This project is a glimpse into the stylized foliage that I created for a game that I have been working on. The entire game is cell shaded as of now, but I did see it necessary to show the trees in the non-cell shaded lighting as well. After combing through a bunch of tutorials I was able to find techniques that I liked and brought them together to make these beautiful trees and plants. One of my proudest breakthroughs was figuring out the gradient system for making the trees gradient at the same point no matter where they were placed in the level.

I ended modeling about 4 different plants and 4 different trees. Here you see one of those trees being based on a Japanese Red Maple Tree. Of course here it just has regular leaves, I decided to create 4 variants for all the trees. 2 red and 2 green. I had the idea of a forest of pink mystical looking trees and those were my inspiration. As of now the pink forest is unrealized however currently in it's place is what I believe to be a very beautiful level for my game.