The House Witch - Book Cover Recreation

Below is the process for recreating the book cover for "The House Witch" written by Delemhach in Blender.

I used this personal project as a means of re-learning how to use blender as I haven't used it in many years now.

The first step was to add in my reference and block out the scene.

Then I created the individual assets in separate files to be appended/linked to the main file.
I would aim to complete one asset a night (modelling and texturing) about 1-4 hours each with approximately 30 assets in total.

Finally, I fixed the camera dimensions, added in lighting, and animation effects (fire, pouring tea, magic wind, cat). Then it was time to render.

I wanted to create a simple render that gave off the same feeling as a cinemagraph. Something calm and repetitive.