C4D 2024 Tutorial 16: Simple Leaf Part 1: Polygon Pen, Deformers and UV Editing.

This Tutorial goes over techniques used to create a simple polygon plane leaf based on an texture file and then uses deformers to curl the leaf. After these steps the image file is used as the color channel for the material and it covers how to Edit the UVs of the leaf to match the position and orientation of the leaf in the texture file. Part 2 of this tutorial Shows how to use the Opacity channel in Redshift to hide most of the white background without editing the image in an external program and the Subsurface channel to achieve a backlit effect.