My process for creating stylized trees in Unreal Engine

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0:00 Intro
0:30 Overall Workflow
1:00 Challenges
1:55 Leaves Textures
3:54 Leaves Cards
4:45 Tree Canopy Method
6:06 Tree Base Mesh
6:26 Cards
7:59 Zbrush
8:08 Tree Low Poly Mesh
8:18 Tree Textures
8:25 Custom Normals
9:10 Data in UVs
9:28 LODs
11:20 Tree Material
12:07 Leaves Material
13:14 Outro

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