INTRODUCTION
Hello, my title is Ethan. I am from China however at the moment learning for a Grasp of Automotive Design in Valencia, Spain. My journey with Blender began round 2020 throughout my ultimate 12 months in college as an industrial design scholar. Like most Blender customers, I am self-taught.
In addition to modeling or rendering design tasks, Blender additionally helps me inform tales in methods I may by no means dream of with simply drawings.
INSPIRATION
The unique mission was a faculty project geared toward designing a proposal for a famend Spanish furnishings firm known as Actiu. I will go away the detailed design processes for anybody on my Behance web page.
Though the schedule was unbearably hectic, I could not resist the chance to make a brief video to current the ultimate work. Nevertheless, the end result wasn’t satisfying to me as a result of rushed deadline. So right here we’re, 2 years later in 2023, revisiting my imaginative and prescient with extra data in each Blender and filmmaking.
DESIGN
The primary focus of the design is to offer consolation and a non-public house for the office the place you possibly can both proceed working or take a breather.
PREPRODUCTION
The modeling was executed largely in Blender utilizing a non-destructive workflow (no less than, that was my intention). To realize the life like fabric particulars, I turned to Marvelous Designer.
The textures primarily come from Quixel Megascan, which offers hundreds of 4k high-quality photo-scanned property. Some easy textures, just like the steel, had been created inside Blender.
The set was modeled based mostly on an organization the place I did a 6-month internship.
Some modifications needed to be made for higher lighting and digital camera positioning.
The temper was set by the distinction between a cloudy, drizzling day on the workplace and the nice and cozy, steamy espresso positioned subsequent to the soft-looking lounge chair that’s the protagonist of the movie.
I drew tough storyboards to plan the photographs that emphasize the idea, together with a really shallow depth of discipline, low distinction imagery, and nearly sleepy handheld digital camera motion, all of which elevate the consolation degree.
PRODUCTION
The raindrop is solely a procedural texture made by the 3D artist Amin Missaoui, which you’ll obtain totally free right here.
The steam of the espresso was rendered in a separate file that was imported as a billboard texture as a consequence of {hardware} limitations.
The droplets had been hand-animated utilizing Blender’s metaball function as a result of my laptop computer could not afford a correct fluid sim (and the droplets solely seem in just a few frames with movement blur, so it would not matter that a lot).
Right here is the animation of the droplets:
The leaf wiggling was the trickiest a part of this mission as a result of it concerned a comfortable physique simulation and armature-driven animation.
Nevertheless, it isn’t that totally different from the identical mechanism utilized in some hair or tentacles animation workflow.
For the buttons, I named this shot, Buttonflies, for an apparent purpose 🙂
Right here is the preview of the shot within the viewport:
And right here is the rendered shot:
POST- PRODUCTION
If you happen to’re conversant in Eevee, you understand how difficult it may be to attain the primary rack focus shot by way of the wet window. The trick is within the compositing, and on this case, I used Davinci Resolve.
Other than that, I composited the espresso steam and added anamorphic lens results similar to distortion and lens flares, vignette, and movie grain, adopted by the colour correction and grading course of.
MIMO, AN OFFICE LOUNGE CHAIR FILM
Thanks for studying my article. I hope you will have an awesome day!
In regards to the Artist
Ethan, a filmmaker from China. An artist who’s making an attempt to be a filmmaker however has been held up by his profession in design. However who mentioned you possibly can’t do all of them without delay?
