Trees and plants

The trees and plants in 3d always were a real headache for me. Here are some experiments in trees for one of my personal project — china house. First of all, the tree must have a "true", "treelike" geometry. One of important things, that leafs should face to sky. In my case, I used Maya's Paint FX trees, with a lot of tunings, converting to poly assigning mia material and render via mentalray.