min
Chapter 3: Adding Grass to a Scene
Put it all together with these last few lessons.
Combining Hair & Mesh Grass 4 min
Animating grass 10 min
Adding Extra Objects 6 min
Creating Dead Grass & Final Tweaks 4 min