Silver Fir: Part-Doh

As I promised, here is some more final shots of my tree and some process of what I learned at FuturePoly as well.

After gathering and studying reference, I began by modeling the needles and placing them all along a smaller branch.

Then, projection mapping was used to bake out the diffuse and normals to a texture.

The alpha plane was then brought back into max and shaped to create a variety of branches and pieces to place on a trunk and fill out the tree.

These are some shots of the tree after being taken into CryEngine.