Tall Stack of Waffles - Stylized Handpainted Prop

Final Turntable Render in Blender using EEVEE.

Final Render, with powdered sugar and outline materials added.

Final Render, with powdered sugar and outline materials added.

Final Material and Lighting setup

Texture painting pass with preliminary lighting

Texture painting pass with preliminary lighting

Work in Progress - on the left is the render preview, in the middle is the reference image created by me, using Midjourney, and on the right is the 3D model blockout in object preview. I'm very happy with the progress so far.

Work in Progress - on the left is the render preview, in the middle is the reference image created by me, using Midjourney, and on the right is the 3D model blockout in object preview. I'm very happy with the progress so far.

Tall Stack of Waffles - Stylized Handpainted Prop

As my final portfolio project at Full Sail, I have decided to create a Food focused hero Prop and supporting scene, in a semi-realistic stylized PBR with hand-authored texture detail. As part of this process.

The inspiration for this work is “AI Slop: Food Porn” on Pinterest. I came across this ‘genre’ by accident, but I quickly became enamored by the styles and the sheer volume of the images. They are marvelous, and beautiful, and in stunning colors. I became excited at the idea of translating them into 3D – then the added dimension of depth and animation.

The scene is modeled, sculpted, texture painted, and rendered in Blender (EEVEE), with minor sculpt refinements in ZBrush.

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