“Making of Cafe ” by Tiziano Fioriti
About the author:
Tiziano Fioriti was born May 6th, 1986 in a small town in Central Italy. After attending the senior high school specializing in science education in Gualdo Tadino (Umbria, Italy) he went to the Faculty of Industrial Design at Florence University; however all he knows about Computer Graphics is rigorously self-taught.See more: www.tizianofioriti.com
Introduction
When I went to France on April 2005 on my high school trip, I bought different postcards to send them to my family and friends. Accidentally I forgot to post one of them so I brought it home. It represented the Cafe de Flore of Paris, the famous café of french existentialists and artists.I liked a lot and so I decided to realize it with computer graphics techniques and instruments.
I just wanna say “thanks” to my old pc: a Pentium 4 processor with a Radeon 9800pro and only 512 mb ram memory. For the realization I used 3ds max 7 and Vray Advanced 1.46. A great post-production process was possible with a Wacom Graphic Tablet. I have Intuos 2 A4 format.
Modeling
When you decide to realize an image like this, you have to know that the modeling part is the simplest.
All the objects of the scene are modelled in Max with polygonal instruments. The coffee mug, the saucers, the glasses and the fluids were created with lathe tool and then converted to editable polys for texturing.The eggs are simple geospheres with a lot of subdivisions.
The woman drawing is a simple editable spline converted to editable polys and then distorted with FFD 4x4x4 modifier. The table is a primitive cilinder converted and modified as editable polys.
Texturing
The scene is embeded in various complex vray materials. We’ll begin from the simplest.My drawing is as diffuse and a texture created in Photoshop as bump (with value of 80).The coffee mug has a texture created in Photoshop (simulating porcelain) as diffuse, a clear gray color (R211, G211, B211) in Reflect slot and fresnel reflection activated.
The pills are a Multi/Sub-Object material with two Vray embedded materials ;both have Reflect slot with a gray near white color (R228, G228, B228) and fresnel reflection activated.
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