Alchemist's Lab

I modeled this scene based on the beautiful artwork of Daniil Rogachyov as a personal project. The goal was to try to translate his beautiful artwork to 3D.

I was responsible for all aspects of the pipeline, where I modeled the scene in Maya. The hardest part was to match the camera angle with my scene, but once I got that right, i felt pretty comfortable working through the rest of it.

Once I finished modeling, I finished texturing in Substance painter and Photoshop too for some specific cases such as the bottle labels and the frosted glass effect.

I originally wanted to render it in Arnold but unfortunately my PC couldn't handle it, which is why I switched to Blender for the lighting and rendering using the cycles render engine. Finally I brought my scene into Nuke to comp in a background and add some minor quality of life adjustments to make it look a bit more full of life. It was a great experience to learn how to light and manage such a busy scene and make it all come together like it did. I will keep pushing this as much as I can even in the future and try to make it look better.