I still haven't recorded a video, I'm adding finishing touches to the scene before the final render and have started working on prop showcase scenes, but in a nutshell it's like this: on separate layers, I paint a branch and all the leaves with masking tools - completely manually, by hand. Then I use those masks as anchors…
Thanks guys! =) It is still using cards. Only a few thicker ones are pure geo, but yes, 95% of the foliage here is made from cards. Speaking of foliage, I made some of the textures with a custom SP template I'm still working on. Basically, it enables me to manually paint branches and leaves as masks, while it procedurally…