Tasty Beef Ramen!

MoP

Hello again, old friends... It has been a long time since I posted any art here!

I've kinda fallen off the art bandwagon recently (closest I got to anything released recently was some modelling in Gears Ultimate, and a bit of texture work in Gears 4 MP), and since then I've been mainly working on game prototypes in VR, quick blockouts, C# and Python code.

So this morning I woke up and thought I'd take a crack at something that would work well in VR - and since I've been watching a bunch of "Chef's Table" on Netflix recently, I thought it'd be fun to try and make people salivate over virtual food...

Here's where I'm at now - a couple of Mental Ray renders from different camera angles. I'm using this as a "ground truth" of where I'd like to get it in real-time. Thinking of targeting SketchFab or Marmoset at the moment so I'll probably end up baking all lighting anyway.





This is all obviously just blockout at the moment, with simple color materials applied in Maya:


And a quick time-lapse of some lighting / materials and layouts I was playing with this evening:


Trying to be reasonably structured with this, so my process is:

1. Block out everything in Maya, including rough materials (this is the current stage - I still need to add noodles & coriander!)
2. Take key elements into ZBrush for sculpting & polypainting (meat, eggs, chillis, probably the bowl too)
3. Reassemble resulting meshes in Maya and bake individual elements down
4. Optimise and bake entire scene down for display in SketchFab or Marmoset

If this all goes well, I think I'll try to do a little series of tasty dishes and make a VR scene in Unity or UE4 to display them all in an appropriate restaurant environment.

Crits & feedback welcome, of course!
Cheers,
-MoP

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MoP

Going for realistic, at least initially. There's already plenty of stylised art in the VR space. I'm interested in seeing how people react to detailed, realistic assets in VR.
I might still end up stylising it some way, but we'll see how it ends up

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Vailias

Oh hey Mop! Been ages. 
It will be interesting to see where you go with the materials. 
Currently it all reads like plastic, or flat illustration. Composition is cool though and would be really neat to see in a VR/AR setting. 

goodmelody491

looks good overall! One thing I would change is the color of the pork/meat


I think making it brown would look more natural since it's in something hot/boiling.
You can add dark brown ridges on the side as an option but since you're going for simple, then just make it light brown or somewhere in between.