James Steeples

About the work

For my project, I was tasked to make a 3D object and texture it to make it fit with a photo.

This project involved a plethora of hurdles to get over the main one matching the object to the picture.

Not one of the smartest of decisions but I decided to learn substance painter within the last few weeks of the project. Although I feel like the risk paid off, I definitely bit off more than I could chew. Not only did I have a lot of texturing and other fun stuff to get done, but I was also tasked to capture the backplate and create an HDRI which was something I had never done before.

I packed up all the equipment and headed off to my grandma’s garage. I took all my photos and got everything working with the 3D model. After I had textured and lined everything up, I then lit the scene using the HDRI that I captured on set and used additional lights to capture more detail. I then rendered out different passes so I could fine tune it in nuke and ended up with a final result.