Viostudio

The idea for “Still life with black pepper” came about after an idea my wife, Sofia, and I had to create a picture with a lot of different textures and materials. I wanted to pose the super-task myself. As such, only the most difficult-to-make and most interesting objects were chosen. After viewing a ton of professional still life photos, I collected a number of reference images and began working. I started by modeling single objects before I finished the composition and sketch. This method meant models were created and edited throughout the evolution of this piece thereby skipping detailed overview of modeling stage.

The making of “Still life with black pepper” by Daniil Alikov

Enjoy this is a 12-minutes featurette with behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, talks about the story, the characters and the environments, shot breakdowns and much more : the Art of making a short film!

by Sebastien Laban and Virginie Goyons

This is a tutorial for lighting an interior scene using Vray render. I don’t want to get into details of modeling or texturing or lightinf of an architectural scene. I only want to underline some details about lighting a particular scene. The aim is to outline one particular workflow for setting up lighting with Vray and should be viewed only as a guide for approaching similar interior scenes.

Lighting in the 3D industry is an art. There are many ways of lighting a scene. I like to control each one of the lights that are in the scene. For this reason I start from darkness setting lights one by one until I get the desired result. This kind of lighting method allows us to keep track of how each light contributes to the scene, before adding new ones. This also avoids having any unnecessary lights in the scene, that may cause unexpected results or increase render times.

We will start with Sky light, then add Sun light and finish with additional fill lights if required.
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