Kitchen

Whats your drink?

This is the second in my series of recreating a scene from an image I found online. This one is of a nice kitchen bar. I really enjoyed working on this project. I think it came together quite well at the end and I think I was able to match the colour palette really well.

For this project I tried a piece of software called fSpy to create a virtual camera for me, rather than trying to eyeball the shot myself. I’ve never used this software before but it was pretty intuitive and worked to give me a good result.

One I had my primary camera set up, I created a few additional cameras to help me model everything precisely to scale. I had my main render camera which was cropped to the same aspect ratio as the reference (although I aimed to reframe the shot for the final render), a second camera that was able to zoom and pan around the scene but maintain the same perspective, and a third general camera just to get in close during modelling.

I blocked out the main objects of the scene using simple geometry to get everything in the right place. From there I went into each individual piece and added detail until the entire set began to come together.

Anywhere I had to guess what the real geometry was I tried to look up the products online, mainly the fridges as I wanted to get the material and design of them as close as possible to reality.

Most of the textures are procedural, I created a few fake beer and wine labels and found a similar image for the little painting behind the sink and the watercolour on the wall.

For me the trickiest part of the project was the leather chairs with the stitching on top. I did look into how to procedurally generate such an effect and I have some resources saved for if I ever have to do such a thing again, but as this was just a one off I just did it all by hand.

I got the colours and general lighting as close as possible to my reference image and then took the rendered raw file into lightroom as an experiment in whether I could use that to colour grade it to match. To be honest I knew I could do it in Nuke or Photoshop but I’ve never taken a render into Lightroom before and was curious. I think it works really well!

As always, a tidy scene file, is a happy scene file!