Here's a tree scene I worked on recently. It's mostly made up of texture work. About 90% of the modeling work was provided to me. The parachute and the roots sticking out of the ground are the models that are mine. I do plan on adding a few more modeling details to this piece in the near future. I would like to have the foliage grow up over the barrels and tree base. The foliage looks a bit manicured atm. I will most likely have to make a few more plant variations to get the look I want.
All the texture work on this scene was hand painted and made to tile seamlessly. No photo manipulation was used for the textures and all but the leaf and plant textures were made using Zbrush and Photoshop. I used Maya's 3D paint tool to create the mask textures that allows the moss texture to crawl up the tree and over the other geometry. Each of the geometry pieces that have moss growing over it has a second UV set that I used to position the moss correctly. I lit the scene in Maya and rendered it using Mental Ray.
