User blog comment:BrickfilmNut/What I've Been Working On/@comment-3499785-20141108203627/@comment-4724333-20141115191129

(In case anyone is wondering why I didn't reply to this, I gave the technique in chat. If anybody else reading this is interested, the branches are basically slightly-distorted planes with branch textures, and the base of the tree was made with Blender's sapling plug-in, modified a bit in edit mode).