Product Presentation Workflow

2h 46mIntermediate2017-12-06

Authors

Zaheer Mukhtar

3D Graphics Designer, Visual Effects Artist, Film Director

Course details

Explore a complete process for creating a stylish product presentation. In this course, Zaheer Mukhtar walks through a product presentation workflow, demonstrating how to tackle modeling, create lights and materials, and composite render passes. He begins by showing how to quickly model your scene assets. He then shows how to create realistic materials and textures for the different models, set up V-Ray renderer, make further adjustments to the lights, set up render passes, and composite your renders in Adobe Photoshop. Plus, he shows how to add details to your renders to make them more visually interesting, and color correct objects.

Learning objectives
Setting up shortcuts for the user interface
Creating the basic lights
Reviewing the basics of V-Ray material
Compositing render passes in Photoshop
Adjusting materials
Adding background elements
Color correcting objects
Using PixelSquid models

Skills covered

3ds MaxPhotoshopAutodesk3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and IllustrationOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Modeling Scene Assets

04 - Setting up the UI and shortcuts
05 - Creating the bottle shape
06 - Creating cap and sticker for bottle
07 - Creating juice inside the bottle
08 - Modeling the glass
09 - Modeling juice inside the glass
10 - Modeling the full orange
11 - Modeling the half orange
12 - Creating the leaf
13 - Creating the bud for the orange

2. Creating Lights and Materials

14 - Creating the basic lights
15 - Understanding basics of V-Ray material
16 - Continuing with V-Ray material
17 - Creating the juice material
18 - Creating the glass material
19 - Creating the bottle juice material
20 - Creating the orange material
21 - Modeling and texturing an orange slice
22 - Assigning materials to the floor and leaf

3. Compositing Render Passes in Photoshop

23 - Setting up HDRI file
24 - Setting up V-Ray and lights
25 - Adjusting materials
26 - Setting up render passes
27 - Compositing renders in Photoshop
28 - Adding background elements
29 - Adjusting render passes
30 - Color correcting objects
31 - Using PixelSquid models

Conclusion

32 - Important notes