Xfrog creates 3D Organic Software (Xfrog 5), 3D Models of Plants (XfrogPlants) and Terragen 2 Ecosystem Software with 1,300 XfrogPlants (Terragen Bundles).

Cubic Tree

Growing Tree

Vanish

Our new upgrade, Xfrog 5 for Cinema4D, adds speed, stability, and full compatibility with Cinema 4D R 13 Now, along with everything in our shop, it is ON SALE at 30% OFF!
Xfrog 5 is a procedural organic 3D modeler that allows you to create and animate 3d trees, flowers, nature based special effects or architectural forms. Xfrog 5 includes several bug fixes, performance optimization including 20% speedup over Xfrog 4.4 as well as full compatibility with Cinema 4D R12 and R13. Xfrog enables even the most casual user with the powerful ability to create and animate organic models. Since it’s release in 2005, Xfrog for CINEMA 4D, endorsed by MAXON, quickly become one of the most popular plugins for CINEMA 4D.

Some common examples of Xfrog 5 include: tree growth, tree seasons, blossoming flowers, complex nature-based effects, abstract, and many other uses.

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Customers who purchased Xfrog 4.4 in the past six months are eligible to upgrade for no cost. Simply Install Xfrog 5 and request a permanent key.

About Xfrog, Inc.

Xfrog is a world leader in organic plant modeling and ecosystem software research and development. Xfrog Software and XfrogPlants are used by many leading film, game, and architecture users, such as Zaha Hadid, WETA, Konami, Digital Domain, ILM, Frank Gehry, Pixar, Sony Imageworks, and Electronic Arts, as well as many thousands of individual customers worldwide.

Many films such as Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, The Incredibles, War of the Worlds, The Polar Express, have utilized Xfrog and XfrogPlants for detailed tree shots and in creating highly realistic environmental landscapes.

This time we will explore one of the most complex and vast subject matter in our field, our urban way of living. Cities come in all shapes an sizes across human history, both as real places and as figment of our imagination in various art forms such as paintings, novels, songs, and movies. The City offers many to gather in one place, live and work in it throughout the seasons and create something that is greater than the sum of its parts. Your mission is to showcase the life in the city… of your choice.

The challenge is open from September 12, 2011 to December 24, 2011. For rules, categories and prize information visit the CityLIFE Challenge Page at ronenbekerman.com

Browse the complete XfrogPlants Asia Library

The library includes 20 species, each with nine 3D models of the plant in different ages and sizes for a total of 180 highly detailed, fully textured new models. This set of nine botanically correct ages and variations are modeled by hand, not randomly produced, to give maximum variety for instancing the models across a virtual terrain: essential for recreating the ecosystems of Asia.

Asiatic Mangrove

Mazari Palm

Golden Bamboo

Banyan

Weeping Fig

Ashoka Tree

XfrogPlants Asia is available in all popular 3D formats, Maya, Cinema 4D, Max, OBJ, Lightwave, and 3ds Max, and includes 1600 x 1600 Billboards and 1600 x 1600 Perspective Renders, each with alpha, for single polygon opacity mapping, or direct compositing.

Additionally, this library was created with Xfrog 5 for Maya 2011, a first for our libraries. Inside Xfrog 5 for Maya, each plant has Xfrog hierarchical structure, which Xfrog 5 Maya users can edit and animate growth, form, branching, gravitropism, phototropism, and MORE!

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It’s not the most practical house in the world but I love the way the kitchen area hangs over the pool and as you can see, this is my main area of interest in the renders.

I’ve tried to keep the materials similar to those used but for the lighting I chose a nice sunny day (except in the first overcast render) which is when i think this house really shines (lousy pun not intended). A couple of the camera angles are similar to the reference photos but are not intended to be an exact match.

I changed the pot to better match the reference photos, and I made some manual changes (i.e. leaf by leaf in modo) to make sure there are no intersecting leaves and to get the leaves in more random positions. I may have subdivided the leaves a bit more too. All the textures apart from the pot texture are Xfrog.

I used the Ginger plants a lot as fillers in the flower bed by the pool and in front of the tall rear retaining wall. Also in there are some of the bushes.

I have to say the plants are fantastic!

Visit the original luxology forum post for even more great renders

The animated short “Outside In” is the master’s degree project of eight students from the University of Applied Sciences of Salzburg, Austria.

A part of the film shows the main character soaking up different materials by touching them. Xfrog for Maya was used for the absorption of wood. It allowed us to easily animate growing roots coming out of a tree onto his body and adding side branches and leaves which could also be animated according to his movement.

For more information about this project visit: www.outside-in.at

Xfrog adds six new procedural Objects to Maya. By combining these with Maya components and objects you can create a wide variety of organic models and animations using organic procedures (based on some of the building blocks of Nature).

Our tools behave exactly like Maya components, so you can keyframe them and combine them with PaintEffects or Particle animations or use MEL Scripts to drive them – the possibilities are nearly endless.