Real or Render?

This was a four week long project I've recently completed for the end of my second year studying a Bachelor of Art and Design at Media Design School. 

The task was to create a still life, photograph it and then recreate it in 3D, the idea being you wouldn't be able to know whats real or whats a render!

Here's an early look at the process after capturing the final photograph. 

The image had to be put into Nuke to be undistorted to turn it into a plate that we could match the CG to. Then it was time to start blocking out the larger shapes of the props in Maya. Once their was a rough blockout of everything, I could move onto a lighting match which was rendered using Redshift.

Then, it was a matter of going back and forth between adding more details to the models and using the updated models to check the lighting match.

Here is a look at some of the stages of models

Here's an earlier screenshot while I was working on the camera match, which was one of the trickiest parts of the process!

(This is a screenshot out of Maya with the wireframe CG overlayed onto the photograph plate)

Once the models were completed I could move onto the surfacing, which was done using Substance Painter and Photoshop.

I started by putting a base 'clean' texture over everything before adding wear and tear and grunge to it

And after alot of back and forth of texturing, rendering and comparing to the photograph, I ended up with a finalised Raw render.

I then edited both the photograph and the render in Nuke, which takes us to the final product!

Thanks so much for having a look at my work!