Yang Tiant talked about the workflow behind the Blooming Toulouse project, explaining how she sculpted the tree and the rocks, including the main shapes and the details, and detailed how she textured the foliage.

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Yang Tian shares the full workflow behind her Blooming Toulouse project, a stylized 3D environment recreated from a 2D concept painting. She covers the entire pipeline: planning with a trim sheet and PureRef references, modeling the tree and rocks in Maya, sculpting details in ZBrush using alpha masking and displacement maps, texturing in Substance 3D Painter with smart materials, creating foliage variations, setting up a waterfall with displacement, lighting with 30+ VRay lights and fog, and compositing in Photoshop. The project was completed in 4–5 weeks as a foundation term final at Think Tank Training Centre.

Recreating a 2D Environment in 3D Using ZBrush and Substance 3D